Activities for the Whole Family
- Bring out the board games
- Card games
- Need new ideas for games? Here is a quick list to reference including game instructions
- Follow a Lego Challenge
- Take a virtual tour of a museum
- Bake something
- Write a letter/email to a different friend or family member everyday
- Race in the backyard
- Try hopping on one foot, crabwalk, walking backwards
- Playdough
- Play a game in which everyone tries to guess what the artist is making
- Make stop motion animation videos
- Alternate who picks the movie for the family to watch together
- Origami (YouTube is a good resource for How-To Videos)
- Read to your pets
- Puzzles
- Organize a room
- Write a story cooperatively
- Have one person develop the character, another choose the setting, and so on.
- Yoga
- Obstacle course using furniture
- Scavenger hunts, indoor treasure hunts where kids follow clues through the house to a "treasure" at the end (could be candy, a movie, whatever)
- Charades
- Do a study on planets, then have the kids create their own planets- how big is it, where in the universe is it located, atmosphere conditions, can it sustain life, how long is a day/year, name it, etc.
- Balloon ball
- Don’t let the balloon hit the ground!
- Categories
- One person suggests a category and everyone takes turns listing something that fits under that category. No repetitions allowed.
- Exercise
- Follow a 15-30 minute video
- Have each person suggest a different exercise (jumping jacks, sit-ups)
- Sound Ball
- Everyone stands in a circle. One member begins by “throwing a sound” to another member in the group. That member must repeat the sound as they catch it and throw a new sound to someone else in the group.
- Take a deeper look at art and visit places around the world using Google Arts and Culture
Activities for the Younger Ones
- Have a mini dance party
- Printable dot-to-dot activity pages
- Pretend to host a cooking show as you make something together
- Shadow puppet show
- Use old cardboard boxes to make homes for dolls/action figures
- “Paint” the fence with water