Creative / Fun activities:

• Draw/paint/collage a self portrait
• Create a comic strip
• Research an artist and make a copy of one of thier works
• Make a stop motion film - download a free app on a phone/ipad 
• Make up a play
• Write a poem/ limeric/haiku/rhyming poem etc
• Write a story
• Make up a play with your toys
• Make a model - use Lego, recycled materials or whatever is to hand
• Perform a pop song
• Make an instrument
• Learn a poem
• Create an item of clothing
• Make a marble run using household objects, and film it to share. Like a Rube Goldberg Machine. 
• Weekly riddle (https://riddles.net/riddle-of-the-day )
• Make the tallest free-standing structure using only sticky tape and rolled up newspapers
• Make a den 
• Make a magic potion, write down the recipe and tell us what it does
• Play exquisite corpse with stories / pictures / play it with writing to make a haiku (this is the game where you fold over the paper) 
• The Wikipedia game https://www.kidzsearch.com/ (think of a start link (e.g. Chocolate) and then try and get to an end goal (e.g. Australia) by just clicking links. The fewest clicks wins. 
• Shadow puppet play. 
• Design paper aeroplanes 
• Cut picture out of a magazine and write your own articles about the pictures. Try to make it completely different from the original story.
• Try a Micro Treasure Hunt - How many individual different single objects can you fit in a matchbox.
• Magazine card making - cut out shapes, paterns and images from magiznes and collage to create greetings cards. 
• Expand an image (cut small image from magazine and draw out from the edges)
• Make sock puppets
• Make salt dough / slime
• Cut up misfit characters - cut out pictures of people and mix up the heads bodies and legs to make misfit characters.