Try some of these activities to be helpful at home and learn new lifeskills:
Being helpful:
- Lay or clear the table
- Make homemade window cleaner using 50% white vinegar and 50% water – clean a window or a mirror
- Make the perfect cup of tea for your grown-ups (How much milk do they like? How long should you leave the teabag in? Do they take sugar? Get them to rate it out of ten)
- Reorganise your bedroom and make it tidier
- Hoover the floor
- Call or contact an elderly relative - write them a letter, text, phone or Skype etc.
- Load the dishwasher
- Read to a younger relative
- Change a nappy
Lifeskills
- Learn to tie your shoelaces
- Learn to knit
- Learn to tell the time
- Sew on a button
- Cook a pancake
- Slice vegetables
- Make a simple meal
- Use the washing machine
- Make a smoothie
- Darn a sock