If you are fed up with the monotonous routine of your kids, we have brought the following 10 tips and activities to make quarantine fun for kids.
With the closure of schools because of COVID-19, the parents’ responsibilities have increased. You are not only a parent in the current situation, but you are also a teacher, a coach, and the reason to keep your kids entertained too.
Bring colors in your dull life
Kids always remain curious about the miracles of nature, incusing the growth of living things.
Your child will enjoy the sprouting of the seed into a plant. Plants can be of any type, either for the purpose of beauty or for making their use in the cooking as a vegetable.
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ou can grow a fruit plant as well, depending on what you want your garden to look like.
Make the unwanted things unique
Painting anything can make it look more lovely rather than wasting it in a bin.
Gather the toys and some other unnecessary things from home and paint them beautifully with your kids. Your kids will love to do this activity.
Read good books
Reading is an excellent habit, either if you are reading a new book or just going through the old and previously read book, you’ll learn a lot every time by reading.
Engage your kids in this useful habit of learning and make them aware of many new and informative things and discoveries happening around the world.
Storytelling
Another similar activity with the activity, as mentioned above, is to tell the stories to your kids.
If you feel that your children are too young to read the books, another option to make them learn new things is by telling them stories. It is also a great source to keep your kids learn a lot during the quarantine.
The paper rainbow
Make your kids creative and active by doing a construction paper activity with your kids.
Make a rainbow with colored construction papers and cotton balls.
Why cotton balls? To make clouds. Make it as creative as you can. You can exclude the last step as well.
Make a weather calendar
Encourage your kids to make a day or week weather calendar.
Depending on the age of your child, help them to investigate the types of weather typical of the city or country, or create signs/symbols for the weather that occurred that day.
Help your child preparing a weather forecast for the day or week to come next. They will get to know about different climates through this activity.
Cooking and baking
Who does not like to eat? Even if somebody does not like to eat he/she can not survive without the food.
Why not eat healthy as well as yummy? Make your kids ready to cook and bake some unique dishes during the quarantine. The activity will keep them busy for quite a long time, and they will get entertained as well.
Shaving cream rain clouds
The science-inspired activity will keep your science lover kid busy and entertained.
Make some clouds in a glass or a bowl, preferably a glass container with shaving cream, and make them colored with the use of ink to make a perfect cloudy look. Try other such activities too as It feels fantastic to do science experiments at home.
Make a memory book
We all want to bring back our childhood, but unluckily none of us could do so. Instead, we can make those memories refreshing by going through some old memories either in the form of pictures, videos, or some old sound clips.
Gather all the past and latest photos with your loved ones and make a memory book. Insert the writing notes as well, where you can mention the date place and some memorable moments/event occurred.
Schoolwork
No doubt, schools are closed. But, in the era of technology where almost everything is just a click away, nearly all educational institutions are giving the education online.
Make this time devoted and help your kids in doing their homework attentively at home. Make their workplace equipped with every related accessory, including pens, pencils, colors, etc. to make the studies more attractive and fun for them.
The most necessary tip out of 10 tips and activities to make quarantine fun for kids is to stay calm and make your kids calm as well during the period of lockdown.
The whole world is in this situation and everyone is fighting with the situation in a way or another. I hope you will make this time productive for yourself and your kids by getting some help from this post.
Hope you find this article useful and that your kid is getting some quarantine fun.
Stay Home, Stay Safe!
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