Read Shel Silverstein online and then write silly poems like he does
Create a dance routine to a favorite KidzBop song
Write a rap about the period table of elements, (or the Greek alphabet, or mutiplication tables)
Film your rap on TikTok or SnapChat or Facebook live
Plant a container garden
Do a multi-week experiment about what kind of music helps your container garden grow faster, (find a “scientific method” chart online to help with recording their hypothesis and testing it)
Detail the inside of the car
Video chat grandma
Teach grandma how to use her video chat first
Read big books together (Harry Potter, Narnia, Animal Farm, Moby Dick, Alice in Wonderland)
Do YouTube videos for family meditation
Do online exercise videos from LesMills or your local YMCA
Measure all the things
Design charts to show the measurements
Create a stop-action film with Legos or play dough or stuffed animals (or, if you really enjoy Bob’s Burgers, with a pound of raw hamburger)
Write a movie script, design sets with items on hand, film it, post it online
Let them find Pinterest activities they can do with common household items
Build the Best. Fort. Ever.
Draw their own comic books
Make salt dough and play with it
Memorize something (Scripture verses, your favorite monologue from a movie, the preamble to the Constitution, all 50 states in alphabetical order)
Hide Easter eggs around the house
Do old fashioned calisthenics
Organize toys (NOT YOU… let them do it and then be okay with how they do it)
Create a time capsule to open in 10 years
Bury it in the back yard
Hide a “treasure” and then make a treasure map for others to find it
Use paper plates or construction paper to make giant Scrabble letters and play word games
Help change the oil in the car
Learn how to change a flat tire
Do easy science projects like eggs in various liquids, or testing air pollution, or the effect of germs on bread (all on Pinterest plus a million more)
