Hi! I hope you’re all well? So here as promised are what activities me and Kory have been doing together whilst in isolation.
First up is our ‘Sunshine painting.’ We painted our Rainbow and displayed it in our window and now we’ve painted a sunshine to go with it. This activity is really easy to do and lots of fun for the kids.
All you need for this one is:
- Paper
- Yellow shaded paints
- Pen
And here’s how to do it:
- Simply get out all of your yellow shaded paints and let the kids go crazy on the paper.
- Once dried, write some words of positivity on your picture. We chose the words ‘Be happy.’
Kory really enjoyed freely being able to be as creative as he liked with this one. He made his sunshine by mixing all of his different shades of yellow paint together and then by putting lots of yellow painted handprints on top of each other until he’d covered the paper with them. The only thing he asked me to do was to draw a smiley face on his picture and to write on it for him.
Next up, Kory did a couple of activity sheets that came in a magazine he had. (This was before his school had emailed over their learning pack for him.)
Kory did a few of these and because he was able to do them by himself it kept him busy for a while and meant I was able to sit down with a cup of tea!
If you don’t already have some pages like this available at home, there are lots of different ones that you can find online to print off. Obviously choose some that are tailored to your own child’s age and/or ability.
The next activity we did was we did a bit of reading together. Kory was really into the story so I managed to make an activity out of this one as well and this could be done with any story that your child likes.
We read ‘The very hungry caterpillar’ and after we’d finished reading the story Kory was keen to know more so we spoke about caterpillars and butterflies for a while and then we made our own together.
As I said earlier, this could be made suited for your child with any book that they particularly like and you could use anything you like to extend the activity.
We just used:
- Scissors
- Paper
- Pens
To make a butterfly and for the caterpillar we just folded paper we’d cut out! But you could use whatever you like.
- Read The Gruffalo? Paint a picture of The Gruffalo
- Read The Rainbow Fish? Learn about fishes and draw your own Rainbow fish
We’ve also:
- Made a den
- Done some drawing
- Got Kory involved with making dinner
The activity ideas are endless! We really don’t need to put ourselves under any pressure to be organised or to have an itinerary for the day. Kory is quite happy to spray the kitchen down with multi purpose cleaner! Just remember that we don’t need to be ‘perfect’ at this. Being stuck at home whilst trying to keep the kids engaged for days on end is something we’re all new at. We’ve never been in lockdown before! So don’t put yourself or your child under any unnecessary pressure. I’m sure your child is enjoying spending all this extra time with you no matter what it is that you do together.
Thanks for reading. I hope you liked this blog post and if you did please give it a like, or a comment and share it with your family and friends. It’s much appreciated!
Love,
Kirsti, xo
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