Covid-19 : Keeping Kids Occupied, Activities

A list of activities contributed by PIEZ group members:

1. Indoor snow : 2 cups baking soda and 1/2 cup conditioner.
2. Screen Time is Great
   • Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/YouTubeKids/Disney+ videos for kids
   • PBS kids has free video and game apps
     Bill NYE
     Science Max
3. Library books
4. Audiobooks
5. Brain quest workbooks
6. Montessori activities
7. Legos & Mega Blocks
8. Fort building with blankets and cushions
9. Books
10. Make checkerboard out of construction paper and tape and learned how to play checkers together.
11. Gardening
12. Basic body weight exercises
13. Trampoline indoors or out
14. Beanbag toss indoors or out
15. Rube Goldberg Machines
16. Cardboard Maze
17. Parlor Games
18. Copy Famous Art
19. Hiking in nature keeping distancing guidelines in mind
20. Climb Trees
21. Parkour
22. Biking
23. Skateboarding
24. Roller Skating
25. Disc Golf
26. Build a Tree House/Fort
27. Slack Line
28. Ninja Challenge
29. Dig a Mud Pit
30. Garden
31. Make a Rock Wall
32. Build Birdhouses
33. Little tykes play structure inside
34. Ball pit balls in the empty bathtub
35. Pipe cleaners and a colander that he can stick the pipe cleaners in
36. Kinetic sand
37. Water beads
38. Water, paint brushes for water painting construction paper or the driveway or fence
39. Let then take all the cushions off the couch and build a fort or play “hot lava”
40. Backyard time.
41. Simple craft projects like collages with old magazines
42. Making obstacle courses and timing to see how fast they can get through it.
43. Making silly videos–make a stage and act out plays with stuffies. Share the videos with other kids via email.
44. FaceTime/Skype/Video Chat with friends
45. Toilet Paper Tubes
46. Pompoms
47. Cardboard Strips & Drinking Straws. Use straws to blow poms.Use tape to make mazes on floor to blow through with straws or vertical mazes on wall to see if gravity carries it to a goal spot.
48. Cosmic kids yoga adventures on amazon prime is AMAZING!
49. Separate the pompoms by color and put each color in its own bucket (for toddlers)
50. Put pompoms into a bottle (the Voss water bottles, the smallest size. It makes this difficult)  (for toddlers)
51. IKEA/Melissa and Doug type paper rolls for kids. Mix tempura paints with water and corn starch, put them in 2 Oz squeeze bottles. Art time.
52. Stickers
53. Load the kinetic sand into on to toy dump truck and unload the dump truck
54. Playdoh
55. Bubbles
56. Type alphabets, numbers, words on laptop, try different fonts, colors etc.,
57. Microsoft Windows Paint or some app like that and let them “draw” on the screen
58. OT activities
59. Baking
60. Geocaching (keeping social distancing guidelines in mind)
61. Sewing
62. Snap circuits
63. Kitchen science stuff
64. Chores
65. Sight word scavenger hunts
66. Art prompts
67. Museums Virtual tours : https://www.forbes.com/sites/natashagural/2020/03/13/how-to-view-the-worlds-biggest-museum-collections-even-as-covid-19-brings-the-art-world-to-a-halt/

    Please still follow all the guideline given to you by your local health authority and Healthcare providers

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