Looking to refresh your daily routine? Everyone might be using devices throughout the whole day, but parents can balance that time by getting their kids engaged in scree-free activities. There are some ideas from which parents can be inspired to get creative and have lots of fun. Try these ideas to inspire them to get creative and have lots of fun.
Play games and get active
- Bird-watching
Parents can ask their children how many birds can they spot outside. Count them. You can ask your child to name the bird and its colours.
- 1-10 scavenger hunt
It is a search game for your home together for objects to count. Find something there's only one of, then two, and keep going up to 10!
- Who’s the sausage?
The child has to choose someone in the group to be the sausage. The rest of the group asks sausage questions. Sausage can only reply with, “Sausage”. The first person to make sausage laugh becomes sausage next!
Connect with Friends and Family
- Letter of appreciation
Parents can encourage their children to practice their writing skills by writing a letter for their loved ones and dictating it to them.
- Creature flowers
You can draw pictures of your favourite animal, be it real or imaginary. You can talk about them, their looks, what they eat, where they live, and how they sound.
- Forever flowers
Parents can use some kind of art supplies to help their kids to prepare a bouquet for the family members. Parents can help their kids to write a note along with it.
Relax, Reflect, and Learn
- Draw your feelings
You can ask your child to turn their emotions into art with the help of markers and paper.
- Listen to stories and podcasts
You can spark your child’s imagination by listening to stories and podcasts. Some of the exciting stories are Camp WeWow, Camp Adventure, Mashups- by Kids Listen, Stoopkid Stories, etc.
- Build a tree of thanks
Kids can write down things for which they are thankful on a piece of paper, and create a “tree” of thanks.
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