With Coronavirus having now caused the schools across Scotland, England and Wales to shut, so many of us across the UK will now be wondering what on earth they are going to do to balance working AND entertaining the kids for the days, weeks and possibly (but hopefully not) months ahead.
And while this may have little to do with kitchen worktops, as your kitchen is the busiest room in the home, it is about to get a whole lot busier so we thought we would put together a list of as many fun activities that you can do with the kids (mostly in the kitchen) to keep them entertained during Coronavirus Self Isolation.
1 – Make a Play Doh Castle
2 – Make Macaroni Pictures
3 – Mark out a race track on the kitchen floor (make sure you don’t damage the floor).
4 – Organise the cook books in the kitchen
5 – Let the kids pick recipes from the cook book to plan out the meals ahead (this might even help them eat something healthy)
6 – Create a den under the kitchen table
7 – Do some leaf rubbings
8 – Thread pasta into jewellery
9 – Make paper aeroplanes
10 – Play a board game at the kitchen table
11 – Create a paper chain to hang in the kitchen
12 – Play Simon Says
13 – Create musical instruments using rice and an empty jar
14 – Learn how to bake bread
15 – Keep a baloon in the air as long as possible
16 – Do a mini gym workout
17 – Create movie posters based on the kids favourite movies
18 – Listen to an audio book
19 – Have a kids ‘afternoon tea’ with cake
20 – Take apart an old appliance so that they can see how it works
21 – Potato Paintings
22 – Create a family tree
23 – Do a fake news story and interview the family like they were ‘witnesses’.
24 – Paint the kids nails
25 – Make decorative bookmarks
26 – Use Video chat with the Grandparents/Family Friends at the kitchen table
27 – Homework (just because school is shut doesn’t mean they should stop learning)
28 – Create a new game from scratch (let the kids imagination run wild)
29 – Make a box fort using any boxes you may have in the home
30 – Write letters to loved ones (a bit like when you send family postcards on holiday)
31 – Do some science experiments
32 – Bake a cake
33 – Play shopkeeper
34 – Clear out the cupboards as if this was a Spring Clean
35 – Do a ‘fashion walk’ using grown-up clothes (it will be hilarious)
36 – If you have any air dry clay, make a sculpture
37 – Plant some indoor plants
38 – Learn and make origami animals
39 – Start a ‘tuck shop’
40 – Make a paper snowflake
41 – Put on a sock puppet show
42 – Create a sensory shaker using a cleaned out bottle, glitter and water
43 – Build a block tower using Jenga pieces
44 – Press flowers with a heavy book
45 – Create a ‘magic’ potion
46 – Measure each others height, arm length etc
47 – Take ‘artistic photos’ with your smart phone
48 – Make a time capsule
49 – Create a Marble Drop Tower
50 – Set up a line of dominos and know them over
And there we go – 50 suggestions (some good and some bad) that you can do in your kitchen during the Coronavirus Self Isolation time.