Need some family activity ideas while you’re stuck in Isolation?
We’ve compiled a list for you. Click the pictures for links to resources and articles
Read
Open a classic! Read it together, start a family book club. Present to the family what you liked or didn’t about the book.
Journal
Ask them to write something every day, how they are feeling, what they have been doing, something about themselves.
Develop a new skill
It might be cooking or sewing, learning another language, photography, changing a tyre, writing the shopping list or balancing finances.
Garden
Teach them how to weed, to plant encourage an understanding of nature and where our food comes from. Start a worm farm or compost heap.
Engage in a project
Let them take a bike apart and try put it back together, build a bird house, or a planter box for the garden.
Develop community
Give to a local charity, buy groceries for neighbours, write to the elderly in a local nursing home.
Encourage connection
Find new ways to ways to connect, write letters to grandparents, ask them questions, find out their favourite memories, what their childhood look like.
Find Ted Talks
Listen to Ted Talks together as a family and discuss. Like a book club only visual.
Be Active
Walk, ride, dance, play sports, play with the animals, engage in yoga, whatever it is, do it together.
Virtual Tours
There are so many virtual tours you can do online. Tour the Tate, Yosemite National Park, NASA. Legoland.
Have Fun
Play board games, Nurf wars, balloon fights, create obstacle courses and challenges. Having fun and laughing is so important.
Be Creative
Create a dream board, paint, bake, a music video, a movie.
