Life Skills

• Tying a shoelace
• Using a knife and fork correctly
• Being able to do and undo a range of different fastenings (buttons, zips, poppers etc)
• Learn left and right
• Learning a new craft like knitting or sewing
• Learn how to fold clothes (and put them away!)
• Making a packed lunch
• Looking after a garden

Writing Skills

• Learn to write home address, full name
• Shopping lists
• Postcards/ Letters to relatives
• Birthday cards
• Posters
• Tickets to a household event – Movie Night etc.
• Jokes
• Riddles
• Write a review of a book/game/film etc to share with a friend (remotely)
• Make a treasure hunt with a map and written clues
• Write a list of your favourite books, games, TV shows, toys etc – can you rewrite the list in alphabetical order?
• What am I? Choose a topic like animals or food.  Write some clues for someone to guess what you are. You could write the answer on a post-it note (if you have any) and they can wear it on their head until they guess!

Spelling Skills

• Write out letters/sounds/whole words in: sand, flour, shaving foam, with a squirty bottle of water on the floor outside, chalk…anything you can think of!
• Make letters/sounds/whole words from playdoh, with letters cut out of magazines, sticks, pipe cleaners, play doh, pasta…anything you can think of!
• Access Spelling games on a tablet or computer  https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html
• Use magnetic letters or scrabble tiles to make the words

Phonics Skills

• Play ‘I spy’ looking for words that begin with a certain sound
• Write out some sounds on pieces of paper- can you splat them with your hand when I say them? Or get the child to say them and then splat.  Spread them out on the floor and get the child to jump on the correct sound
• Access Phonics games on a tablet or computer https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/#
• Go on a treasure hunt for different objects starting with a particular sound – can you find objects that end with a particular sound?
• If you have a sandpit write the sounds out and bury them, can the child dig them up and say the sound correctly?

Reading Skills

• Reading recipes
• Reading instructions for games, on seed packets etc
• Reading to a younger sibling (if you have one!)
• Reading clues on a treasure hunt
• Research a famous person/character etc
• Play Bingo http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/hfwBingo/index.html or make your own by writing out some words on pieces of paper and making some bingo cards to match to.

Maths Skills

• Learn to tell the time using an analogue clock
• Learn the days of the week and months of the year in order
• Learn useful time facts – 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week etc.
• Money – learn the value of coins, play shops etc
• Weights and measures – weigh out ingredients for a cake, measure the length of different objects in the house, time how long it takes to do something, how far can you jump? Use a tape measure or pace it out
• Card games – lots of ideas here: https://www.weareteachers.com/math-card-games/
• Board games like Snakes and Ladders, Monopoly, any that use a dice
• Learn compass directions
• Ordering objects smallest/shortest to biggest/longest, using 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd etc

Problem Solving Skills

• Can you design/make/build a bridge to cross a river?
• Can you design/make/build a trap for something/someone?
• Make up a game for your family to play
• Design your own classroom/theme park/zoo… whatever you like!
• Do a jigsaw puzzle
• Building a den

Physical Skills

• Riding a bike
• Skipping with a rope
• Hop on one foot (then swap!)
• Jump with both feet together
• Obstacle courses to improve gross motor skills
• Picking up small objects with tweezers
• Balancing something on your head!

Get active!

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p06tmmvz/andys-wild-workouts - for younger ones
• https://www.cosmickids.com/ or on YouTube
• https://family.gonoodle.com/
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/just-for-fun-collection/z7tymfr

Other Ideas

• Lots of great ideas here for Duplo activities (could be adapted for Lego or other construction bricks) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItincwrwWhA
• Create a Lockdown Time Capsule https://letsembark.ca/time-capsule
• 100 things to do indoors  https://www.schoolofspreadthehappiness.co.uk/product/100-things-to-do-indoors/
• Make your own visual timetable for your routine whilst you are at home.  Draw your own symbols for different activities and cut them out.
• Family Learning Activities Lcc https://www.leics-als.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=494