EXERCISE IDEAS

https://www.albioninthecommunity.org.uk/resources-and-downloads/

Keepie Uppies or headers (using a balloon)- film on your phone as proof - first to 100, 150,

200 etc. (there is a loo roll challenge on at the moment). Balloon volleyball is also good fun if

you have the right space

• Learn to juggle, cricket, penalty shootouts, rugby passing, circuit training with music etc.

Invent your own ball game

• Throwing and catching with tennis ball (1-2 hands; 1-1(right and left); clapping/touching

ground in between etc. Set time challenges.

• Trampoline workout/ create your own routine.

• Create your own obstacle course inside or outside

• Joe Wicks online PE Lessons every morning 9-10am. Sally Morgan is also putting on online 15

minute workouts

• Dance or Yoga workouts

• Make a golf course in the garden/house using cups and then play. You don’t have to use golf

clubs or balls, a cricket bat or hockey stick will do

• Use your imagination and recycling materials to make a fort/rocket/shop/anything you

choose

• Practice your hoola hooping or skipping, setting yourself targets

CRAFT IDEAS

• Make a rudimentary steam engine - it involves an old tin with lid, candle, cork, needle etc. and is

great fun

• Colour a sheet of paper with wax, mix black paint with washing up liquid and paint over. When dry

scrape the black off to reveal the wax colours against a black background

• Make ink mosaics

• Bark rubbings, coin rubbings, brass rubbings, wall rubbings. How many rubbings can you find (other

than rubbing up your sibling the wrong way)?

• Make Salt Dough or dough with Cream of Tartar (use food colouring to make different colours and

store in fridge - lasts ages)

https://www.familyeducation.com/fun/playdough/play-doh-recipes

• Fashion show - use what clothing and recycled materials you have in the house, create a catwalk

and produce a fashion show.

• 30 day Lego challenge (see below)

• Paper airplane competitions

• Create a menu for breakfast/tea/lunch and prepare the meal for your family. Lay the table like in a

restaurant - name your restaurant, fold the paper napkins in a fancy style etc.

• Blow up a balloon and use it as a base to make a Papier Mache puppet head or a piñata

• Put together a collage using magazines that are ready to throw away and any other materials ready

for the bin

• Finger painting or block printing using a potato or a sponge

• Learn how to sew or to knit

• Make a photo collage or photo album

OUTDOOR / GARDEN ACTIVITIES

• Fly a kite. This can be made out of sticks, an old dust sheet cut accordingly and string

• Make a pea shooter, a bow and arrow, a water bomb, a catapult, a bird feeder

• Observe the constellations with binoculars or telescope, or just with the naked eye

• Design and make a mini-garden on a tray or a home for mini-beasts or a wormery which can

then be populated

• Plant mustard seed or water cress

• Make perfume from petals (though these are in limited supply at this time of year)

• Build a nature table and learn how to identify common flowers, plants, trees and birds

FUN IDEAS

• Make a den in the garden or the house using cushions, the sofa and assorted tables and

sheets or make a fighter cockpit/spacecraft control room using the above or make a Teepee

Tent

• Make a 'phone' using two cans and some string or use walkie talkies to talk to friends, family

or neighbours

• Explore the attic

• Make a parachute for a toy and experiment with landings

• Play a board game or puzzle (chess, droughts, scrabble, monopoly, stratego bananagram).

Even better, devise and make your own board game

• Play cards: pairs memory game, ‘Shut the Box’ (which is good for mental addition), stacking

cards, Uno, Rummy, patience

• Make a 'potion' involving the dregs of any shampoo etc., leaves, soil, grass and food

colouring

• Devise your own treasure hunt or scavenger hunt or play hide and seek or sardines

• Learn/revise vocab in any language for food/drink (this might require a screen first) and then

hold a tea party - family members can only speak that language (whoever uses the most

English words does the clearing up)

• Premier League Football Family challenges (there are 6 outdoor and 6 indoor challenges

here which you can do with your family) https://plprimarystars.com/for-families/activity-

pack/12-star-challenge-and-football-fun/the-challenges/family-challenges

QUIET INDOOR ACTIVITIES

• Write a radio script and record it or make a short movie or book trailer using Clips or iMovie

on iPad

• Get out a Chemistry set and grow crystals or conduct some other child friendly experiments,

(http://www.sciencefun.org/kidszone/experiments/)

• Role Play - shops, schools, police etc. could use toy money/ label things to sell / give change

• Blackout poetry - photocopy the page of a book. Identify key words which might mean

something to you and circle them until you have a collection of words which seem to fit

together to say something interesting. You can then black out everything else with felt-tips

or coloured pencils, just leaving your circled words, or design a picture around your special

words:

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/john-depasquale/blackout-poetry/

• Research your ancestors and draw a family tree

• Role Play - shops, schools, police etc. could use toy money/ label things to sell / give change

• Learn to tie different knots, including a half Winsor, a full Winsor and a bow tie. Information

can be found on the internet. The best way to practice tieing a bow tie is on your leg

• Practice playing an instrument or learn how to play one