- Read to your child and talk about the story.
- Listen to a story
- Ask them to retell the story
- Read poems and practise saying them
- Sort your story books by colour/alphabet/theme
- Draw a picture of your favourite story
- Read to a doll/pet
- Learn some jokes and tell them to your family
- Colour in a picture
- Draw a picture
- Make your own storybook
- Write clues for a treasure hunt. Take turns to find the objects.
- Reminisce - look through old photos (on phone/device or old albums). Talk about what was happening in the pictures and remember how you felt when it was taken.
- Jigsaws
- Baking
- Gardening
- Build with lego
- Board games
- Make patterns with natural objects. Stone, leaf, stick, stone … etc
- Build, balance with nature objects - stone towers, stick teepees
- Go on an eye spy hunt
- Sort your toys by a similar group and say why you have grouped them that way. Type, colour, size, etc
- Compare the estimated weight of any household objects -eg. a chair and a pillow, a toothbrush and a frying pan, a toothbrush and a spoon etc - make guesses - which one will be heavier etc - talk about their guesses and comparisons
- Collect 20 items from around the house - sort them from lightest to darkest colour, biggest to smallest,
- Collect items from your garden and make a collage/picture/art
- Draw outside using chalk
- What can you make out of things you can find at home?
- Play a board game or make a board game
- Create your own board game rules
- Card games
- Music and songs
- Design an obstacle course and ask everyone to have a go.