Warwick Farm PS Wellbeing for Students and Families

Do Something!

You may have already heard someone in your family complain that they are bored. On this page we will be posting ideas to keep everyone entertained.

Creative Kids

Have you used your creative kids voucher? You can use vouchers for buying creative activity packs for your child. Click on the logo to find out more information and links to providers that you can order from.

Play A Game!

Here are some dice and card games that you can play. Let your teacher or Mrs Williams know if you have played any. Which one is you favourite? Did you make any changes to make it more interesting?

Card and Dice games

Recipes for Kids to Cook

Get Cooking!

Here are some recipes for you to try with your family. If you are usually the cook in family try and take a step back and let the younger family members step up and take on some cooking and kitchen cleaning responsibilities. Here's your chance to teach them the right was to do it.

This Sunday is Father's Day!

Take some time on Sunday to say thanks for being awesome to your Dad, Pop, Grandfather, Uncle, Older Brother or male person in your life that cares for you. You may like to make a craft for them, below are some craft ideas.

If you have some paint and large paper you might like to make a print of your grown-up’s favourite shoe (or the grown-up’s foot, if it’s not going to be a surprise) and a child’s footprint. Use complimentary colours or favourite colours. You may need to stick two pieces of paper to fit a large shoe. Don’t forget to date the artwork.

If you have some rocks in your garden you could create these fun punny paperweights. You could use permanent markers or paints to create pictures of your grown-up.

If you like Star Wars and puns, try this craft. Paint green onto your hand and brown onto your fingers to create Yoda’s head and body. Then add in green ears and details in black pen. Caption your card with Yoda Best!

Use Duplo (they are bigger and have more room to write), Lego or other building blocks to create a ‘Building Memories with my Grown-Up’ sculpture. Write the activity or memory on three sides and the date that you created the memory on the fourth side (or leave blank if you haven’t done the activity yet).

Need some inspiration for things to Do?

Here's a list of 65 things to do. You can try some of these or use them for ideas to come up with your own activities to do around your home.

Get Outside!

Unfortunately during a lockdown we can't practice developing our social skills with other people. We can, however work on some different skills that will help we can all get back together.

Enjoy the Easter Holidays!

There are plenty of things to do around Liverpool and Sydney during the Easter Holidays!

Visit the Museum of Contemporary Art.

General admission is free and there are many beautiful artworks right next to Sydney Harbour!

The Royal Botanical Gardens

Visit the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Mount Annan or The Blue Mountains.

The Australian Museum

The Australian Museum has free entry for General Admission. The museum has been refurbished and there is always something interesting to learn and discover there!

The Powerhouse Museum

The Powerhouse Museum near Darling Harbour is a fun day out with lots of interactive displays. General Admission is free.

Sydney Observatory

Between 10am and 4:30pm the Observatory in The Rocks has interactive displays on the history of timekeeping and our night skies.

Sydney National Parks

There are many beautiful National Parks around Sydney. Many have walking trails and other activities. There are fees for parking cars in the Parks.

Celebrating Halloween

Are you celebrating Halloween with you family this year? It's still important to stay COVID Safe while you are having fun.

Advice From NSW Health:

Trick-or-treating?

If your children are trick-or-treating this Halloween, remember to have fun in a COVID-safe way:

Carry hand sanitiser with you and use it often.
Stay in small groups under 20 people.
Keep 1.5 metres away from other households.
Use a disposable bag for trick-or-treating and throw it out afterwards.
Stay local, avoid crowded ‘treat streets’.
Only accept treats that are individually wrapped.
Don’t share your treats with others from different households.

Handing out treats?

If you are giving out treats this Halloween:

Hang individually wrapped treats on your fence or gate, or put them on a tray outside your house.
Organise a treasure hunt outside to avoid people coming to your house.
Get creative and build a ‘lolly chute’ so you can stay 1.5 metres apart from trick-or-treaters.

Help us stop the spread of COVID-19 this Halloween and always remember to:

keep 1.5 metres apart
practise good hand hygiene
stay home and get tested immediately if you’re unwell
wear a face mask if you’re unable to physically distance.

A Halloween Game from Bluey

If you would still like to have some Halloween fun but you also want to stay home, here is a game from the Bluey website:

Have Your Own Spooky Bluey Scavenger Hunt At Home!

All you need to do is:

Download and print the template – if you dare!
Colour in all the spooktacular dress-up outfits
Hide the character cards all around your home and get your friends and family to find them*

*Bonus points to the person who finds Franken-Rusty first!

Halloween-Cards.pdf

spider-mindfulness-exercise.pdf

Halloween Mindfulness

If the little monsters in your house have had too many lollies or just too much excitement, try calming things down with some mindfulness. Using slow, deep breathing follow the pattern on the Spider Mindfulness Exercise.

Lots of Activities to Choose From

Here are some activities that you could modify for your home. They require little or no equipment.

Get Busy With Lego!

This 30 day challenge can give you ideas of things to make each day. If you don't have Lego, you could use any building or construction material. Just don't forget to tidy the up at the end of each day.

The Lego Website is also posting regular challenges for families to build: https://www.lego.com/en-us/letsbuildtogether

Send your teacher a photo of the awesome creation you make!

Have You Been Watching Lego Masters?

Here's the to the Lego Masters website, where you can get tips on how you could make some awesome builds: https://9now.nine.com.au/lego-masters/lego-home-build-tutorial-tips/c55ad066-d72f-4c84-8280-470a7075da0b

Have you seen Brickman's creations? Here's a link to his website: https://www.thebrickman.com/

Draw Bluey

Is there a Bluey or Bingo fan at your house? Here's a step-by-step guide for drawing Bluey characters. https://www.bluey.tv/blog/draw-along-with-bluey/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-email-_-Bluey_Newsletter_BL009_04052020-_-email&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=Bluey_Newsletter_BL009_04052020

Go Old School -

Have you tried creating shadow puppets? What about string games? Ask a family member if they remember how to create using shows and string!

Create Some Art

While the family is together you could make an art work. It’s a lovely sentiment and you will be able to remember how tiny your children’s hands once were. Caption it in your home language.

Do Some Chores

Okay, maybe not everyone in the house will be excited by this suggestion, but we know that Warwick Farm students are STARS at home and at school. Remember you can show that you are STARS Leading the way by:
Show Pride - show that you care for your home, your family and yourself!
Take Responsibility - look after your home and your things!
Active Learning - learn how to do a new chore!
Respect - give respect to everyone at home and online!
Safe - complete your chores safely, keep social distancing and wash your hands!

Here is a suggested list of chores for different ages:

COVID-19_Chores for Kids.pdf

Learn to Draw

Learn to draw Disney characters. Artists from Disney Studios take you through lessons on drawing different characters. Lessons are between about 10-20 minutes long.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflf8xbnbx65Z2oa2F9uqKZxJJn-4Nynr

How about a little culture?

The UK’s National Theatre is live streaming a production every week. Each production is free to view and available for about a week: https://www.instagram.com/sirpatstew/?hl=en

This is probably one for the parents but here is Patrick Stewart (Jean Luc Picard from Star Trek) reading Shakespear’s sonnets on his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sirpatstew/?hl=en

The Sydney Opera House has a variety of videos and podcasts that you can enjoy from home: https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/digital.html

Looking for some theatre for the youngest of our young audiences? The egg productions at Theatre Royal Bath in the UK are streaming two of their productions for free:

For the little ones - SNOW MOUSE https://vimeo.com/204511734

For the slightly older ones (age 7+) - I WISH I WAS A MOUNTAIN https://vimeo.com/401349317

Pick an Activity -

There's no way you can be bored with all of these fun things to do....

Create a Rube Goldberg Machine

Do you know what a Rube Goldberg machine is? Have a look at the links below. It's fun to watch them and maybe you could have a go at building one at home. They can be as simple or as complicated as you would like. Take a photo or video of your machine working. If it doesn't work the first time, what do you need to adjust? Ask before you use things to build things and put everything back when you're done!

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/cookie-dunking-machine-sprice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NxByoZSD-Q

Do you enjoy Harry Potter and puzzles?

Try this Harry Potter themed virtual escape room:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflNxNM0jzbZJjUqOcXkwhGTfii4CM_CA3kCxImbY8c3AABEA/viewform

Offline Activities

Here are more suggestions for activities that you can modify for your family that do not need a screen:

This Sunday is Mother's Day

Don't forget to surprise your Mum/Nana/Grandma/Aunty/other important female in your life with a little something. If you aren't able to give them a card or a craft from you, talk to them and let them know that they are special to you. You might like to have a look at any paper and craft supplies you have at home and see what you are inspired to make. Here are just three sites that have some ideas:

https://mumcentral.com.au/mothers-day-crafts/

https://www.thebestideasforkids.com/mothers-day-crafts-for-kids/

https://www.personalcreations.com/blog/mothers-day-kids-craft-ideas

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