Some ideas to keep your kids busy during coronavirus closures
- Create a daily schedule together (codzienny plan). Take turns being the one who decides what to do.
- Check some activities on the Internet, including a wide range of homeschooling and online learning sites.
- Create an “I’m bored” list. Each person writes ideas for what they can do when they get bored. Stick it on the fridge. Use it when you get bored.
- Board games like scrabble or just chess.
- Keep a daily journal.
- Bake a cake, cupcakes, cookies or cook a really special dish you have always wanted to try.
- Learn to make healthy snacks for after-school.
- Pick a favorite animal and research it. Create a fact sheet about it.
- Lego activity: Make a list of animals and buildings. Write them all down on individual pieces of paper and put them in a box. Each person draws one out and has to build it with Legos.
- Explore the arts, history and foreign places. Visit a museum! Check out the website of the museum you’ve always wanted to visit. Many have online exhibits.
- Take a walk at a nearby park, forest—just stay away from the playground equipment; try to find the highest tree, the biggest leaf, etc.
- Make origami animals and objects.
- Take a virtual tour of: for example Paris.
- Pick a sentence from a book. How many words can you make from the letters in the sentence?
- Build a house of cards.
- Create your own secret code. Write a letter to someone else in the code.
- Blow bubbles outside.
- Draw pictures outside with sidewalk chalk (kreda).
- Watch animals live on live zoo webcams across the world. Check out links to several zoos and other virtual field trips.
- Go camping with your tent in your garden.
- Use FaceTime, Skype, Zoom, Webex or Google Hangouts or another platform to video chat with a friend or relative.
