Toy Theatre is a collection of interactive educational games and they are all free and designed to work on desktop computer, tablets and mobile device.
- Set up shop- why not use items from around your home to play shops for the day. You can use costumes, food items, miscellaneous items from around the shop. Use paper to design own money and to make tags to make up prices. Fun activity to also develop number skills.
- Have a dress- up day- let your children select what they will wear for the day, they could even dress you.
- Why not test your jigsaw skills at home. Cut up the front off your old cereal boxes and see if you can piece them back together.
-Crepe/toilet paper spiders web course- criss cross it from one wall to another, leaving just small gaps for the kids to climb through. See if they can make it through the course without tearing the paper.
- Pebble Art- decorate a pebble and leave it somewhere during your daily walk, take a picture and send it to the website to see if our friends can find our pebble, once you have found it take a picture to see how many people can find it, dont pick up as our other friends might be out to look for it.
Use felt tips or paints to decorate them however they want - some making funny faces out of them.
wallpaper/chalk people- If you've got an old roll of wallpaper, or any other paper for that matter, lie your little one down on it and draw around them. They might also want to make a wallpaper mum, dad or sibling too.
- Make your own puppet to put on a puppet show- you may already have a puppet show or some puppets you could use inside a cardboard box. If not, then get an old sock, paper bag, wooden/plastic spoon and make your own. Whether you have some stick-on googly eyes or just some scraps of paper, you can make your own character that your child will love.
The Natural History museum of Los Angeles also provide some shadow puppet templates to make some rawrsome shadow puppets. Link is https://nhmlac.org/make-your-own-dinosaur-shadow-puppet-and-screen
- Toy Theatre is a collection of interactive educational games for children. They are all free and designed to work on computers, tablets and mobile devices. Animate your own story, practice your puzzle skills, learn how to draw your numbers or make a lovely picture using drawing tools/stickers.
This website very good as goes across all curriculum areas and loads of different games etc in each area to do. Link is https://toytheater.com/
- Writing own name- ask parents to help you write the letters and try and follow it with stickers, beads, cereal or decorate your name with collage materials.
- Invite your favourite book or tv character, read/watch with your children what they ate in the book/show eg: tiger that came to tea, use google 3d animals to have a real tiger come for tea- sandwiches, cake, tea, spongebob squarepants- crabby patties (burgers) you, peppa pigs yummy food episode, pj masks supper, before they go to save the world, unicorn/rainbow milkshake cookies etc.
- https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/live-cams this is a link for San Diego zoo you can see their live butterfly cam, and find instructions on how to make a butterfly garden.
