- Invent a new board game
- Use chalk art to turn your entire driveway (or front porch, or back deck, or garage floor) into a mural
- Write letters to people you know
- Make hand made cards to mail to strangers in nursing homes
- Bake cookies
- Plan a menu based on ingredients at home
- Learn to cook
- Watch animal videos (Cincinnati Zoo, Shedd Aquarium)
- Make up fun songs
- Read Shel Silverstein online and then write silly poems like he does
- Create a dance routine to a favorite KidzBop song
- Write a rap about the period table of elements, (or the Greek alphabet, or mutiplication tables)
- Film your rap on TikTok or SnapChat or Facebook live
- Plant a container garden
- Do a multi-week experiment about what kind of music helps your container garden grow faster, (find a “scientific method” chart online to help with recording their hypothesis and testing it)
- Detail the inside of the car
- Video chat grandma
- Teach grandma how to use her video chat first
- Read big books together (Harry Potter, Narnia, Animal Farm, Moby Dick, Alice in Wonderland)
- Do YouTube videos for family meditation
- Do online exercise videos from LesMills or your local YMCA
- Measure all the things
- Design charts to show the measurements
- Create a stop-action film with Legos or play dough or stuffed animals (or, if you really enjoy Bob’s Burgers, with a pound of raw hamburger)
- Write a movie script, design sets with items on hand, film it, post it online
- Let them find Pinterest activities they can do with common household items
- Build the Best. Fort. Ever.
- Draw their own comic books
- Make salt dough and play with it
- Memorize something (Scripture verses, your favorite monologue from a movie, the preamble to the Constitution, all 50 states in alphabetical order)
- Hide Easter eggs around the house
- Do old fashioned calisthenics
- Organize toys (NOT YOU… let them do it and then be okay with how they do it)
- Create a time capsule to open in 10 years
- Bury it in the back yard
- Hide a “treasure” and then make a treasure map for others to find it
- Use paper plates or construction paper to make giant Scrabble letters and play word games
- Help change the oil in the car
- Learn how to change a flat tire
- Do easy science projects like eggs in various liquids, or testing air pollution, or the effect of germs on bread (all on Pinterest plus a million more)
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