This is more for older children than Nursery age but there is no reason they cannot join in with their brothers and sisters

If times get tough and you don’t want your children to be using the computer to play games all day,  or watching television, instead of being frustrated, recognise the opportunity to spend quality time with them,  teaching them life skills ….such as getting the children to:

Email relatives (Language skills)

Put some tins out on the windowsill and some pennies in their hand. Let one be the shopkeeper and the others customers (maths and manners)

Show them how to make a bed properly
Have a family housework day when all of you clean together (life skills)

Sit round the kitchen table and find a YouTube french, Spanish etc… language lesson that you can all say out loud together (Languages)

All prepare and cook a dinner together with everyone having their own task, or bake and decorate cup cakes (Home economics)

Download a Horrible History box set and watch it together (History)

Show them a world map and ask them to take turns on the computer to research the country they like the sound of the most (Geography)

Get some paper and colouring pencils and have a competition for who can draw and colour the best monster (Art)

Remind them of your favourite fairytale (example 3 little pigs) then ask them to recreate it in a little play or ask them all to practice in private a song or dance and perform it in a show with you as the MC and everybody must clap and cheer (Drama, support and kindness)

Everyone gets to choose their favourite book and together all take turns to read a paragraph, everyone has to do the character’s voice (building confidence)

On a sunny day all go in the garden and give everyone a job to clear and tidy it ready for summer (gardening)

It doesn’t cost anything really except your time. The richness of these memories at the end of the isolated time together will be priceless…

Enjoy!