Activities Pack April 2020

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Activities Pack April 2020
Activities Pack
April 2020
Activities Pack April 2020
Contents

This pack is primarily aimed at parents, but there are some great activities, tips, and links for all.
It is not an exhaustive list, but it is designed to give you ideas over the coming weeks to keep
the energies high and boredom low.

              Amazing virtual                Music and                          Fun and
               attractions.                   drama.                          educational.

                                                                Books: links to
                            Mindfulness and                       free audio                  Things to do
                             keeping active                         books.                   indoors/in the
                            ideas and apps.                                                     garden.

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Amazing Attractions

A list of museums, zoos, and other attractions from around the world to visit from the comforts of
our home while we self-isolate.
Museums
• Anne Franke Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands          • National Gallery Of Arts, Washington DC                • The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United
  https://www.annefrank.org/en/museum/web-and-          https://www.nga.gov/                                     States
  digital/                                                                                                       https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-j-paul-
                                                      • National Gallery, London                                 getty-museum
• British Museum, London                                https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-
  https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/                 tours                                                  • The Museum of Flight -
                                                                                                                 https://museumofflight.org/Explore-The-
• Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain                           • National Museum Of US Air Forces                         Museum/Virtual-Museum-Online
  https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en                  https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
                                                                                                               • The National Museum of Computing on
• Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia             • Natural History Museum, London                           Bletchley Park
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YeFsx1rIw&fe        https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/the-        https://britishart.yale.edu/
  ature=youtu.be                                        natural-history-museum-hintze-
                                                        hall/yQHjHCmSOMKyhQ                                    • Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
• Louvre Museum Paris                                                                                            https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/uffizi-
  https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne           • Palestine Museum                                         gallery
                                                        https://www.palmuseum.org/ehxibitions/virtual-
• MASP, Sao Paolo, Brazil                               exhibitions                                            • US Holocaust Museum
  https://masp.org.br/en                                                                                         https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/onlin
                                                      • Picasso Museum, Barcelona                                e-exhibitions
• Met Museum, New York                                  http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/museum/pres
  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-                 entation.html                                          • Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  features/met-360-project                                                                                       https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/van-gogh-
                                                      • Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands                      museum
• Musée d’Orsay, Paris                                  https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/rijksmuse
  https://m.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html                 um                                                     • Virginia Living Museum
• Musei Vaticani, Vatican City                                                                                   https://thevlm.org/visit/about-us/covid-19-
                                                      • Royal Academy Of Arts, London                            update/natural-education/
  http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/e   https://britishart.yale.edu/
  n/collezioni/musei/tour-virtuali-elenco.html                                                                 • Women's History Museum, Virginia, USA
                                                      • Salvatore Dali Museum, Figueres, Spain                   https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-
• Museum Of London Docklands                            https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/dali-
  https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/about-                                                                       history/online-exhibits
                                                        theatre-museum-in-figueres/visita-virtual/#
  us/business-services/venue-hire/museum-london-                                                               • Yale Centre For British Art
  docklands/virtual-tour                              • Tate Britain, London                                     https://britishart.yale.edu/
                                                        https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-
                                                        britain/display/walk-through-british-art

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Amazing Attractions

A list of museums, zoos and other attractions from around the world to visit from the comforts of
our home while we self-isolate
Tourist Destinations                     General Sites                                Zoos
• Buckingham Palace, London              • AirPano                                     • African Animals                         • International Wolf Centre
  https://www.royal.uk/virtual-tours-      https://www.airpano.com/                      https://explore.org/livecams/african-     https://wolf.org/wolf-cams2/
  buckingham-palace                                                                      wildlife/african-animal-lookout-
                                         • Berliner Philharominker                       camera                                  • Kansas City Zoo
• Colosseum, Rome                          https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/                                                  https://www.kansascityzoo.org/oura
  https://tinyurl.com/thrprzf              home                                        • Atlanta Zoo                               nimals/list-of-animals/king-penguin/
• Machu Picchu                                                                           https://zooatlanta.org/panda-cam/
                                         • ExoPlanets NASA                                                                       • Melbourne Zoo
  https://www.youvisit.com/tour/machu      https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/                • Cincinnati Zoo                            https://www.zoo.org.au/animal-
  picchu?pl=f                                                                            https://www.facebook.com/events/2         house
                                         • Legoland                                      915534028492292/
• Northern Lights                          https://www.legoland.dk/en/accommo                                                    • National Aquarium, USA
  https://explore.org/livecams/aurora-     dation/hotel-legoland/virtual-tour/         • Dublin Zoo                                https://www.aqua.org/Experience/liv
  borealis-northern-lights/northern-                                                     https://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/an       e
  lights-cam                             • NASA, Langley Research Centre                 imal-webcams/elephants/
                                           https://oh.larc.nasa.gov/oh/                                                          • National Zoo, Washington DC
• Pyramids                                                                             • Edinburgh                                 https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams
  https://www.tripsavvy.com/virtual-     • The Kennedy Centre                            Zoohttps://www.edinburghzoo.org.u
  field-trip-pyramids-1259200              https://www.kennedy-                          k/webcams/panda-cam/                    • Osaka Zoo
                                           center.org/digitalstage/                                                                http://www.wombat-tv.com/
• Stonehenge                                                                           • Explore.org Live Cams
  https://tinyurl.com/wz3xgz7            • Walt Disney Parks                             https://explore.org/livecams            • San Diego, California, Zoo
                                           https://tinyurl.com/v7qano5                                                             https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-
• Street Art with Google                                                               • Flamingo Land                             cams
  https://streetart.withgoogle.com/en/   • Wellcome Collection                           https://www.flamingoland.co.uk/virtu
                                           https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=r           al-tour/                             • Smithsonian, Washington DC
• Taj Mahal, Agra, India                   MGsprcVCAR                                                                           https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams
  https://tinyurl.com/qpz7vmt                                                          • Florida Aquarium
• The Great Wall Of China                                                                http://www.flaquarium.org/sea-span • Yellowstone National Park
                                                                                                                                https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/phot
  https://www.thechinaguide.com/desti                                                  • Hirakawa Zoo, Japan                    osmultimedia/virtualtours.htm
  nation/great-wall-of-china                                                             https://hirakawazoo.jp/animal/movie
• Tour of Rome, Italy
  https://tinyurl.com/s5vlzbc

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Mindfulness and Keeping Active Ideas and Apps
These are all available as apps too

Joe Wicks on YouTube or
BBC iPlayer
                                 Smiling Mind                     Cosmic Yoga – YouTube

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/   Short audio session to help      Yoga videos designed for
episode/m000h1z9/blue-peter-     with mindfulness                 kids aged 3+
were-staying-home?xtor=CS8-      https://app.smilingmind.co.au/
1000-[Discovery_Cards]-                                           www.youtube.com/user/co
[Multi_Site]-[SL07]-                                              smickidsyoga
[PS_IPLAYER~C~~P_BuePet
er:JoeWicks

BBC Supermovers                  Go Noodle – YouTube              Premier League Stars

Interactive videos to            Brainercise, dancing,            Videos and activities to
support with KS1 Maths,          strength and mindfulness         support Maths, Literacy,
literacy and PSHE and PE         videos – as well as videos       PSHE and PE
learning. Great for times        that are “just for fun”          www.plprimarystars.com
tables too                       www.youtube.com/user/G
www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supe         oNoodleGames/featured
rmovers

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Free Theatre and Drama                                 Fun and Educational

        Theatre                                            FUN
        5 streaming services to                            Meet a tiger up close and personal
        watch Broadway and West                            • Type in your phones Google
        End shows in your living                             browser “tiger” and scroll down
        room                                                 to view in 3D.
        https://www.londontheatre.c                        • Try with different animals
        o.uk/theatre-news/west-end-
        features/theatre-streaming-
        services-west-end-
        broadway-musicals

        Harry Potter                                       BBC website – Bitesize
        Expelliarmus boredom! JK                           • https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
        Rowling launches 'Harry                              (by age groupings)
        Potter at Home' hub for kids                       • Bitesize app available for both
        in lockdown.                                         iOs and Android users
        https://www.cnn.com/2020/0
        4/01/world/harry-potter-at-
        home-hub-jk-rowling-scli-
        intl-gbr/index.html

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Books: Links to Free Audio Books

                                                      https://www.audible.co.uk/search
  https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.                   ?keywords=free+children+books&
            com/elevenses/                               ref=a_hp_t1_header_search
                                                         (free audible books for kids)

                                                      http://www.audiobooktreasury.co
        https://www.storynory.com/
                                                        m/free-audiobooks/childrens/

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100+ things to do in Doors/in the Garden.
Please view in presentation mode to be able to use the hyperlinks

SENSORY PLAY

          Make Homemade Playdough                                      Make Rainbow Rice

  Make Homemade Slime. You may want to try
 some of our other fun slime recipes too like Fluffy                    Make Fake Snow
     Slime, Rainbow Slime, or Clear Slime

                  Make Play Mud                                        Make a Sensory Bin

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100+ things to do in Doors/in the Garden.
Please view in presentation mode to be able to use the hyperlinks

CRAFTS                                                                                             GAMES
• Make Paper Airplanes                        • Make a Sensory Bag                                 • Learn to Draw
• Salt Painting: We have a snowflake or       • Paint Leaves                                       • Put on a Play
  firework template                           • Make a Time Capsule                                • Make Indoor Hopscotch. Use masking
• Make Suncatchers                            • Make Button Art                                      tape to make your own hopscotch on
• Make handprint or leaf suncatchers                                                                 tiles in your own
                                              • Paint with Watercolors
• Make Salt Dough                                                                                  • Do a Family Chore Together
                                              • Color in a Coloring Book
• Make Sponge Stamps                          • Make Paper Crafts: Make paper                      • Have a Dance Party
• Make a Cereal Box Aquarium                    butterflies, paper sailboat, or paper              • Have a Tea Party
• Make Scratch Art                              flowers
                                                                                                   • Play with Water In a Bin With Toys
• Make Your Own Bookmarks: We have            • Build a Cardboard Castle
                                                                                                   • Set up a Play Store. Grab a shopping
  templates to make Minion, Olaf, Trolls or   • Our recycled crafts for kids book has a              basket and set up the merchandise. We
  Toy Story Bookmarks                           step-by-step tutorial to make your own               like this play cash register too!
• Paint Pet Rocks                               cardboard castle. See the book here.
                                                                                                   • Make a Sock Toss Game. Use
• Make Recycled Crayons                       • Make Tissue Box Monsters                             mismatched socks and fill them with
• Make Paper Boats                            • Make a Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly. More             beans or rice. Then try to see how
                                                toilet paper roll crafts: paper roll flower          many you can ‘score’ in a laundry
• Finger Paint                                  and butterfly, toilet paper roll flowers, toilet     basket.
• Make Friendship Bracelets                     paper roll monsters                                • Make Perler Bead Art
• Make a Bird Feeder                          • Stamp with Celery: Make celery flowers
                                                                                                   • Write in a Journal
                                                with the stumps of your celery.
• Make Paper Bag Puppets                                                                           • Use Dot Markers
                                              • Draw a Self Portrait
• Make Handprint Art
                                              • Do Scrape Painting
• Make a Scrapbook
                                              • Paint a Recycled Jar
• Decorate T-Shirts
                                              • Make Your Own Superhero Costume
• Make a Thankful Jar

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100+ things to do in Doors/in the Garden.
Please view in presentation mode to be able to use the hyperlinks

ACTIVITIES                                                                                  EDUCATIONAL
• Build a Fort                                 • Learn to Draw                              • Read Books
• Have a Pillow Fight                          • Put on a Play                              • Do a Science Project
• Write a Story                                • Make Indoor Hopscotch. Use masking         • Learn Origami
                                                 tape to make your own hopscotch on tiles
• Make Ice Cream in a Bag                                                                   • Learn About a New Animal
                                                 in your own
• Make Homemade Gummy Bears                                                                 • Learn a New Card Game
                                               • Do a Family Chore Together
• Make Fruit Roll-Ups                                                                       • Learn to Sew
                                               • Have a Dance Party
• Have a Movie Day                                                                          • Learn to Knit
                                               • Have a Tea Party
• Put on a Fashion Show                                                                     • Do Brain Teasers
                                               • Play with Water In a Bin With Toys
• Bake Cupcakes or Muffins                                                                  • Learn About a Country
                                               • Set up a Play Store. Grab a shopping
• Do Yoga                                        basket and set up the merchandise. We
                                                 like this play cash register too!
• Build an Obstacle Course
                                               • Make a Sock Toss Game. Use
• Make Dinner Together
                                                 mismatched socks and fill them with
• Play with Magnetic Tiles                       beans or rice. Then try to see how many
                                                 you can ‘score’ in a laundry basket.
• Build Something With Lego: You can even
  make your own travel lego case!         • Make Perler Bead Art
• Build a Stack of Cards                       • Write in a Journal
• Put on a Puppet Show                         • Use Dot Markers
• Make a Treasure Hunt
• Make Your Own Indoor Bowling. Use
  paper towel rolls as your bowling pins and
  use a ball to bowl

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100+ things to do in Doors/in the Garden

                                  Fill a jam jar of things you want
                                                                        Paint a fence outside with
        Indoor obstacle race           to do when you’re out of
                                                                                  water
                                              lockdown

                                                                           Home Workhours for
   Put old wallpaper on a fence                                               Lockdown
     and let them do outdoor          Hand/foot print animals
              painting                                                https://www.facebook.com/groups/1
                                                                       41368677202953/?fref=mentions

                                     Create your own NHS              Create a den you can sleep in
           Tic toc video          dedication (lego, chalk, draw,      – have sleep overs in sibling’s
                                         paint, collage)                        bedroom

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100+ things to do in doors / in the garden

Indoor Scavenger Hunt – List items to find around
your house or garden.
• ______________________
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100+ things to do in doors / in the garden

Rainbow Scavenger hunt - List colourful items to
find around your house or garden.
• ______________________
• ______________________
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100+ things to do in doors / in the garden

Book Scavenger Hunt - List books to find around
your house or garden.
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