I previously shared a post last year about ideas you could pop into a bucket during the summer holidays, mainly because the kids will at some point say mum i'm so bored give me ideas of things to do.
So we came up with a bucket and we wrote some fun things down on some lolly sticks (you can do this on paper or card) and when they tell me they are bored, that's when the bucket comes out and they can choose something.
I didn't want to reshare that post right now, because some of the things on that particular list involved leaving the house, and obviously right now we need to be avoiding unnecessary travel. So I have put together an indoor edition of ideas to at least try and keep the kiddies entertained during this difficult time.
Ideas
Picnic - In the garden or in the living room.
Arts & Crafts
Bake
Board Games
Read
Make Lemonade
Make Jelly
Create a comic strip
Go bug hunting (if you have a garden)
Puppet show
Magic show
Treasure hunt
Potato painting
Make your own board game
Hide & Seek
Plant some seeds and record the progress
Birdwatch
Watch a movie
Play a musical instrument
Research a topic and do a poster/fact file
Go for a walk (stick with government guidelines)
Origami
Build a den
Make playdough
Make salt dough
Make slime
Make your own short movie
Pasta jewellry
Tie dye some old shirts
Cloudwatch - what patterns can you see?
Have a bear hunt
Paint a story on stones
Science experiments
Chalk the garden
Make bird feeders
Make bug hotels
Make suncatchers
Write to penpals
Nerf gun wars
Lego challenge
Bottle bowling
Make a sock puppet
1 hour on video games
Write a poem
Make a bookmark
Do a jigsaw
Indoor obstacle course
Interview each other
Papier mache
Write a letter to the queen
Draw a picture for the residents of a local care home
Sort out your toys
Race your cars
Have a staring contest
Make magic wands
Draw each other
Alphabet challenge
Play catch
Write a song
I think the list above will keep you busy for a little while and you can always add in or take away things.