The opening of our new Family Support group in Hook has sadly been postponed due to the current public health situation.
However, our Group Co-ordinator Sarah has put together a fantastic list of home based activities for you to try with your children, many of which do not require any additional resources!
- Story books with toys as props
- Puppet play (sock puppets/ paper bags work just as well!)
- Write a story
- Bake some cakes
- Make up a dance routine/ new song
- Hide and seek
- Hide and seek (with toys)
- Make a castle out of cardboard boxes
- Paint rocks
- Cutting and sticking. Cut out pictures from magazines and make a scrap book/ collage of your favourite things
- Face painting, finger painting, leaf painting, painting with teabags
- Jelly play, cooked spaghetti play.
- Make your own musical instruments and sing nursery rhymes.
- Paper aeroplanes
- Make play-dough (heat on the hob 2 cups plain flour, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, ½ cup of salt, 2 tablespoons of cream of tartar (not essential) food colouring (optional)- it’s important to KEEP STIRRING whilst on the hob though!)
- Role-play- shops, hair salon, beauty salon, pet shop, dressing up
- Water play (fill bowl with water and add fairy liquid to make bubbles, add favourite toys to play with, plastic bottles to fill up and empty, add food colouring to make different coloured water)
- Sand play
- Fill a bowl / tray with pasta or rice to play with
- Shadow drawing of toy animals (place piece of paper on the floor next to animal and draw round the shadow)
- Have a picnic / tea party (inside or in the garden)
- Treasure hunt inside/ or in the garden (child finds hidden objects written down on a list)
- Den building inside / or in the garden
- Chalk painting in garden
- Painting with water in the garden
- Shadow drawing (use chalk to draw around body)
- Make an obstacle course
- Mud pies!
- Collect nature items within the garden
- Make stick men out of sticks (you could do this whilst listening to the Stickman story on Audible, which is currently free for children’s books www.audible.co.uk)
Why not try linking some of these ideas together to create a series of activities? You could pick a book you have at home (or listen to one on Audible) and make it your theme for the day or week – talk and write about what the characters did next, role play as the characters and draw them (especially fun if you’ve listened to the book on Audible as you can let the imagination run wild with what you think they might look like)!
We would love to hear how you get on working through this list!