Indoor activities for children, tweens and teens

Enjoy Education have some top tips for you on how to keep your children entertained whilst at home!

One of our brilliant primary school teachers, Jessie, has recommended some fantastic resources for this age group:

Den building
Have a birthday party for a favourite toy
A scavenger hunt around the home
Life size drawings with lots of A4 paper taped together (draw around your sibling!)
Recreate some old-school game shows like the Crystal Maze
Start a new paper mâché craft
Hunt for some stones and do some rock painting
Bake a new cookie recipe and decorate them with your family’s faces
Lead an indoor fashion show with old clothes worn in a new way
Start a research project and make a poster full of pictures, articles, spider diagrams on the subject

Create a TV show, film it on a phone and play it for your to the whole family one evening
Have a home cinema night, complete with hot dogs and popcorn
Dig out the old board games, or even design your own
Create a shadow shapes play with hand puppets, cut out stick characters, or even just your hands
Make special cards for family members and send them to show them you are thinking of them
Have a Lego building contest
Start a scrapbook
Learn how to play chess

The team at Enjoy are HUGE Ted Talk fans! We recommend checking out the following talks:

OK GO: OK Go fearlessly dream and build new worlds in a time when creative boundaries have all but dissolved.

Manoush Zomorodi: How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas.

Have you tried Ted-Ed Riddles? We recommend trying to solve them! They are great!

Find yourself a pen pal or take part in Post Crossing
Learn to bake or bake a ‘show-stopper’
Start a portfolio about your passion; this could be art, photography or your sporting achievements
Start a family history project and create your own family tree
Get your family involved in your own curated home film festival (with themes!)
Make your own beauty products including home-made face masks and soaps
Create a stop motion film and learn the technique from an online tutor or through YouTube tutorials
Teach yourself photography using any old cameras that you have in the house.
Submit an entry to a poetry competition
Start a gratitude journal
Plan a charity fundraiser
Practice your touch typing with Typing Club

Create your own book club with friends around the world and FaceTime them to discuss the book on a monthly basis
Try some new books on Audible
Design your own logo and print or paint into onto a blank t-shirt or tote bag
Invent a new flavour pizza and make your own home-made base
Write letters to family members who live far away and update them on your year so far
Research internships/work experience ready for the summer holidays
Learn a new language with an online tutor
Start a YouTube channel about your favourite interest
Learn how to blog
Start an online coding course
Teach yourself calligraphy and make some birthday cards ready for the year
Write a script for a movie or play
Create some checklists that would make your life easier like a bag packing checklist or revision checklist