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Activities Pack April 2020
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This pack is primarily aimed at parents, but there are some great activities, tips, and links for all.
It is not an exhaustive list, but it is designed to give you ideas over the coming weeks to keep
the energies high and boredom low.
Amazing virtual Music and Fun and
attractions. drama. educational.
Books: links to
Mindfulness and free audio Things to do
keeping active books. indoors/in the
ideas and apps. garden.
MARSH 24 April 2020 1Amazing Attractions
A list of museums, zoos, and other attractions from around the world to visit from the comforts of
our home while we self-isolate.
Museums
• Anne Franke Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands • National Gallery Of Arts, Washington DC • The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United
https://www.annefrank.org/en/museum/web-and- https://www.nga.gov/ States
digital/ https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-j-paul-
• National Gallery, London getty-museum
• British Museum, London https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-
https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/ tours • The Museum of Flight -
https://museumofflight.org/Explore-The-
• Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain • National Museum Of US Air Forces Museum/Virtual-Museum-Online
https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
• The National Museum of Computing on
• Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia • Natural History Museum, London Bletchley Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YeFsx1rIw&fe https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/the- https://britishart.yale.edu/
ature=youtu.be natural-history-museum-hintze-
hall/yQHjHCmSOMKyhQ • Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
• Louvre Museum Paris https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/uffizi-
https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne • Palestine Museum gallery
https://www.palmuseum.org/ehxibitions/virtual-
• MASP, Sao Paolo, Brazil exhibitions • US Holocaust Museum
https://masp.org.br/en https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/onlin
• Picasso Museum, Barcelona e-exhibitions
• Met Museum, New York http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/museum/pres
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online- entation.html • Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
features/met-360-project https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/van-gogh-
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands museum
• Musée d’Orsay, Paris https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/rijksmuse
https://m.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html um • Virginia Living Museum
• Musei Vaticani, Vatican City https://thevlm.org/visit/about-us/covid-19-
• Royal Academy Of Arts, London update/natural-education/
http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/e https://britishart.yale.edu/
n/collezioni/musei/tour-virtuali-elenco.html • Women's History Museum, Virginia, USA
• Salvatore Dali Museum, Figueres, Spain https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-
• Museum Of London Docklands https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/dali-
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/about- history/online-exhibits
theatre-museum-in-figueres/visita-virtual/#
us/business-services/venue-hire/museum-london- • Yale Centre For British Art
docklands/virtual-tour • Tate Britain, London https://britishart.yale.edu/
https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-
britain/display/walk-through-british-art
MARSH 24 April 2020 2Amazing Attractions
A list of museums, zoos and other attractions from around the world to visit from the comforts of
our home while we self-isolate
Tourist Destinations General Sites Zoos
• Buckingham Palace, London • AirPano • African Animals • International Wolf Centre
https://www.royal.uk/virtual-tours- https://www.airpano.com/ https://explore.org/livecams/african- https://wolf.org/wolf-cams2/
buckingham-palace wildlife/african-animal-lookout-
• Berliner Philharominker camera • Kansas City Zoo
• Colosseum, Rome https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/ https://www.kansascityzoo.org/oura
https://tinyurl.com/thrprzf home • Atlanta Zoo nimals/list-of-animals/king-penguin/
• Machu Picchu https://zooatlanta.org/panda-cam/
• ExoPlanets NASA • Melbourne Zoo
https://www.youvisit.com/tour/machu https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/ • Cincinnati Zoo https://www.zoo.org.au/animal-
picchu?pl=f https://www.facebook.com/events/2 house
• Legoland 915534028492292/
• Northern Lights https://www.legoland.dk/en/accommo • National Aquarium, USA
https://explore.org/livecams/aurora- dation/hotel-legoland/virtual-tour/ • Dublin Zoo https://www.aqua.org/Experience/liv
borealis-northern-lights/northern- https://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/an e
lights-cam • NASA, Langley Research Centre imal-webcams/elephants/
https://oh.larc.nasa.gov/oh/ • National Zoo, Washington DC
• Pyramids • Edinburgh https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams
https://www.tripsavvy.com/virtual- • The Kennedy Centre Zoohttps://www.edinburghzoo.org.u
field-trip-pyramids-1259200 https://www.kennedy- k/webcams/panda-cam/ • Osaka Zoo
center.org/digitalstage/ http://www.wombat-tv.com/
• Stonehenge • Explore.org Live Cams
https://tinyurl.com/wz3xgz7 • Walt Disney Parks https://explore.org/livecams • San Diego, California, Zoo
https://tinyurl.com/v7qano5 https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-
• Street Art with Google • Flamingo Land cams
https://streetart.withgoogle.com/en/ • Wellcome Collection https://www.flamingoland.co.uk/virtu
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=r al-tour/ • Smithsonian, Washington DC
• Taj Mahal, Agra, India MGsprcVCAR https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams
https://tinyurl.com/qpz7vmt • Florida Aquarium
• The Great Wall Of China http://www.flaquarium.org/sea-span • Yellowstone National Park
https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/phot
https://www.thechinaguide.com/desti • Hirakawa Zoo, Japan osmultimedia/virtualtours.htm
nation/great-wall-of-china https://hirakawazoo.jp/animal/movie
• Tour of Rome, Italy
https://tinyurl.com/s5vlzbc
MARSH 24 April 2020 3Mindfulness and Keeping Active Ideas and Apps
These are all available as apps too
Joe Wicks on YouTube or
BBC iPlayer
Smiling Mind Cosmic Yoga – YouTube
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ Short audio session to help Yoga videos designed for
episode/m000h1z9/blue-peter- with mindfulness kids aged 3+
were-staying-home?xtor=CS8- https://app.smilingmind.co.au/
1000-[Discovery_Cards]- www.youtube.com/user/co
[Multi_Site]-[SL07]- smickidsyoga
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er:JoeWicks
BBC Supermovers Go Noodle – YouTube Premier League Stars
Interactive videos to Brainercise, dancing, Videos and activities to
support with KS1 Maths, strength and mindfulness support Maths, Literacy,
literacy and PSHE and PE videos – as well as videos PSHE and PE
learning. Great for times that are “just for fun” www.plprimarystars.com
tables too www.youtube.com/user/G
www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supe oNoodleGames/featured
rmovers
MARSH 24 April 2020 4Free Theatre and Drama Fun and Educational
Theatre FUN
5 streaming services to Meet a tiger up close and personal
watch Broadway and West • Type in your phones Google
End shows in your living browser “tiger” and scroll down
room to view in 3D.
https://www.londontheatre.c • Try with different animals
o.uk/theatre-news/west-end-
features/theatre-streaming-
services-west-end-
broadway-musicals
Harry Potter BBC website – Bitesize
Expelliarmus boredom! JK • https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Rowling launches 'Harry (by age groupings)
Potter at Home' hub for kids • Bitesize app available for both
in lockdown. iOs and Android users
https://www.cnn.com/2020/0
4/01/world/harry-potter-at-
home-hub-jk-rowling-scli-
intl-gbr/index.html
MARSH 24 April 2020 5Books: Links to Free Audio Books
https://www.audible.co.uk/search
https://www.worldofdavidwalliams. ?keywords=free+children+books&
com/elevenses/ ref=a_hp_t1_header_search
(free audible books for kids)
http://www.audiobooktreasury.co
https://www.storynory.com/
m/free-audiobooks/childrens/
MARSH 24 April 2020 6100+ things to do in Doors/in the Garden.
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SENSORY PLAY
Make Homemade Playdough Make Rainbow Rice
Make Homemade Slime. You may want to try
some of our other fun slime recipes too like Fluffy Make Fake Snow
Slime, Rainbow Slime, or Clear Slime
Make Play Mud Make a Sensory Bin
MARSH 24 April 2020 7100+ things to do in Doors/in the Garden.
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CRAFTS GAMES
• Make Paper Airplanes • Make a Sensory Bag • Learn to Draw
• Salt Painting: We have a snowflake or • Paint Leaves • Put on a Play
firework template • Make a Time Capsule • Make Indoor Hopscotch. Use masking
• Make Suncatchers • Make Button Art tape to make your own hopscotch on
• Make handprint or leaf suncatchers tiles in your own
• Paint with Watercolors
• Make Salt Dough • Do a Family Chore Together
• Color in a Coloring Book
• Make Sponge Stamps • Make Paper Crafts: Make paper • Have a Dance Party
• Make a Cereal Box Aquarium butterflies, paper sailboat, or paper • Have a Tea Party
• Make Scratch Art flowers
• Play with Water In a Bin With Toys
• Make Your Own Bookmarks: We have • Build a Cardboard Castle
• Set up a Play Store. Grab a shopping
templates to make Minion, Olaf, Trolls or • Our recycled crafts for kids book has a basket and set up the merchandise. We
Toy Story Bookmarks step-by-step tutorial to make your own like this play cash register too!
• Paint Pet Rocks cardboard castle. See the book here.
• Make a Sock Toss Game. Use
• Make Recycled Crayons • Make Tissue Box Monsters mismatched socks and fill them with
• Make Paper Boats • Make a Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly. More beans or rice. Then try to see how
toilet paper roll crafts: paper roll flower many you can ‘score’ in a laundry
• Finger Paint and butterfly, toilet paper roll flowers, toilet basket.
• Make Friendship Bracelets paper roll monsters • Make Perler Bead Art
• Make a Bird Feeder • Stamp with Celery: Make celery flowers
• Write in a Journal
with the stumps of your celery.
• Make Paper Bag Puppets • Use Dot Markers
• Draw a Self Portrait
• Make Handprint Art
• Do Scrape Painting
• Make a Scrapbook
• Paint a Recycled Jar
• Decorate T-Shirts
• Make Your Own Superhero Costume
• Make a Thankful Jar
MARSH 24 April 2020 8100+ things to do in Doors/in the Garden.
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ACTIVITIES EDUCATIONAL
• Build a Fort • Learn to Draw • Read Books
• Have a Pillow Fight • Put on a Play • Do a Science Project
• Write a Story • Make Indoor Hopscotch. Use masking • Learn Origami
tape to make your own hopscotch on tiles
• Make Ice Cream in a Bag • Learn About a New Animal
in your own
• Make Homemade Gummy Bears • Learn a New Card Game
• Do a Family Chore Together
• Make Fruit Roll-Ups • Learn to Sew
• Have a Dance Party
• Have a Movie Day • Learn to Knit
• Have a Tea Party
• Put on a Fashion Show • Do Brain Teasers
• Play with Water In a Bin With Toys
• Bake Cupcakes or Muffins • Learn About a Country
• Set up a Play Store. Grab a shopping
• Do Yoga basket and set up the merchandise. We
like this play cash register too!
• Build an Obstacle Course
• Make a Sock Toss Game. Use
• Make Dinner Together
mismatched socks and fill them with
• Play with Magnetic Tiles beans or rice. Then try to see how many
you can ‘score’ in a laundry basket.
• Build Something With Lego: You can even
make your own travel lego case! • Make Perler Bead Art
• Build a Stack of Cards • Write in a Journal
• Put on a Puppet Show • Use Dot Markers
• Make a Treasure Hunt
• Make Your Own Indoor Bowling. Use
paper towel rolls as your bowling pins and
use a ball to bowl
MARSH 24 April 2020 9100+ things to do in Doors/in the Garden
Fill a jam jar of things you want
Paint a fence outside with
Indoor obstacle race to do when you’re out of
water
lockdown
Home Workhours for
Put old wallpaper on a fence Lockdown
and let them do outdoor Hand/foot print animals
painting https://www.facebook.com/groups/1
41368677202953/?fref=mentions
Create your own NHS Create a den you can sleep in
Tic toc video dedication (lego, chalk, draw, – have sleep overs in sibling’s
paint, collage) bedroom
MARSH 24 April 2020 10100+ things to do in doors / in the garden Indoor Scavenger Hunt – List items to find around your house or garden. • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ MARSH 24 April 2020 11
100+ things to do in doors / in the garden Rainbow Scavenger hunt - List colourful items to find around your house or garden. • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ MARSH 24 April 2020 12
100+ things to do in doors / in the garden Book Scavenger Hunt - List books to find around your house or garden. • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ • ______________________ MARSH 24 April 2020 13
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