30 Screen-free activities the kids can try at home during Lockdown: I know I am continually trying to think of screen-free things to entertain the kids!
Download a printable 30 Screen-Free activities for kids sheet here
- Paper Aeroplane Race: Make your own paper aeroplane and see how far you can fly it! See who can fly theirs the furthest! Best of 3?
- Make friendship bracelets to give your friends when you next see them.
- Create a comic strip about a superhero: What superpower will you choose and who will be their enemy? Where will they live?
- Try Flower pressing: The first signs of spring are beginning to appear, all you need is a beautiful bloom, some baking paper and a thick book!
- Build a den: try sheets over the kitchen table, cushions behind the sofa… what will you take in with you?
- Doodle: Grab some paper and pens and doodle anything you like! Animals, aliens or something else?
- Read: What would you most like to learn about? Can you research a new hobby?
- Draw your family: Who will be the trickiest to draw?
- Make puppets: use socks, wooden spoons or card and put on a show!
- Design your own mythical creature: Could you combine two of your favourites animals? What will you call it?
- Play noughts and crosses.
- Research a foreign country: what do they eat, what language do they speak? Who could you ask? Could you find the information in a book?
- Create a quiz for your family and be quizmaster on your next zoom call!
- Try knitting or crochet: this has been a winner with Miss Mini-Mumbler!
- Play cards
- Create your own musical instrument: will it be a guitar made from a box and some elastic bands, a maraca made with rice and a bottle or something else?
- Fingerprint art: Use only your fingertips and paint to create a picture – it can be as big or as small as you like!
- Play paper battleships: draw 2 10×10 squares on a sheet of paper, position your ships and take it in turns to try to sink them.
- Have a building competition: What will you build? A Lego model, a tower of playing cards, Knex?
- See how many words you can find in the word CONSTANTINOPLE – this is one my Grandma used to entertain us with!
- Make up your own 5-minute exercise routine and share it with your family.
- Start a lockdown diary: Write a short entry every day about what you do and how you feel. It will be good to look back on when this is all over.
- Write a play and act it out for your family
- Junk modelling: Raid the recycling and see what you can create! Try yoghurt pots, toilet rolls and boxes.
- Write a postcard to your friend: tell them what you have been doing and suggest something to do together next time you see them.
- Nature Art: collect things from your garden and create a nature masterpiece
- Write a poem – they don’t have to rhyme!
- Draw your house: could you improve it? What would you add, maybe a swimming pool or a slide from upstairs to down?
- Create your own board game: will it be a maze, a numbers game or something else?
- Plant some bulbs or seeds: can you remember to water them? Maybe you could record their growth and compare the weeks to see which week it grew the most?