Staying home with kids for an extended period of time can be hard! Out of ideas? We want to help. Here is an extensive list of things for you to do with your kids. I think you will enjoy some of them too…don’t be afraid to have fun.
84 Things to do with Kids during the Covid-19 Quarantine
- Build a fort
- Ride bikes
- Take naps
- Exercise daily
- Cook together
- Bake cookies, cupcakes, etc.
- Make a pizza
- Complete daily chores
- Do spring cleaning
- Organize areas of the house
- Make a pile of things to donate
- Design a learning space
- Read daily
- Write poetry or stories
- Keep a daily journal
- Maintain math facts by practicing
- Practice sight words or spelling words
- Develop printing or cursive
- Use fine and large motor skills daily
- Work on coin identification and values
- Play store with household items and real coins
- Work on sorting objects
- Create an animal fact sheet
- Play hangman
- Do word searches or crossword puzzles
- Play tic-tac-toe
- Learn basics of a new language with Duolingo (an app)
- Make a list of things for which you are grateful
- Create a vision board or bucket list
- Take a walk
- Set up a treasure hunt
- Play dress-up
- Have a fashion show
- Dramatic play – superheros, prince/princesses
- Sing karaoke
- Make instruments with household items
- Practice instruments
- Learn to juggle
- Have an indoor picnic
- Eat by candlelight
- Have a tea party
- Listen to music
- Create a music playlist
- Have a dance party
- Play dance freeze – play music then stop it frequently (everyone freezes until the music starts again)
- Play video games
- Have a spa day -mani/pedi, face masks, soak feet, take a bath, put on makeup, massages
- Paint with shaving cream in the bathtub/shower
- Facetime with friends or family
- Marco Polo with friends or family
- Play games
- Play cards
- Complete jigsaw puzzles
- Color
- Draw
- Make a self-portrait
- Paint rocks
- Paint on paper
- Make slime or playdough
- Play with playdough
- Make a collage out of books, magazine, catalogs, recycled paper items, etc.
- Dye Easter Eggs
- Have a Easter Egg hunt
- Make paper airplanes
- Learn to make origami
- Build with Legos
- Plan a summer vacation including all the details, cost, etc.
- Play hide and seek
- Play flashlight tag at night
- Play “I Spy”
- Plant seeds
- Use balloons to play “Don’t touch the floor”
- Watch movies
- Watch television
- Make videos to share on Facebook – music, news, daily weather, etc.
- Use sidewalk chalk
- Play hopscotch
- Fly a kite
- Blow bubbles
- Have a backyard campfire
- Make Smores
- Wash the car
- Clean up the leaves and twigs
- Have a backyard picnic