Curious about how to keep your children engaged during lockdown ‘corona?’ Okay, this is what you need to read. Here are 18 fun activities for kids at home during the lockdown.
Fun Activities For Kids At Home
Happiness is a homemade thing! Therefore, when you’re at home, enjoy some enjoyable activities as a family. It can be a one or a mix of different activities we have crafted for you. Take a look around as you create life’s memories! Here are 18 fun activities for kids at home.
1.Makeover
You and your kid can try to make a hairdo or make up for each other. Look at yourself for a good laughter dose in the mirror! Have a selfie together. This is one moment we encourage you to use your gadget-to create memories for a lifetime. One day, you’ll just look back so profoundly at these clicks!
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2. Shadow play
Switch the lights off, shut the curtains, and make shadows on a wall by use of a torch. Use your imagination to create fascinating animals to characters. Look out for your household horses, zebras, giraffes, and goats. Name the characters and create a plot. Tell your child to keep the storytelling going!
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3. Board games
Find several classic board games like Ludo, Monopoly, Pictionary, and Snakes & Ladders. A fun way to spend time and communicate with your family. With these, you will never get bored.
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4. Dine together
Eat together as a family, around your dining table. Come and discuss a random ‘night topic’ during dinner time. They may be ‘unicorns’ or ‘super-heroes of yesteryear’ – anything. Come into the world of your kids. This can be part of your everyday dinner routine.
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5. Play Jigsaw
Do a puzzle together! And communicate, converse, and interact with each other, just as you do. Whether you can create the puzzle in one go or slowly every day. You can frame it until finished, and place it on the wall! A warm recollection of a good time that will last a lifetime with you.
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6. Mindfulness
Keep your ears open but shut your eyes. Hear the different sounds around you very carefully. Say it out when you hear something. Was the truck going through? Is a small frog crooked? Or grandma in the other room reciting prayers? You’ll find your kid is as smart as she can be.
7. Dumb charades
A classic family game, the hands, gestures, and facial gestures are easy (and not speaking) to make the other guess the name he makes for the film/cartoon/character. It’s a perfect game for young people to challenge and to create hours of indoor fun!
8. Vegetable art
Children will never get bored with vegetable printing. Let the children get busy making a veggie masterpiece (and a little chaotic). Cut okra in half, for example, dip the open-cut end into the paint and print it on paper. Create designs and patterns. Do this together.
9. Tongue twisters and riddles
Speaking of tongue twisters, that is another great way of engaging your kid. Take turns and offer some tongue twisters for each other to try. These are guaranteed to make you laugh all over. You may also ask each other a few clever riddles to see who gets the right answers. A good, laid back way to have some fun with your kids!
10. Pretend play
What does your baby want to be? Any Zookeeper? Which Princess? Vampire, Wolfgang? Chef? Let her be whatever she wants, and then engage in some imaginative play and bring to life her story. Act together in scenes. There are several playsets you can purchase-doctor set, vanity set, set of equipment, set of cooking, etc. Or using the things around the house simply as props.
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11. Bedazzled
If you don’t have home design jewelry sets, no worries! You and your kids can make some fun jewelry using everyday things like pasta, noodles, straw pieces, beads, paint, yarn, fabric, bottle tops, shells, and other stuff. Consider wearing it for the next party which you are attending.
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12. Sock puppets
Find some old pairs of bright socks your child has outgrown. You may use eye buttons, bits of cloth for the eyes, and things like thread, yarn, rope, or even cotton wool for hair. Your ‘Puppet Sock’ is ready for use. Now, take turns and bring your hands in and lend your voice to the characters!
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13. Sing-song
Singing your heart out. For extra imagination, allow children to make up to popular songs their own customized words. It can be cute, sappy, or goofy! And if anyone knows how to play a musical instrument, even better still!
14. Play Carrom
In every household Carrom once in a while was a staple game. Revive the magic of this children’s game. It promises hours of awesome family fun and both exciting and challenging!
15. Dance Together
A couple of minutes of dancing is an ideal way to relax, unstress, and work together as a team. Plus, wiggling and kicking are just a lot of fun! Let it fun by screaming “freeze” and just watch how everyone freezes, and everyone melts into their step when you scream “melt.”
16. Backward
Remember the renowned Ulta pulta word Hindi. Time for the game. Do stuff backward. Let your baby put his or her clothes back, go back and let the time for dinner be backward. Well, continue the dessert and end the main track! With this laugh riot that will follow, your world will definitely turn upside down.
17. Escape
Scatter a few rubber mats or sheets of paper onto the ground (the rocks are depicted on a river) and jump from one piece of paper to the next. Seek not to fall in the water and the chance of a hungry crocodile being eaten. Whenever you miss a paper sheet landing and slip into the water, scream, and squirt as if Mr. Croc got you!
18. Picnic
How about holding a samosa party on your terrace in the evening? Spread a nice bedsheet, layout the cutlery, and enjoy a meal with your family. Combine some music and get the mood moving. Don’t miss the orange skyline here. It’s a treat to watch.
So, these are 18 fun activities for kids at home during the lockdown.
Yes, that’s as simple as that! It can’t be easier to spend quality time connecting with each other. Let’s pledge to give up our screen time and devices to appreciate and feel the happiness of interacting as a family, for at least one hour.
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