35 Things you can do with your kids during isolation
2 min readMar 28, 2020
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And none of them involve slime!
- Set up a tent in the back yard with snacks and things to do
- Start an herb garden with egg cartons
- Make salt dough creations to decorate your garden
- Have a dance off and let them choose the music
- Write a script and film a funny sketch to put on Youtube
- Have a candlelight dinner
- Barbeque together, let them arrange the charcoal and flip the burger
- Look at old pictures
- Set a time to play Fortnite together using headsets, invite extended family
- Set up a blog for them on blogspace for free
- Read or play an audio book as they are going to bed
- Let them peruse Amazon and pick something for $5–$10
- Redecorate their room
- Paint rocks from the yard with nail polish
- Send “Happy Isolation” cards to people in the family
- Go through clothes and have them help you choose what stays and what goes
- Make a pretend restaurant, have them draw menus and print fake money
- Set up a Twitch stream where they narrate their favorite video game
- Turn on a beat and freestyle
- Have a fashion show
- Find a charity together online to donate to, let them pick
- Have them help you with maintenance around the house
- Do an online yoga class together
- Make them a spa bubble bath with tea and a robe hanging for when they get out
- Draw chalk games on the driveway like tic tac toe or hopscotch
- Make a drive in movie and have them decorate boxes to sit in
- Let them color their hair with temp dye
- Make a battery out of a potato
- Make a scrapbook out of all of your old tickets, brochures and pictures
- Make a sick kit out of a shoe box and little baggies of bandaids, vitamins, thermometers, etc. so they feel ready if someone gets sick
- Make a foosball table out of Lego guys and a shoebox
- Hydro dip a pair of shoes using water and spray paint
- Play soccer in your backyard with music blasting on the speakers
- Have them do chores and start putting their earned coins in a jar labled “Savings”
- Have a water gun fight in the house.