More Activity Ideas

This pack is to help you out with all of the interesting, simple and helpful ideas, activities and games for you and your children to enjoy and engage with!

Our Practitioners have been working heard gathering ideas and activities for you which can help you pass the time while we are all learning from home.

Don’t forget to upload all your fun activities onto your child’s EyLog learning journals!

A few paper based activities:

Scavenger hunt: we recently added a picture to our Facebook page with instructions for children to find things from around the home.

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For older children, a guessing game using subjects or topics and letters of the alphabet

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Taking it right back to older days: games such as noughts and crosses, squares or walk the dog.

For younger children, lay put large pieces of paper on the floor or attach a few pieces of card board or paper together and let them get creating .

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Letter formation is always a good one for older children, encourage them to make lists of what they can see in their bedroom or in the kitchen.

A few paper based activities:

Shadow tracing: this is where you place paper behind a standing object and encourage your child to trace around it. This can be done inside using a lamp or a torch if you don’t have access to an outside area.

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For all aged children, if you have access to paint of some sorts, creating your own paint brushes using different textures and clothes pegs.

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Taking it right back to older days: draw around hands and feet, decorate them and display them in the window. You can also create rainbows for people to spot while they are out walking.

For younger children, puree food or a small amount of floor on their high chair table to encourage fine motor skills using their fingers.

Squishy bags are a lovely idea for those children who do not like getting messy. Great for fine motor development

A few more creative based activities which support maths:

Cardboard Jigsaws: using old cereal boxes, cut out shapes which fit together like a jigsaw!

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Creating number lines with clothes pegs: you can use these to match up numbers and/or quantities. You can use larger squares with numbers on and match them up with pegs which have dots on.

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Number hunts and shape hunts: Give your child a list of shapes or numbers which they need to find displayed around the house. This could be the shape of your window or the number on you door or telephone.

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Games of I-Spy: you can use a range of topics such as phonics, shapes or colours. For example I Spy something in the shape of a square or I spy something that is the colour green.