With the new year here and the February half-term quickly approaching, many people may be looking for new and interesting ways to keep their children entertained and away from a screen. The experts at Millets have compiled their top 5 kid-friendly ideas that the whole family can get involved in.
5 free family-friendly activities: 1. Fort/ den building and camping
If your little ones are learning about letters, we have the perfect activity for you!
For this activity, I got some pieces of A5 paper and in the centre, I wrote the letter I wanted my children to find, for example ‘a’ . I made sure I made the central letter quite large, so it stood out. Then around the rest of the paper I wrote the letter again several times, plus a few other letters....
My children loved the Disney film Encanto, so I decided to make an activity using the characters today.
We have an Encanto busy book, which has all the main characters, which were the perfect size for me to use.
I followed the storyline from the film, where Mirabel was looking for her long-lost uncle, Bruno. I used our doll's house as the family home in the film and this is where the...
My daughter is really loving maths at the moment and asked me if I could write her some sums for when she came home from school.
I decided to make this a bit more fun by using fish instead of numbers. By using an object instead of a number it also meant she needed to practice her counting skills.
My drawing skills aren’t fantastic so fish seemed to be an easy to thing to...
My son loves making ramps out of all kinds of things to push his monster trucks down, so I thought I would turn it into a painting activity! What you need: 🚘 a ramp - we used a slide but you can use any kind of ramp you can find 🚘 tuff tray or something similar to catch the monster trucks at the bottom of the ramp 🚘 paper 🚘monster trucks 🚘sellotape 🚘paint How to do the activity
Trying to get my son away from his cars to sit firm and learn about cars was always really tricky, so I decided to bring the learning to his car play mat! My son really loved this activity and didn’t even realise that he was learning at the same time, which is always a bonus!
What you will need for this activity
🚘 a car playmat. If you don’t have one you can always try making one...
The Tiger who came to Tea is such a lovely book, which we love reading at bedtime. As my children love it so much, I used it to make a tuff tray activity.
I had to be quite resourceful to create this tray and dipped into lots of different toy boxes to get all the characters, but it was well worth it for the fun we had.
