Activities to do at Home
Activities for children and teens
- Redecorate a room
- Wash a pet
- Teach a pet a new trick
- Make play dough
- Give or receive a manicure or pedicure
- Give or receive a facial
- Learn how to make candles
- Make a special event costume
- Build a piece of furniture
- Recycle something
- Cook something
- Get a head start on a school project
- Listen to mindfulness apps
- Make jewellery
- Learn first aid
- Draw
- Paint a picture
- Learn to knit or crotchet
- Knit scarves for the homeless
- Make a music video
- Learn origami
- Create a puppet show
- Sew something
- Learn tie dying
- Make slime
- Create a race track inside and race toy cars around it
- Make a collage
- Learn about insects
- Learn about a favourite animal
- Learn about another country
- Create a garden – vegies or fairy for example
- Create an obstacle course and race through it
- Make a musical instrument
- Have a concert
- Create a circus act
- Have a water balloon fight
- Print wrapping paper
- Make cards
- Write letters
- Check on neighbours/family by phone
- Create care packages for others
- Make icy poles
- Learn how to make ice cream
- Camp out in the back yard
- Camp out in the lounge room
- Make bubble liquid and blow bubbles
- Make some art using recycling
- Read a book together
- Write a book
- Search craft activities online
- Create a family tree
- Put on a play for your family
- Create a scavenger hunt
- Create a trivia contest
- Play board games
- Make a board game
- Learn to cook something new
- Make biscuits
- Make a cake
- Clean out a cupboard
- Change your bedroom around
- Sort old clothes to donate
- Sort old toys to donate
- Make models
- Sort through photographs
- Make a catwalk and model your clothes
- Act it out
- Jigsaw puzzles
- Scrap booking
- Start a “stay at home” diary
- Wash the car
- Clean the car interior
- Maintain your bicycle
- Create a dance routine and film it
- Create a “would you rather” list
- Dress up a pet and photograph
- Make a weather rock
- Create memes from magazine photos
- Paint rocks
- Learn about the planets
- Watch a movie and create a different ending
- Tour a museum online
- Watch a black and white movie
- Record a book or story to send to someone – have your friends send you one
- Find a pen pal
- Write a poem
- Set it to music
- Create a playlist of favourite songs
- Random acts of kindness
- Colour in
- Learn yoga
- Meditate
- Try Pilates
- Face painting
- Create a comic strip
- Make a bird bath
- Make a bird feeder
- Make a list of all the birds you see in your garden
- Hide and seek with an object
- Create a nerf battlefield
- Have a nerf war
- Plan the perfect holiday
- Design and name a town
- Learn how to make soap
- Make a piece of armour from an ancient civilisation
- Decorate eggs and have an Easter egg hunt
- Create a bingo game of things around the house
- Play I spy
- Play hangman
- Learn how to moonwalk
- Learn how to floss
- Make Mum and Dad breakfast in bed
- Have an inside picnic
- Have an outside picnic
- Create an obstacle course inside and race through it
- Decorate pots for plants
- Design a picture using clothes