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fun with the family Family Activity Pack welcome to brighter
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 attractions- museums, tourist destinations, general sites, zoos
Mindfulness and
keeping active -
ideas and apps
Books: links to free audio Theater and drama
books
Fun and educational 100+ things to do indoors/in the garden
2Amazing 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, • National Gallery Of Arts, Washington DC • The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles,
Netherlands https://www.nga.gov/ United States
https://www.annefrank.org/en/museum/web-and- https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-j-
digital/ • National Gallery, London paul-getty-museum
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-
• British Museum, London tours • The Museum of Flight -
https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/ https://museumofflight.org/Explore-The-
• National Museum Of US Air Forces Museum/Virtual-Museum-Online
• Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en • The National Museum of Computing on
• Natural History Museum, London Bletchley Park
• Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/the- https://britishart.yale.edu/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YeFsx1rIw natural-history-museum-hintze-
&feature=youtu.be hall/yQHjHCmSOMKyhQ • Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/uffizi-
• Louvre Museum Paris • Palestine Museum gallery
https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne https://www.palmuseum.org/ehxibitions/virtual-
exhibitions • US Holocaust Museum
• MASP, Sao Paolo, Brazil https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/on
https://masp.org.br/en • Picasso Museum, Barcelona line-exhibitions
http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/museum/pre
• Met Museum, New York sentation.html • Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online- https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/van-
features/met-360-project • Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands gogh-museum
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/rijksmu
• Musée d’Orsay, Paris seum • Virginia Living Museum
https://m.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html https://thevlm.org/visit/about-us/covid-19-
• Royal Academy Of Arts, London update/natural-education/
• Musei Vaticani, Vatican City https://britishart.yale.edu/
http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivatican • Women's History Museum, Virginia, USA
i/en/collezioni/musei/tour-virtuali-elenco.html • Salvatore Dali Museum, Figueres, Spain https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-
https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/dali- history/online-exhibits
• Museum Of London Docklands theatre-museum-in-figueres/visita-virtual/#
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/about- • Yale Centre For British Art
us/business-services/venue-hire/museum-london- • Tate Britain, London https://britishart.yale.edu/
docklands/virtual-tour https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-
britain/display/walk-through-british-art 3Amazing 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 General Sites Zoos
Destinations
• 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/ https://www.kansascityzoo.org/oura
https://tinyurl.com/thrprzf en/home • Atlanta Zoo nimals/list-of-animals/king-penguin/
https://zooatlanta.org/panda-cam/
• Machu Picchu • ExoPlanets NASA • Melbourne Zoo
https://www.youvisit.com/tour/mach https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/ • Cincinnati Zoo https://www.zoo.org.au/animal-
upicchu?pl=f https://www.facebook.com/events/2 house
• Legoland 915534028492292/
• Northern Lights https://www.legoland.dk/en/accom • National Aquarium, USA
https://explore.org/livecams/aurora- modation/hotel-legoland/virtual- • Dublin Zoo https://www.aqua.org/Experience/li
borealis-northern-lights/northern- tour/ https://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/a ve
lights-cam nimal-webcams/elephants/
• NASA, Langley Research Centre • National Zoo, Washington DC
• Pyramids https://oh.larc.nasa.gov/oh/ • Edinburgh https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams
https://www.tripsavvy.com/virtual- Zoohttps://www.edinburghzoo.org.u
field-trip-pyramids-1259200 • The Kennedy Centre k/webcams/panda-cam/ • Osaka Zoo
https://www.kennedy- http://www.wombat-tv.com/
• Stonehenge center.org/digitalstage/ • Explore.org Live Cams
https://tinyurl.com/wz3xgz7 https://explore.org/livecams • San Diego, California, Zoo
• Walt Disney Parks https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-
• Street Art with Google https://tinyurl.com/v7qano5 • Flamingo Land cams
https://streetart.withgoogle.com/en/ https://www.flamingoland.co.uk/virt
• Wellcome Collection ual-tour/ • Smithsonian, Washington DC
• Taj Mahal, Agra, India https://my.matterport.com/show/?m https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams
https://tinyurl.com/qpz7vmt =rMGsprcVCAR • Florida Aquarium
http://www.flaquarium.org/sea-span • Yellowstone National Park
• The Great Wall Of China https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/phot
https://www.thechinaguide.com/des • Hirakawa Zoo, Japan osmultimedia/virtualtours.htm
tination/great-wall-of-china https://hirakawazoo.jp/animal/movie
• Tour of Rome, Italy
https://tinyurl.com/s5vlzbc 4Mindfulness and keeping active
Ideas and Apps
Joe Wicks – Cosmic Yoga –
Smiling Mind
YouTube or BBC iPlayer YouTube
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ Short audio session to Yoga videos designed for
episode/m000h1z9/blue-peter- help with mindfulness kids aged 3+
were-staying-home?xtor=CS8-
1000-[Discovery_Cards]- https://app.smilingmind.co.au/ www.youtube.com/user/co
[Multi_Site]-[SL07]- smickidsyoga
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er:JoeWicks
Go Noodle –
BBC Supermovers Premier League Stars
YouTube
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/sup oNoodleGames/featured
ermovers
5Free Theatre & Drama
5 streaming services to Expelliarmus boredom! JK
watch Broadway and West Rowling launches 'Harry
End shows in your living Potter at Home' hub for
room kids in lockdown
https://www.londontheatre.co. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/
uk/theatre-news/west-end- 01/world/harry-potter-at-home-
features/theatre-streaming- hub-jk-rowling-scli-intl-
services-west-end-broadway- gbr/index.html
musicals
6Free Audio Books
https://www.audible.co.uk/search
https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.
?keywords=free+children+books&
com/elevenses/
ref=a_hp_t1_header_search
http://www.audiobooktreasury.co
https://www.storynory.com/
m/free-audiobooks/childrens/
7Fun and Educational
Ideas
Meet a tiger up close and BBC website –
personal Bitesize
• Type in your phones • https://www.bbc.co.uk/bi
Google browser “tiger” tesize (by age
and scroll down to view groupings)
in 3D.
• Bitesize app available
• Try with different for both iOs and Android
animals users
8100+ things to do indoors/in the garden
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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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Crafts Games
• Make Paper Airplanes • Make a Sensory Bag • Learn to Draw
• Salt Painting: We have a snowflake • Paint Leaves • Put on a Play
or firework template
• Make a Time Capsule • Make Indoor Hopscotch. Use
• Make Suncatchers masking tape to make your own
• Make Button Art
• Make handprint or leaf suncatchers hopscotch on tiles in your own
• Paint with Watercolors
• Make Salt Dough • Do a Family Chore Together
• Color in a Coloring Book
• Make Sponge Stamps • Have a Dance Party
• Make Paper Crafts: Make paper
• Make a Cereal Box Aquarium butterflies, paper sailboat, or paper • Have a Tea Party
flowers
• Make Scratch Art • Play with Water In a Bin With Toys
• Build a Cardboard Castle
• Make Your Own Bookmarks: We • Set up a Play Store. Grab a
have templates to make Minion, • Our recycled crafts for kids book shopping basket and set up the
Olaf, Trolls or Toy Story Bookmarks has a step-by-step tutorial to make merchandise. We like this play
your own cardboard castle. See the cash register too!
• Paint Pet Rocks
book here.
• Make Recycled Crayons • Make a Sock Toss Game. Use
• Make Tissue Box Monsters mismatched socks and fill them
• Make Paper Boats with beans or rice. Then try to see
• Make a Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly.
• Finger Paint More toilet paper roll crafts: paper how many you can ‘score’ in a
roll flower and butterfly, toilet paper laundry basket.
• Make Friendship Bracelets roll flowers, toilet paper roll • Make Perler Bead Art
• Make a Bird Feeder monsters
• Write in a Journal
• Make Paper Bag Puppets • Stamp with Celery: Make celery
• Make Handprint Art
flowers with the stumps of your • Use Dot Markers
celery.
• Make a Scrapbook • Draw a Self Portrait
• Decorate T-Shirts • Do Scrape Painting
• Make a Thankful Jar • Paint a Recycled Jar
• Make Your Own Superhero
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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 • Learn Origami
masking tape to make your own
• Make Ice Cream in a Bag hopscotch on tiles in your own • Learn About a New Animal
• Make Homemade Gummy Bears • Do a Family Chore Together • Learn a New Card Game
• Make Fruit Roll-Ups • Have a Dance Party • Learn to Sew
• Have a Movie Day • Have a Tea Party • Learn to Knit
• Put on a Fashion Show • Play with Water In a Bin With Toys • Do Brain Teasers
• Bake Cupcakes or Muffins • Set up a Play Store. Grab a • Learn About a Country
• Do Yoga shopping basket and set up the
merchandise. We like this play
• Build an Obstacle Course cash register too!
• Make Dinner Together • Make a Sock Toss Game. Use
mismatched socks and fill them
• Play with Magnetic Tiles
with beans or rice. Then try to see
• Build Something With Lego: You how many you can ‘score’ in a
can even make your own travel laundry basket.
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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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
Tik tok video dedication (lego, chalk, draw, – have sleep overs in sibling’s
paint, collage) bedroom
12Scavenger Hunts
Examples
Indoor hunt –
shout out
household items
Book hunt – for them to find
shout out
specific books
for them to find
Rainbow hunt –
shout out
specific colour
items for them
to find
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