General Activities

These are additional ideas which you can choose to do.   Some have already been on the blog but I thought they’d be easier to find if they were together on a page.

I hope you enjoy some of them and let me know how you get on.  

Art

Art – Create a self portrait

Art using natural and found materials

Art – cutting and sticking

Art – creating rubbings

Take your pencil for a walk

Make a paper plate bird

Make a symmetrical butterfly

Building/Modelling

Build a house for an animal

Make a space ship from recycled materials

Make a bug hotel

Tea party

Make the tallest tower

Build a bridge for a toy

Build a pyramid

Exploring/Measuring

Sorting toys by their materials

Exploring colour mixing

Floating and Sinking

Researching and sharing

Carry out a puff test

Carry out a bird survey

Helping around the home

Preparing Meals

Sorting laundry

Washing toys

Sorting recycling

Tidying up and daily jobs

Make your own lunch

Sorting and tidying shoes

Make believe play

Create a road system

Create an animal rescue centre

Role play a shop

Role play a school

Create a tiny/fairy garden

Create a cafe

Go camping

Movement

Exercise circuits

Dancing to music

Keep the balloon off the floor

Action rhymes with hands and fingers

Fine motor skills

Make an egg box bird feeder

 

Games      

Communicating

Sensory Play

Heads, bodies and legs

Pick up sticks

Which cup?

Memory game

Learn and tell jokes

Learn and perform an action song

Make and use a cup telephone

Make a box of happy things

Create a positive message for your window

Make a sensory bottle

Make a musical instrument

Blowing bubbles

Exploring a mystery object in a bag

Freeing frozen toys

 

Rainbow activities 

Rainbow Skewered Fruit

Outdoor Rainbow Treasure Hunt

Building Bricks Rainbow

Rainbow Slime

Rainbow Bubble Snake

Make a Rainbow

 

Making memories

Choose Objects to Put in a Time Capsule Activity

Wellbeing Craft – Things To Look Forward To

Weekly Home Learning Diary

My Day

 

 

Outside fun

mini beast hunt

plant and flower hunt

Make a mini beast hotel

Make a magic wand

build a boat

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2020/05/nature-activities-for-kids-to-do-at-home-part-6/

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2020/03/kids-nature-activities-self-isolation/

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Mini Topics

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Scottish Wildlife

fairy tales

Spring

dinosaurs

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