What we’ve been up to

I’m sorry I didn’t post on here yesterday as promised. I really wanted to share with you all yesterday’s activity but as you can imagine, being stuck in with two children to take care of and entertain didn’t leave me with much time to write anything at all! But today I’ve managed to spare a bit of time for myself, both kids are finally sleeping so I’m using this time to write this blog post.

Yesterday was a busy day for us and today has been too. Me and Kory have actually done quite a few different activities together so rather than just sharing the one with you, I thought I’d share a few instead. So here goes, I hope you like reading about what we’ve been up to and if you’re stuck for ideas of what to do I hope this gives you some inspiration.

Yesterday’s activities:

Yesterday we started the day by making a collage. This activity is really simple, very easy to do, lots of fun and doesn’t require a lot of materials either – you probably have most of them lying around your house somewhere already.

Here’s what you will need:

• Large piece of paper
• Glue
• Scissors
• Pictures or things to stick down
• Pens
• Literally anything you can think of!

Here’s how to do it:

• Print out or cut out pictures for your child
• If your child is old enough, you could even let them cut the pictures out
• Then, use glue to stick the pictures onto a large piece of paper
• Once dried, let them decorate the collage however they’d like

After finishing his collage, I got Kory to try out the pepper experiment. If you haven’t seen this one already, it’s where the pepper represents the ‘germs’ and the experiment shows what happens when we wash our hands.

Here’s what you will need:

• Bowl
• Water
• Pepper
• Hand wash

Here’s how to do it:

• Fill a bowl with water
• Add pepper to bowl
• Get your child to dip their finger in
• Lift out their finger, show them the ‘dirt’ on their finger
• Put a blob of hand wash on the tip of their finger
• Get them to stick their finger back into the bowl of water and pepper
• Watch as the pepper moves away from their finger almost by magic!

This experiment is a great way to demonstrate how germs work to your child and an even better way to get them to wash their hands!

Kory also did some:

• Cutting out
• Colouring
• Playing with toys
• Helping with housework

Today’s activities:

Whilst we may be on lockdown and unable to leave our homes, everyone is allowed to leave the house just once a day for a walk or to exercise as long as you only go with the people from your household and don’t meet up with other people. We had some lovely weather today so we decided to take our dog, Harley, for a walk. I made sure we went nice and early to avoid bumping into other people. It was really quiet and we had the whole field to ourselves! It was the first time we’d left the house in days, Kory and Kora both got some fresh air and Harley was happy he got to go for a run!

Once we got back home, I got the chalks out for Kory and we did some chalk drawing in the garden. It kept Kory occupied for ages and he got really creative with it too!

Here’s what you will need:

• Just chalk for this one!

Here’s how to do it:

• Join in or leave them to it!

Although we have been stuck at home, we definitely had fun in the sun and made the most of the nice weather today.

Kory also did some:

• Bubble blowing
• Colouring pages outside in the sun
• Water play
• Trampolining
• Looking for bugs

So, thank you for reading my blog post on what we’ve been up to. I hope you’re all doing okay during this isolation period.

Lots of love,

Kirsti, xo