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.