Maypole Madness Fun Activity Pack for the May Bank Holidays - May 2020
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Maypole Madness Fun Activity Pack for the May Bank Holidays May 2020
Maypole Madness Pack
“Feelings are much like
waves, we can’t stop them
from coming but we can “Do something for your head,
choose which ones to surf” your health, and your heart
each day”
Jonatan Mårtensson.
Mark Lehman,
Head of Learning, Talent and Inclusion,
Marsh UK&I
MARSHContents
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
energies high and boredom low over the bank holiday weekends.
Amazing
Managing the
Attractions
Bank Holidays,
Children, and
Workloads. Recipe
Corner
Garden and
Outdoor
Helping Children Activities
Understand Fitness Connecting
COVID-19 with Family
Activities for and Friends
Younger Virtually
Children
Indoor
Activities Evening and
Weekend Fun
MARSHManaging the Holidays, Children, Family, and Workloads
Tips
Take time away from the Focus on your work/key Mute social media apps if
people you are isolating with. tasks rather than the hours they become too much.
Go for a run/bike ride/walk, you are doing.
read a book in another room,
or take a bath.
Plan your day and be Be kind to yourself whether If its possible − take holidays.
mindful to take the pressure you have children or not. At the end of the day or at
off yourself. weekends turn your laptop off
and put it away.
Give yourself a hard stop and
don’t feel guilty about it.
MARSH 04 May 2020 3Helping Children Understand Covid-19
Stay at Home Heroes My Hero is You
Lucy’s in Lockdown Nosy Crow
MARSH 04 May 2020 4Garden and Outdoor Activities
Don’t Forget Your Sun Cream
Great websites:
Wildlife Trust: RSPB: National History Museum:
hiips://www.wildlifetrusts.org/ hiips://www.rspb.org.uk/ hiips://www.nhm.ac.uk/
Ideas:
• Create a wild garden. • Shooting water into buckets. • Make mud pies.
• Camp in the garden. • Make a time capsule and bury
• Make a bee hotel or a bat box.
• Sleep out on the trampoline. it in the garden.
• Press flowers and leaves. • Water fight! • Nature sketching.
• Garden bird bingo. • Paint stones/positive pebbles • Skipping games.
for the NHS. • Wash the car.
• Create a bird house and feeder • Make petal perfume.
• Make a fairy garden or
with a milk carton. • Paint an old bed sheet.
dinosaur garden.
• Bird nests and feeders. • Ice cube fun; Create a giant ice • Make paper boats.
cube and fill with small toys – • Garden art; Make an outdoor
• Fairy tale scavenger hunt. picture from what you can find
the children can make it melt to
• Star gazing. get to the treasure inside! Or in the garden.
you can put a plastic toy in a • Junk modelling; If space
• Chalk challenge.
food bag, fill with (coloured) allows, make a boat or pirate
water and freeze. ship with your junk boxes!
5
MARSHIndoor Activities
Things to do: Games:
• How to make snow May blossom globes. • Design your own superhero, the world they come
from, and make a costume to go with it. Then
• Create a hygge corner.
save the galaxy!
• Make toilet roll animals.
• Touch and feel box – guess the objects in the
• Make your own theatre/opera house. box without peeping.
• Dinosaur activities. • Cardboard nail painting − draw around your
children’s hands, draw on some finger nails, and
• Make an erupting volcano.
let your children paint on the nails.
• Stained glass paper craft.
• Who am I? – You’ll need a sheet of labels, write
• History Royal Palaces the name of a famous person and stick it on
another person’s forehead. Ask yes/no questions
• Create a time capsule.
to guess who you are.
• Paint with coffee.
• Blind drawing – two players sit back to back with
• Create a mosaic picture of yourself. one only giving unrelated words to draw the
object, e.g. if drawing a flower, rather than saying
• Create your own family photo shoot.
“draw a petal”, you might say “draw hearts in a
• Make sock puppets. circle”.
• Design your own family coat of arms.
MARSH 04 May 2020 6Activities for Younger Children
Sensory play
• Colour hunt – get children to separate out the • Timed tower building – who can build the tallest
different colours on a tray. tower in the allotted time?
• Letter hunt – send children to find something • Write the outline of your child’s name, add blobs
beginning with a letter of the alphabet and of paint, and let them finger-paint the colours
encourage them to describe it, e.g. the pointy together.
pencil.
• Put blobs of paint in a Ziploc and let children
• Shape hunt – encourage children to find objects mash the paint together.
that look like shapes – square, circle, cylinder,
triangle. • Tray Play – freeze toys in water and let your child
free their frozen toys.
• Cheerio/spaghetti threading – stick spaghetti into
bananas and thread Cheerios onto them. • Paint a rainbow.
• Kiddy pong – put out cups/paper plates and some • Create a mud kitchen.
balls (or scrunched up paper – challenge the
children to throw the balls into the cups.
MARSH 04 May 2020 7Evening and Weekend Fun for the Family you Live With
Activities: Events:
• Invite your family to a formal dinner/black tie British Cheese Weekender: 8-10 May
meal.
• “Step this way for a bank holiday cheese
• Ask your children to wait on you for the night! nirvana! Taking place from 8-10 May (Fri-Sun),
the inaugural British Cheese Weekender is a
• Lockdown safari supper − everybody in the free, online cheese festival featuring live-
family makes a course. streamed talks, tastings, farm tours, quizzes,
• Create your family’s mock tail. and cookery demos by some of the country's
leading cheese experts.” (Academy of Cheese,
• Have a country themed night – go online, chose 2020).
a country’s flag and other typical images, dress
according to the country, eat the country’s food,
dance to their music, watch a film connected with Watch dance, opera, and theatre
the country. performances from around the world
• Card games night. • Marquee TV, “a streaming service for dance,
• Board game night. opera, music, documentaries and theatre from
places like The Royal Ballet Company, The
• Hold an “afternoon tea” party. Royal Shakespeare Company, and Opera
Zurich.” (Marquee TV, 2020).
• Musical statues.
MARSH 04 May 2020 8Fitness
Great websites: Ideas:
• NHS fitness: • The outdoor daily walk challenge.
hiips://www.nhs.uk/conditions/
nhs-fitness-studio/ • Handstand challenge – challenge a friend to do a handstand every
day.
• Review of the best fitness
apps to keep in shape while • Create your own sports day.
on lockdown: • Create an obstacle course.
hiips:// www wired co.uk/article/
best-fitness-workout-apps • Design your own Olympic games.
• Give back – go out for a walk and litter pick.
• Learn to hula hoop.
• Have a step competition with friends – 10,000 steps a day is the
recommended daily amount. Can you beat it?
MARSH 9Connecting with Family and Friends Virtually Virtual things to do: • Quiz night – each participant creates a round or nominate a quiz master to host it! • Host an online bingo night. • Virtual cheese and wine tasting night. • Create a music playlist and hold a virtual dance party. • Join a Netflix Party. It’s the new way to watch Netflix with your friends online. • Organise book club chats – read a book a week and meet up virtually to discuss. • Bucket list challenge – share your bucket list ideas. • Contact a friend or family member you have been thinking about and send them an email. • Play “two truths and one lie” via video conferencing. • Guess the baby photo. The host collects baby photos and a clue from each friend and challenges the rest to guess. • Virtual scrabble. The classic word game is known and beloved all over the world. There are app versions – that can played with friends. • Create a “pets’ pictures” virtual chat group and share pictures and funny stories about your pets. MARSH 04 May 2020 10
Recipe Corner
Muffins (12 small; 8 large) Butternut Squash Soup – with left-over fun for children
• 140g sugar (granulated or castor; brown or white). • 1 butternut squash roughly chopped. Discard the stalky ends; put the
• 100g softened butter. seeds to one side.
• Beat these two together until they are soft and creamy. • 2 white onions roughly chopped.
• 2 medium to large eggs – beaten together in a cup. • A thumbnail of fresh ginger – peeled and roughly chopped.
• Add these gradually to the sugar and butter – beating all the time. Do • 3 cloves of garlic – peeled and roughly chopped.
this very gradually. • 1 chilli (red for hot; green for milder) – seeds removed and roughly
• Next, beat in 100-120g of yoghurt (any yoghurt). If you have vanilla chopped.
essence add a teaspoon here. • Gently fry everything on a low heat with a little oil – you don’t want
anything to brown, just soften which will bring out the flavours (or place
For Chocolate Muffin: in a roasting tray with a little oil; put in at about 150c for 30-40 minutes
– keep an eye to make sure they don’t brown).
• Add 200g of plain flour combined with 50g of chocolate powder
(anything from a good quality chocolate or drinking chocolate) and 1.5 • Now transfer ingredients into a large saucepan and cover with cold
teaspoon of baking powder. water. Add a vegetable stock cube. Bring to the blow slowly and then
gently simmer for an hour and a half. You might have to top up the
• Add 100g of chopped chocolate of your choice – milk, dark, white,
water.
chocolate nibs, fudge, or a combination of any of these.
• Once everything is nice and soft use whatever blender you have to
For Blueberry (or any other berry muffin): blend to a silky smooth liquid. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Add 250g of plain flour - with 1.5 teaspoons of baking powder. • This will last in the fridge for about 5 days.
• Add about 120g berries at the end.
For the children
• If your mixture is too thick, add a little drop of milk.
• Take some of the seeds.
• Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases evenly (approx. 60g into a
• Place in small seed pots (7.5cm) or a seed tray (nicely spaced – about
small muffin case; 100g into a large muffin case).
8am apart) with some all-purpose or potting compost. sow them about
• Bake in a preheated oven 180c (170c for fan oven). Check after 10 1.5cm deep. Place in a warm room with plenty of light. They will start
minutes; rotate tray if they are not baking evenly; bake for another 5-6 to sprout within a week – very satisfying!
minutes.
• These can then be transferred into bigger planter or out into the
garden end May or early June.
MARSHAmazing Attractions
A list of museums, zoos, and other attractions from around the world to visit from the comforts of
your home while self-isolating.
Museums
• Anne Franke Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands • National Gallery Of Arts, Washington DC • The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United
hiips://www.annefrank.org/en/museum/web -and- hiips://www.nga.gov/ States
digital/ hiips://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the -j-paul-
• National Gallery, London getty-museum
• British Museum, London hiips://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual -
hiips://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/ tours • The Museum of Flight -
hiips://museumofflight.org/Explore -The-
• Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain • National Museum Of US Air Forces Museum/Virtual-Museum-Online
hiips://www.guggenheim -bilbao.eus/en hiips://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
• The National Museum of Computing on
• Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia • Natural History Museum, London Bletchley Park
hiips://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YeFsx1rIw&fe hiips://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/the - hiips://britishart.yale.edu/
ature=youtu.be natural-history-museum-hintze-
hall/yQHjHCmSOMKyhQ • Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
• Louvre Museum, Paris hiips://artsandculture.google.com/partner/uffizi -
hiips://www.louvre.fr/en/visites -en-ligne • Palestine Museum gallery
hiips://www.palmuseum.org/ehxibitions/virtual -
• MASP, Sao Paolo, Brazil exhibitions • US Holocaust Museum
hiips://masp.org.br/en hiips://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/onlin
• Picasso Museum, Barcelona e-exhibitions
• Met Museum, New York hiip://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/museum/pres
hiips://www.metmuseum.org/art/online - entation.html • Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
features/met-360-project hiips://artsandculture.google.com/partner/van -gogh-
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands museum
• Musée d’Orsay, Paris hiips://artsandculture.google.com/partner/rijksmuse
hiips://m.musee -orsay.fr/en/home.html um • Virginia Living Museum
• Musei Vaticani, Vatican City hiips://thevlm.org/visit/about -us/covid-19-
• Royal Academy Of Arts, London update/natural-education/
hiip://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/e hiips://britishart.yale.edu/
n/collezioni/musei/tour-virtuali-elenco.html • Women's History Museum, Virginia, USA
• Salvatore Dali Museum, Figueres, Spain hiips://www.womenshistory.org/womens -
• Museum Of London Docklands hiips://www.salvador -dali.org/en/museums/dali-
hiips:// 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 hiips://britishart.yale.edu/
hiips://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate -
britain/display/walk-through-british-art
MARSH 04 May 2020 12Amazing Attractions
A list of museums, zoos, and other attractions from around the world to visit from the comforts of
your home while we self-isolate.
Tourist Destinations General Sites Zoos
• Buckingham Palace, London • AirPano • African Animals • International Wolf Centre
hiips://www.royal.uk/virtual -tours- hiips://www.airpano.com/ hiips://explore.org/livecams/african - hiips://wolf.org/wolf -cams2/
buckingham-palace wildlife/african-animal-lookout-
• Berliner Philharominker camera • Kansas City Zoo
• Colosseum, Rome hiips://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/ hiips://www.kansascityzoo.org/oura
hiips://tinyurl.com/thrprzf home • Atlanta Zoo nimals/list-of-animals/king-penguin/
• Machu Picchu, Peru hiips://zooatlanta.org/panda -cam/
• ExoPlanets NASA • Melbourne Zoo
hiips://www.youvisit.com/tour/machu hiips://exoplanets.nasa.gov/ • Cincinnati Zoo hiips://www.zoo.org.au/animal -
picchu?pl=f hiips://www.facebook.com/events/2 house
• Legoland 915534028492292/
• Northern Lights hiips://www.legoland.dk/en/accommo • National Aquarium, USA
hiips://explore.org/livecams/aurora - dation/hotel-legoland/virtual-tour/ • Dublin Zoo hiips://www.aqua.org/Experience/liv
borealis-northern-lights/northern- hiips://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/an e
lights-cam • NASA, Langley Research Centre imal-webcams/elephants/
hiips://oh.larc.nasa.gov/oh/ • National Zoo, Washington DC
• Pyramids • Edinburgh Zoo hiips://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams
hiips://www.tripsavvy.com/virtual - • The Kennedy Centre hiips://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/w
field-trip-pyramids-1259200 hiips://www.kennedy - ebcams/panda-cam/ • Osaka Zoo
center.org/digitalstage/ hiip://www.wombat -tv.com/
• Stonehenge • Explore.org Live Cams
hiips://tinyurl.com/wz3xgz7 • Walt Disney Parks hiips://explore.org/livecams • San Diego, California, Zoo
hiips://tinyurl.com/v7qano5 hiips://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live -
• Street Art with Google • Flamingo Land cams
hiips://streetart.withgoogle.com/en/ • Wellcome Collection hiips://www.flamingoland.co.uk/virtu
hiips://my.matterport.com/show/?m=r al-tour/ • Smithsonian, Washington DC
• Taj Mahal, Agra, India MGsprcVCAR hiips://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams
hiips://tinyurl.com/qpz7vmt • Florida Aquarium
hiip://www.flaquarium.org/sea -span • Yellowstone National Park
• The Great Wall Of China hiips://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/phot
hiips://www.thechinaguide.com/desti • Hirakawa Zoo, Japan osmultimedia/virtualtours.htm
nation/great-wall-of-china hiips://hirakawazoo.jp/animal/movie
• Tour of Rome, Italy
hiips://tinyurl.com/s5vlzbc
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