Make a musical instrument out of things that your family no longer need. Make sure that it is clean and you are allowed to use it. You can use things like cardboard boxes or rolls, plastic containers. Can you make different musical notes that sound high or low?

Make a rap, or a song or a poem, about how it feels to be in lockdown and at home each day.

Draw an animal you would like as a pet. This can be an imaginary animal or real creature. Draw arrows to parts of your animal and label them, especially if they do really special things. For example your animal might have magical toenails that do something really fantastic!! Tell us what they do.

Learn your essential words. Get someone to say the words and see how many you can write in 10 minutes. See how many words you can write in one sentence.

Can you tie your shoelaces? By the time we get back to school see how fast you can do it. The challenge is on!!

Night sky star spotting; choose a clear night when you can see the stars. Can you pick out some interesting shapes in the sky? Can you spot the stars that make the shape of the Southern Cross?

Junk modelling: Get a clean plastic tray or box out of the recycling and fill it with sand or dirt or bark from the garden. Use old paper and twigs from plants to make your own flowers and design your own mini garden. If you have any little toys you can add them to your garden or make a little forest by making trees.

Make a mini town: Inside a small cardboard box or a plastic tray design a mini town. Draw roads, streets and a park. Make sure you have some essential buildings like a supermarket, a petrol station, a chemist. What other buildings are important for your family? If you want, or you have little boxes, you can pretend these are buildings. OR

Inside a small cardboard box or plastic tray design a mini Rainbow’s End or amusement park. Plan out where you would put your rides like a water slide ride or a Ferris wheel. Can you design a roller coaster?

Try looking at the San Diego Zoo website for kids. Lots of webcam animal views, info and activities. Well worth a look. https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/videos

Organise an indoor scavenger hunt. Write a list of things the players have to find. For example: an elastic band, a spoon, something to write with, something black, a sock, something round, a piece of jewellery.

Find a box to use as a letter box. Each day draw a picture or write a sentence about something you have done that you enjoyed. Post them into your box to save so you can read them or share with people later on.

Practise writing the names of everybody in your household such as your brothers and sisters. Find out how to spell their names correctly and how old they are. Write each person's age beside their name. Can you write everyone’s name without help?

Write a letter to someone you would like to see but haven't been able to talk to or visit recently. This can be a friend or a person in your family. Tell them what you do each day. What is the best part of everybody being at home? What was the best thing that your family has done? What do you miss about school and your teacher? Post your letter if you can.

Write nice little notes to people in your family. If you don't have any paper, use the backs of packets/boxes etc that your family was going to throw into the recycling. Hide the notes somewhere they will find them. Ask them to reply to you if they have time.

Learn to say the days of the week in order. Then learn to write them all.

Learn to say the months of the year in order. Then learn to write them.

Playlist: create an alphabet playlist.

• • Decide on 5 letters of the alphabet and find some songs with titles that begin with these letters.

  • You can also make up a playlist of songs that start with the letters of your name.

Sequence story: draw 5 pictures in order that show what happens first, what happens second, what happens next...

• • For example, if you are allowed to make a cup of tea or toast or if you have seen someone do these jobs, draw what you or the person did first. Then draw a second picture showing what was done next. Do this until you have done 5 things to get the job done.

  • If you have scissors, cut around each little drawing. Mix them up and give them to someone in your family to see if they can put them into the right order.

Make a map: Pretend you are a bird and you can look down at a room in your house. Draw a map of your room. If you made a little garden or forest in a box, can you draw a map of this for your toy so it won’t get lost.

House rhymes: look around your home and choose something you can see, for example a plate. Can you think of 3 words that rhyme with plate? gate/ late/date

• • Play a game with your family. Take it in turns for each person to think of a rhyming word until you run out of words that rhyme.

  • Choose a topic - animals or sport for example. Draw up a grid and make a word find, keep a list of the words you have put in it. Ask someone in your family to solve it.

Design a superhero costume for your pet/the school pet/your friend's pet. Maybe you can add things to your costume so your pet can do really fantastic things.

Shadow shapes: Turn off your light and close your curtains. Use a torch or the light on your phone and use your hands to make shadow shapes on the walls.

• • How many different animal shapes can you make?

  • Can you make up a story about your animal character?

  • Think of a name and a place that it lives.

  • Does it have any special qualities like superheroes have?

Position word cards. Think about words that describe the position of things, for example on/in/under/beside/through/above/below.

• • Make little cards and on one side write the word. On the other side draw a picture that shows what the word means.

  • Show the picture side to people in your family to see if they can work out what the word is. These words are called prepositions.

Time: make a sundial. Before clocks and phones were invented people used a thing called a sundial to tell the time. Choose a long stick that you can put in the ground and choose a sunny day that you can see a shadow coming from the stick. Go out at different times to see where the shadow is.

Draw around your hand. Make the shape into an animal or book character. Play a game of opposites with someone. If they say up, you say down etc. Design a sticker you would like your teacher to stick on your exercise book.

Jigsaw placemat: draw a picture of what it looks like when you look through your window at home. When you have finished, take a photo of it on your device so people doing your jigsaw knows what it looks like. Print it and cut the print into pieces. Time yourself to see how long it takes to put it back together. Challenge other members of your family.

Sing some counting songs! Count to 10, count to 20! You could try counting to 100 with this vodeo - Let's get fit - count to 100