Can you build a picture of yourself using only LEGO bricks? All you need is a base plate and a handful of basic bricks. Make it as easy or complicated as your imagination wants.

There really are so many fun ways to play with LEGO besides building with LEGO sets. Though we love those too!

This LEGO parachute for a minifigure is an awesome indoor activity and a mini science lesson too.

Learning the alphabet doesn’t have to be boring and stressful! Here’s a fun and very simple way for your kids to practice building letters, tracing letters, and even writing letters. Can you build your name out of Lego?

Smiling Mind is a mindfulness meditation app developed by psychologists and educators. The website provides mindfulness information for parents and a link to the Smiling Mind app.

ARE YOU up for a challenge?

Do you love reading? Then why not join up for the Reading Challenge this year

Let your teacher know that you want to enter.

Once registered we'll give you a username and password as well as a list of books to read!!

You have until September to read your quota of books:

Prep - Year 2: 30 books (20 from the Challenge list)

Year 3-6: 15 books (10 from the Challenge list)

The Big Numbers Song

Teach your children to count from 0 to 100 and from a hundred to a trillion.

A warning for adults - it may get stuck in your head!

The NGV have turned some of their much loved collection items, museum galleries and iconic buildings into puzzles.

Select your level of difficulty and away you go!

Gratitude

Today try and think of three things that you are grateful.

• You can write down or verbalise 3 things that you were grateful.

• Before bed or at the dinner table share with your family the 3 things that you were grateful.

A game to play with a partner

Choose five things from around the house (that you are allowed to use) and place them on a tray.

Allow your partner one minute to look at all the objects.

Now cover the objects and ask your partner to turn away.

Now quietly remove an object and hide it from your partner.

Ask your partner to turn back and remove the cover.

They have to guess which object is missing.

Variations:

- add more objects

-instead of objects use words written on a card

(This helps to build visual memory)

Take a trip to Mars and see what you can find out and see.

Teach your parents about Mars.

The Zoo has set up 24/7 live-streaming cameras at Taronga Zoo Sydney so you can enjoy your favourite animals at any time of day.

If you can’t see them right now, check back a little later!

The Allen Adventure is a fun, interactive story about Allen, a young visitor from another planet, who is new to school and learning how to get on with his ne​w Earthling classmates.

The Allen Adventure explores social and emotional skills that children need to make friends, get on with others, and deal with difficult behaviour from other children. Each chapter involves a problem for Allen to solve and interactive elements for children.

The story gives you the chance to talk with your child about what to do in various social situations.

You can download The Allen Adventure app for iPad 2 or above and Android 2.2 or later. You can also watch the video version of The Allen Adventure (non interactive).

Please complete activities on Mathletics.

These activities have been set by your classroom teacher.

Sign in for Mathletics

Number pairs for 10.

This number pairs song engages students to demonstrate the number bonds for 10 with their fingers for active engagement and strengthening brain and body connections.

Number pairs are all the different combinations of numbers that compose a specific number.

The concept of number bonds is very basic, an important foundation for understanding how numbers work. A whole thing is made up of parts Learn all the different number pairs that add up to 10.

Number pairs for 10 may also be called friends of 10, Rainbow Numbers , number bonds for 10 and partners of 10 .

Knowing number pairs for each number builds math fluency for addition and subtraction.

WARNING TO PARENTS: this song may get stuck in your head!

Little J and Big Cuz Wombat Rex (episode 2)

Watch episode 2 which goes for about 12 minutes called Wombat Rex.

Tasks

Tell your family about what Big Cuz was trying to trick Little J into believing.

Write about what your favourite part and the message in the story?

NGV is committed to providing creative experiences for young people and their families. During this challenging time we hope to share new ways to be creative at home with our online resources. Research shows that drawing and making is a great way to help children relax and reduce feelings of anxiety.

Explore and choose from activity sheets and e-books for free things to do at home or school. Print or take inspiration with paper and pencils at hand. Transform the kitchen table into a table-top studio and turn potential boredom into productivity. Let’s get started!