For children over the age of 13, with a Facebook account, the House Party app is a great idea. Up to 8 people at once can video call each other and talk. Download the app onto the mobile phone.

Board games / Cards / Arts & crafts

Baking / cakes cookies, bread, home-made pizza

Grow your own vegetable patch

Apps on your phone to help keep the kids entertained:

Foldify – crafts

Drawing with Carl – crafts

Muvimi – create your own film

Epic – has over 30,000 books to read and helps improve reading too

Simple Sums – Maths game

Facebook groups

Some great groups to look into on Facebook to help parents entertain their families – you will need to search Facebook for these actual groups

The Lockdown Artists

Gifting A Smile. Wish List

Cheshire Mums Isolation Tank

The Resilient Kid

Lockdown Survival With Kids

Multiflex daily sports challenges for kids to get involved with.

March 30, 2020

Animals

Steve Backshall Live Wildlife Chat

March 30, 2020

Taskmaster

Comedians set various tasks

March 30, 2020

Earn Blue Peter Badges

CBBC games and videos

March 30, 2020

Children’s audio books

kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages

March 30, 2020

Fender free guitar lessons

kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages

March 30, 2020

World of David Walliams

The World of David Walliams to be the first to hear about new David Walliams books, special offers, free activities, live shows, events and more!

March 30, 2020

House party app

For children over the age of 13, with a Facebook account, the House Party app is a great idea. Up to 8 people at once can video call each other and talk. Download the app onto the mobile phone.

March 30, 2020

The Purple Pumpkin Blog

101 fun things to do during lockdown, varying from games, arts & crafts, organisation and making things.

March 30, 2020

Secret Manchester

Ikea has revealed how to make a different type of Fort during quarantine –

YouTube Channels

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Crash Course Kids

March 30, 2020

Science Channel

March 30, 2020

SciShow Kids

March 30, 2020

National Geographic Kids

March 30, 2020

Free School

March 30, 2020

GEOgraphy Focus

March 30, 2020

TheBrainScoop

March 30, 2020

SciShow

March 30, 2020

Kids Learning Tube

March 30, 2020

Geeek Gurl Diaries

March 30, 2020

Mike Likes Science

March 30, 2020

Science Max

March 30, 2020

SoulPancake

March 30, 2020

Animal Workshops

March 30, 2020

Green fingers

projects from home; these are educational and creative videos to keep young people occupied. There is also webcam footage from wildlife captures on the site

Online Resources

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BrainPop

March 30, 2020

Tynker

March 30, 2020

Outschool

March 30, 2020

Udemy

March 30, 2020

iReady

March 30, 2020

Beast Academy (Math)

March 30, 2020

Khan Academy

March 30, 2020

Creative Bug

Indoor Activity

March 30, 2020

Making Salt Dough

March 30, 2020

Various Indoor Scavenger Hunt ideas

March 30, 2020

Daily Home Schedule

Routine and reassurance is often needed for young persons; how about trying a Daily Home Schedule……

March 30, 2020

Make (Good) Trouble

Make (Good) Trouble is a social disrupter. They exist to challenge existing norms and change entrenched ways of doing things. It’s centred around young people’s emotional wellbeing and everything developed is through the eyes of a child.

March 30, 2020

Draw with Rob

This is a draw-along video session that takes place every Tuesday and Thursday and parents can watch with children, then hopefully go away and create together.