OLD CareRing children activities

Rampton CareRing - suggestions for isolation activities with children

Here are a few activity ideas if you are isolating ...or even if it is just raining! If you have more please send them to [email protected] and we'll add them to the list

STAY SAFE - check this guide to protecting your children online

ACTIVE and ENERGISED

ACTIVITIES

  • Iceberger - draw an iceberg and see how it would float
  • Wildlife Watch activities - lots of great activities: things to make, make an animal mask, colouring, spotter sheets and much more
  • Raspberry Pi Projects - What would you like to make today? Games? A website? Music? A robot? Digital Art?
  • Build a City with Architecture From Home by architects Foster+Partners who have created templates to enable children (or adults!) to build paper buildings - houses, skyscrapers etc. Scroll down their News page to find - between 1st April and 14 May 2020.
  • Creative activity ideas for ages 7-14 from Oxfam
  • Hear the world like never before with Nature Soundmap - dusk chorus from Malaysia, a booming Bittern on the Norfolk Broads, lions in Tanzania, Black Redstart in Kazakhstan and many more
  • Join the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for family friendly challenges - have a samba in your kitchen and more 
  • The National Space Centre has fabulous space crafts to try and lots of cool videos via their National Space Centre’s Youtube and Facebook channels
  • Send a free Quentin Blake rainbow E-card to cheer somebody up
  • Home Learning Hub The Learn Together Cambridgeshire Education Team has pulled out the stops to create a one stop shop packed full of exciting challenges, lessons and activities. Could you design your own town from scratch, or name 20 famous literary characters from the photos? The resources go right across the full school age range, but should inspire the inner child within all of us.
  • Lego scavenger hunt for Lego minifigures. Use the lego figures you already have because any figures will work. This is basically an instant scavenger hunt. All you’ll need to do is print the cards and hide some lego guys
  • Why not spend one of your home school sessions teaching your children how and when to dial 999? The East of England Ambulance Service have added a downloadable colouring book and comic to their website to help children understand the difference between a big and little emergency, as well as what to expect if they do need to call for help.
  • Science with Konnie Huq - educational but entertaining, low tech but fun 
  • Pesky pirates have stolen the Olympic Rings! Can you find them and bring them back?  Follow the Treasure trail
  • Make a Lego air hockey table it really works    
  • Gruffalo activity sheets from Forest England
  • Zog activity sheets from Forest England
  • Highway Rat activity sheets from Forest England
  • James and the Giant Peach activity sheets from Forest England
  • Make a paper horse that actually WALKS on its own! This project requires an adult or teen to help
  • Make a toilet roll Keepy Uppy video  - like this one
  • Geography games for school-age children. Test your knowledge of Planet Earth.
  • Science from Scrap - download worksheets for these fabulous experiments from our Sustainable Vision event
  • Hundreds: download our pdf of things you can do involving 100. What can you build with 100 Lego bricks? Make a list of 100 inventions that have changed the world, Make a dot-to-dot picture using only 100 dots and many more
  • Kids Coding Club - free online every Friday for 6-14 year olds from Redgate Software.
  • 100 things to do indoors - free download
  • Maddie's online videos - a curiosity box full of family content. Films about science, wildlife, travel and engineering - educational adventures inspire children to #staycurious.
  • Make spinning tops with cardboard and marbles. Tops are well-balanced and spin for a really long time.
  • Make your own giant bubble solution. Using some basic supplies you can blow REALLY big bubbles! 
  • The Great Indoors brought to you by the Scouts
  • Art at Home - contests, museums, games, digital, education and "at home"
  • Online Astronomy talks and activities with the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge

ACTIVITIES for TEENS

BOOKS

NATURE

MUSIC, PLAYS and SINGING

MUSEUMS

 

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