Below are some suggestions of activities for kids to do while at home.  Feel free to use what works for you and your family!

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• PBS Kids Daily for free resources for kids and daily e-mails are available with activities, tips, and videos.

• Set a schedule. It can be helpful to have school work and chores around the home first, followed by play and free time.  Create a visual checklist for kids to use and mark when they've accomplished goals.

  • Some may find it helpful to have a weekly schedule, such as Saturday mornings is for cleaning, Friday night is game night, etc.

• Make dinner interesting:

  • Play restaurant for dinner

  • Involve your kids in planning and cooking

  • Use candles, decorate placemats, create name placards

• One night have a slumber party, sleep all together in one room, create a tent to sleep under.

• Read!

  • Fill the tub with blankets and pillows for a reading party

• Rubbings - you can rub many items such as leaves, puzzle pieces, coins, feathers. 

  • Place a few items in a sealed mystery envelope and have kids figure out what is in it by rubbing on top with a crayon.

• Homemade play dough

• Homemade slime

• Painting

  • For an art project with less cleanup use a whiteboard and markers

• Create collages with old magazines and newspapers

  • Make a vision board

• Dig for worms

• Plan a family garden

• Start a compost collection

• Make sock puppets or paper-bag puppets and put on a play

• Play salon - give your children haircuts, manicures/pedicures, massages

• Dance party

• Begin a journal of what you observe in your neighborhood.  Who do you see, what birds or bugs, trees, pinecones etc.?

• Put together a sensory bin

• Phone calls to relatives and friends

• Make origami

• Make tissue paper flowers

• Yoga

• Home workouts - push-ups, sit-ups, wall pushes, jumping jacks, etc.

• Write poetry or a story

• Create a large box fort

• Make friendship bracelets

• Make candles

• Make letters in shaving cream

• Bake cookies and decorate them

• Blow bubbles

• Make butter

• Make paper airplanes

• Document with a camera what you see outside or on a walk

• Virtual field trips

  • Cincinnati Zoo

  • 12 Famous Museums

• Family movie night

• Organize family photos, make a scrap book (digital or physical)

Games for Younger Kids:

• Red Light/Green Light

• Hide and Go Seek

• Rhyming Games

• Simon Says

• Board Games - Trouble, Candy Land

• Card Games - Memory, Go Fish

• "I Spy" in the home or on a walk

• Sing-a-longs

• Freeze dance

Games for Older Kids:

• Board Games - Monopoly, Clue, Sorry

• Card Games - Old Maid, Spoons

• Crossword puzzles

• Charades

• Coloring pages