Seven Indoor Activities to Keep Kids Busy
It is hard to keep children busy at the best of times. Now with restrictions on going to schools and workplaces along with strict social isolation rules most children and parents will be forced to work, learn and play together from the comfort of their own homes and without friends and family visiting. To help keep kids occupied during the lockdown, PoxClin has come up with a few suggestions!
1. Build a castle!
To keeps things interesting at home a change of scene always helps! Use bedding, cushions, furniture – anything really and turn your living space into a fortress, it’s a great way of keeping the kids active and entertained for a couple of hours. To prolong the fun, you could even offer them to have lunch in their newly built castle.
2. Get creative.
Creative projects are a great way to keep everybody busy if you’ve got a houseful! From colouring to crafts like cutting and sticking, painting or making playdough, there are a lot of projects to keep things new and exciting.
Try making salt playdough, baking it and then painting it the next day. You could make a salt dough with ingredients from your kitchen – 1 cup of salt, 2 cups of flour and 3/4 cup of water. Combine the salt and flour together then stir in the water gradually until it forms a doughy consistency. You can create shapes or make hand and footprints in the dough. Place shapes in the oven at 180 degrees and bake until hardened.
3. If you have a garden, use it!
Although mixing at school or outside is currently a no-no, there are ways to get outside even if you’re at home. If you have a garden it’s a great way of getting the kids outdoors to burn off excess energy, plant some seeds and get them digging or gardening. You could also get them to spot something in the garden and draw it or if you’re feeling really adventurous use an old lunch box to create a time capsule and bury it in your garden!
4. Make an assault course.
If you don’t have access to a garden don’t worry, kids can burn off energy in the house too! Use cushions, chairs or any other furniture and create an assault course. This can be as big or small as your home allows and they can do it however many times in order to win a ‘prize’.
5. Set up a treasure hunt…
There are all sorts of things in the house that you can hide for children to search for – toys, food, the tv remote the list goes on! If your child knows how to write you can make it a bit harder (and last longer) by writing clues.
6. Finally use that home cinema!
Draw the curtains, dim the lights and get all the comfy cushions and bedding down on the floor to make an at home cinema! With some snacks and hydration, the kids won’t even know they’re at home…hopefully.
7. Try some baking.
Making and decorating biscuits is a great way to keep your little ones occupied, especially when they know they might get to have one as a snack at the end. It’s also great to get your child involved with helping to make dinner like helping to stir sauces. It can also be a fun way to educate them about healthy diets!
