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On this page, you will find lots of ideas of things to do during the period of school closure. These are things to do without a computer. |
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Arts and Crafts
- Learn the craft of origami/paper folding and see what you can make
- Use cleaned food packaging to create something with junk modelling
- Recycle the card from food and other packaging
- Use the card to create a collage
- Soak off the labels of cans of food and dry them for extra material
- make a decorate (not too heavy) paper aeroplanes and have a competition
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Cookery and Baking
- Help your parents make a weekly/daily meal
- Learn a new recipe every week
- Help to prepare, weigh and mix the ingredients
- Decorate a cake or cupcakes
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Word Games
- Complete a word search
- Create a word search with family and friends’ names for someone else to complete
- create a word search with words about a particular interest or subject
- See how many words you can make from the letters of another word
- Manchester, Northenden, etc.
- do a crossword
- create your own crossword puzzle for someone else to complete
- play scrabble (or make your own letter cards to play a similar game)
- play hangman
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Games and Puzzles
- Play SNAP with 2-3 members of your family
- Learn a new simple card game as a family
- Play a different board game every day (and learn to lose occasionally)
- Play ‘Noughts’ and ‘Crosses’ and start a daily league
- Complete a jigsaw over a period of time with a set number of pieces every day
- create your own board game
- play charades or your own version of Pictionary
- play ‘eye spy’
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Family Time
- Create a family tree
- Take out old family photographs and look back on events or holidays
- Sort out family photographs and create an album or scrapbook
- Chill out together and watch a favourite movie
- Have a picnic in the garden or indoors
- Everyone dress up for a special meal
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Drawing Activities
- Take a pencil for a walk on a page.
- Use the pencil to shade the spaces created by the pencil walk, perhaps by using lines in different directions
- Do an observational drawing of an item in your house, e.g. a shoe, a piece of furniture
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Writing Activities
- Write a daily diary of what life is like without school
- Write a note to your teacher (ready for SEESAW)
- Write a play over a week and then perform it as family
- Perform the song for family via SKYPE or ZOOM or WHATSAPP
- Write a set of instructions to get through life indoors
- write a poem that rhymes
- create a magazine (cut out photographs and other items from other sources)
- make a comic strip story
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Creative Games
- Play balloon handball
- Play ten-pin bowling with old plastic bottles and rolled-up socks
- make a fort out of boxes and blankets
- create a treasure hunt with clues
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Physical Activity
- Join Joe Wicks every morning at 9am for his daily workout
- Create a circuit in the garden or in different places in the home
- Try a new exercise every day
- create a safe obstacle course
- practise different sports races, e.g. dressing up, three-legged
- have a family sports afternoon
- create a perform a solo or group dance
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