COVID19
Family Support
Social Distancing Activities/ Ideas during COVID-19:
- Pick a topic of interest they'd like to learn about and spend 10 to 30 minutes each day on that topic (YouTube Channel Oversimplified provides great visuals and explanations of historical events) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNIuvl7V8zACPpTmmNIqP2A
- Take a nature walk
- Read a book
- Bake something
- Write a letter and/or emails to a different friend or family member each day
- Clean doorknobs, counters, and various surfaces in bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and other high traffic areas
- Write a short story & illustrate it.
- Play Board games; card games
- Coloring books
- Scrapbooking
- Brid Watch
- Puzzles!
- Write a story cooperatively. One person picks a character and the other picks a setting and then create together.
- Art! beading, painting, drawing, play dough or kinetic sand, sewing, etc.
- Zumba or Dance-along videos on YouTube
- Scavenger hunts,
- Do "kitchen chemistry" type science experiments
- Give the dogs a bath and brush
- Wash and clean out the car
- Mow the lawn; weed; garden
- Play sidewalk chalk outside
- Popcorn + movie marathon
- Listen to kid or adult podcasts
- Learn new card games
- Have a puppet show
- Water play
- Make ice cream
- Make and play with Play dough
- Organizing closets and drawers
- Deep cleaning (refrigerators, ovens)
- Cooking more complex recipes
- Baking (cake, brownies, bread)
