Fun at Home

Kitchen roll tubes dipped in paint, squeeze the end for different effects. You can cut them before dipping in paint to create a different effect too
Vehicles run through paint to see tracks on paper
Treasure baskets – add household items to a basket/box for them to explore i.e. whisk, wooden spoon, old mobile phone, old tv remote
Saucepans and baking trays make great musical instruments when hit with a wooden spoon
Painting with water on a paving slab
Playing with coloured ice
Reading
Singing nursery rhymes
Copying facial expressions
Play peek-a-boo
Playing with bubble wrap to make it pop
Making a guessing bag, put toys in and let them feel and guess what it is
Offer different senses toys touch (rough sandpaper, soft toys, bottles etc) sound (toys, bag of coins, sounds on a phone etc)

Then perhaps try:

Things that can be dipped in paint for different effects; balloons, forks, corks, cotton reels, cotton buds, lego bricks, plastic animal feet, hands, fingers, leaves, twigs etc
Cars with pens taped to the back for making marks
Scraps of coloured paper, tissue paper, felt, foam, faux fur for collaging
Looking for colours
Mark making with chalks, pencils, felt-tip pens, crayons
Drawing with chalk on the floor and wash it all away
Reading stories and then creating a story box or bag, putting in what the children use to represent the characters
A large empty box as a train, car, spaceship or something else to transport you far away on an adventure
Singing songs and nursery rhymes
Sorting small toys into an egg box by colour, shape or size

Finding shapes in the room
Finding the letters from their names in stories
Suncatchers made with tissue paper
Paper plates/boxes with numbers on, can they add the correct number of pom poms/balls
Junk modelling, any boxes, tubes etc glued or taped together
Old wallpaper taped to the floor for drawing or painting
Painting on tin foil
Teach children how to dress and undress ready for school
Encourage children to develop their self-help skills for school
Read favourite stories and ask the child/ren to retell in their own way. Make a story box or
bag using different things to represent the characters in the story
Describe what is happening in a picture book
Dressing up in adult clothes
Pencil control sheets as found on Twinkl
Make up their own story and the adults can write it down
Cutting activities

Listen to the sounds you hear in the garden and compare them to those you hear on a walk
Play leaf bingo by collecting some leaves and then match by describing the leaves
Build a den in the garden
Make a daisy chain
Make a leaf or bark rubbing
Make ice cubes with herbs
A large empty box as a train, car, spaceship or something else to transport you far away on
an adventure
Blow bubbles in the garden and count how long until the pop
Make shadow creatures, this may need some help online for guidance!
Play pooh sticks on a walk
Make a leaf crown
Make an obstacle course
Make a time capsule
Go cloud spotting
Make a treasure map
Play leapfrog
Play hopscotch
Make and play skittles
Count spots on a ladybird
Sorting through unwanted toys
Split toys in to groups and swap them around each week to give child a variety of toys

Try some of these links too:

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy | BookTrust

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