Student Wellbeing News

Spotlight: Prep Community

Focus: Feeling happy and healthy

In Year Prep we have missed each other SO much! It was so great to see everybody during our Show and Tell. It was so fun to speak to our friends and share something that is special to us.

During Wellbeing, we have been focusing on staying happy and healthy at home. We are learning to understand that we need to be healthy not only on the outside but also on the inside. We have been doing some yoga to calm us down and stretch our bodies after working hard. Even our brothers and sisters loved joining in, it was so relaxing and so much fun!

Topic: Fun activities to do at home with the kids during isolation

Running out of ideas? We have you covered! Here are 109 ideas to keep your kids entertained during the isolation period!

Art & Craft Activities

Create your own 2020 COVID-19 Memory Book with this free download printable.
Tint shaving cream with food colouring, paint the windows or glass doors (or the inside of the shower glass) then rinse it off
Using butchers paper, trace a partner’s whole body. Now try to include as many body parts and organs as you can
Graffiti the garden fence with chalk
Make a small bowl, plate, egg cup or statue from air dry clay
Make Origami animals or paper ninja stars
Make a mud kitchen in the garden, make different coloured rock paint
Practice hammering nails into a plank of wood
Create a “God’s eye” weaving using sticks and wool
Try shadow drawing, leaf rubbings, painting bark or stones
Thread pasta into jewellery
With some old clothes, cut and create clothes for your toys
Make 3D paper rainbows
Make your own bubble blower
Try leaf threading and make a nature chandelier
Use a mirror to draw a self portrait
Create a foil river in the garden and float things down it
Make a paper chain to hang up in the dining room
Fold paper and cut out paper snowflakes
Make pom poms out of wool
Play drawing games like Simon Says drawing
Put on a puppet show using toys behind the couch
Make DIY rain clouds in a jar
Do the magic milk experiment
Create a sensory shaker bottle using an old bottle, glitter and water (and whatever else you’d like to put in there!)
Make greeting cards for the stationery cupboard to be used for birthdays and other occasions
Paint a family portrait to be framed and hung
Create a paper crown for a member of your family and decorate it
Try Michelangelo drawing under the table
Make a pretty lantern using an old jar, tissue paper and glue
Make an infinite paper flipper!
Make frozen dinosaur eggs (or you could use fairies, or Ooshies, etc)
Make a paper cut out family
Make a paper plate whale
Try dying some old plain fabric using natural dyes
Do a chalk photo shoot
Make a bottle rocket
Make rainbow paper
Make a stained glass window using clear contact & cellophane
Make a marble run
Paint a stick gnome
Make a rainbow stick
Choose an inspirational quote and create a poster for your room
Make sidewalk paint
Make a magic potion using aromatherapy oils, glitter, water, petals
Try sharpie tie dye using a sharpie and rubbing alcohol
Take some artistic photos in black and white. Play around with filters and see what you can create. You could use a phone or learn how to use the proper camera (if you have one)
Take some garden clippings and see which ones you can get to grow roots for replanting
Make a popsicle stick catapult
Can you draw or paint with your feet?
Press flowers within a few heavy books
Learn to finger knit, french knit or braid wool into friendship bracelets
Sketch your dream red carpet look!

Indoor play activities

Treasure hunt (with clues, hide a favourite toy somewhere in the house)
Play dress ups in mum and dad’s clothes – do a photoshoot
Day spa – do a manicure, pedicure, face mask
Give someone a back, foot or head massage
Have a Living Room disco – play freeze, musical chairs, have a dance off
Build a fort using the couch and every cushion/pillow you can find
Organise your Lego and then have a building challenge. Who can build the best house, hotel or shop?
Build a teepee fairy house
Do a marshmallow toothpick engineering challenge
Using Lego characters or other small toys, make a stop motion movie (download the app Stop Motion to your phone or iPad)
Go through your board/card games and challenge yourself to play them all. Design your own game
Build a bug hotel
Fold paper planes and see how far they will fly
Build the highest block tower you can
Learn to braid hair
Keep a balloon in the air as long as possible
Make a Lego zip line
Build a house with a deck of cards
String up the Christmas lights in your living room
Play cinema – make tickets, popcorn, give your guests a rug and watch a movie together
Play hotels using your bedrooms as ‘hotel rooms’ or restaurants by setting up the dining room like a restaurant with menus (or hospitals, vets, banks, etc)
Play the gummy bear game (using dice and 5 gummies each. Roll a 1 you eat one in your pile, a 2 you pass one bear to your left, a 3 you pass to your right, a 4 you keep it, a 5 you eat it, a 6 you keep it – keep playing til