Fun & Educational Activities That Your Children Can Explore At Home
With more lockdowns forcing the globe to stay at home, keeping your children stimulated and occupied is becoming increasingly more difficult.
Finding new fun and educational activities that you can pursue from the comfort of your home can be tough, but luckily there are a few brilliant ideas that you may not have considered which might just be the perfect option for you and your little ones to explore.
So, if you would like to find out more, then read on to uncover some of the best inspiring activities that you and your children can pursue today!
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Word Games
Word games are some of the best educational activities that your children can play at home, as you rarely need any special equipment to get started.
There are so many different word games that you can all take part in, from word searches to crosswords, scrabble and more! Allowing them to use a dictionary or scrabble helper whilst playing can be of real benefit, as they can learn a whole host of new words that help them to broaden their vocabulary!
Get Growing
A brilliant activity that you can pursue which is sure to capture your children’s interest involves growing your own plant life. There are so many different plants that you can grow both inside your home and in the garden, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t have any access to outdoor space!
The best place to start your growing journey is in the kitchen, as it’s a great lesson to teach surrounding the plant life cycle and where their food originates from. Herb plants are some of the easiest to grow, so start off your journey with a pot of basil or parsley.
You can branch out to tomatoes, strawberries and even root vegetables like carrots and potatoes if the local climate will allow for such growing conditions. Your children can plant the seeds, tend to their crop and watch as the plant produces food; this food can then be cooked up and eaten as a reward for all of their hard work!
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Turn Chores Into A Competition
With children spending more time at home, it’s more than likely that your home is looking a little more out of place than usual. A brilliant way to combat both boredom and ever-increasing housework is by making chores into a competition.
Create a kind of leaderboard that includes your children’s names as well as a list of chores (like making their bed, putting toys away or doing the dishes), allowing them to get a sticker or marker every time they complete a chore. Once they reach a certain number of stickers, or a winner with the most stickers is found after a certain time frame has passed, you can reward them with a prize!
The prize doesn’t need to be something too materialistic like a new phone, but make it attractive enough for them to feel motivated to beat their siblings to the post as the winner.
Disclosure: This is a collaborative post.