FAMILY ACTIVITIES
Board Games - Design your own game
Create a veggie garden
Make a COVID-19 Journal – we are living in history, just like kids learn about the ANZACS, Convicts, Olympics, etc in years to come they will learn about the COVID-19 pandemic. You could make a family keepsake that documents the timeline, new sayings, stories, daily life and how things changed, new laws, what was in short supply.
Treasure hunt (with clues, hide a favourite toy somewhere in the house)
Have a Living Room disco – play freeze, musical chairs, have a dance off
Go through recipe books together and have a bake off challenge
Using Lego characters or other small toys, make a stop motion movie (download the app Stop Motion to your phone or Ipad)
Have a handball tournament
Fold paper planes and see how far they will fly
Learn how to bake bread
Keep a balloon in the air as long as possible
Build a house with a deck of cards
Play cinema – make tickets, popcorn, give your guests a rug and watch a movie together
Make up a workout and do it together (eg: 25 star jumps, 20 squats, 15 crunches, hop like a bunny around the lounge room, frog leap your partner)
Play the gummy bear game (using dice and 5 gummies each. Roll a 1 you eat one in your pile, a 2 you pass one bear to your left, a 3 you pass to your right, a 4 you keep it, a 5 you eat it, a 6 you keep it – keep playing till the gummies are gone!)
Use masking tape to make a race track. Race matchbox cars. Or use the inside of your bathtub as a ramp for racing
Using butchers paper, trace a partner’s whole body. Now try to include as many body parts and organs as you can
Make a bottle rocket
Make a marble run or maze out of Lego
Take apart an old appliance. Can you put it back together?
Make a popsicle stick catapult
LEGO Challenge – Build famous landmarks
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