We have come up with 100 fun things to do at home with the family!
Spring has sprung and we’ve been lucky with the weather recently, so we have added some fun ideas of 100 activities to get the children out into the fresh air to have some fun in the garden, and some fantastic indoor fun and games!
1 – Have a picnic in the garden or living room.
2 – Start a vegetable patch in the garden.
3 – Bake pretty cakes or funny biscuits.
4 – Have a Lego/Duplo building competition.
5 – Play dress-up.
6 – Write and act out a show.
7 – Build a den in the living room or garden.
8 – Get the children to help with the housework! (Some may say this is fun!)
9 – Do gardening and teach the children about the plants in the garden.
10 – Make a bug house out of plant pots and sticks in the garden.
11 – Get the paints out and let your creative juices flow.
12 – Watch a fun family film with popcorn.
13 – Plant sunflower seeds and start a family competition. (extend it over a what’s app group to wider family)
14 – Come up with a children’s book together and some fun characters.
15 – Do some exercise (there are some great online videos).
16 – Learn origami.
17 – All act out a story book and make up voices for the characters.
18 – Make salt dough decorations and figures.
19 – Make and colour in funny masks.
20 – Teach the children how to knit.
21 – Make and bury a time capsule.
22 – Cook and eat a family meal together.
23 – Print off copies of a picture and have a colouring competition.
24 – Make paper-chains.
25 – Give the children a fun, very bubbly bubble bath.
26 – Watch old home videos or look at old photo albums.
27 – Collect leaves and sticks from the garden and make some nature art.
28 – Create an online photo book or wall canvas to get printed.
29 – Make an obstacle course.
30 – Make a miniature garden in a plant pot.
31 – Read a story.
32 – Make a wormery from an old Tupperware pot. (Make sure it has holes in the top and you feed them).
33 – Make a keepsake painting of family hand prints.
34 – Have a fashion show.
35 – Make mini parachutes for your Lego people and see who’s flies the best.
36 – Make large cardboard boxes into something fun (robots/cars/boats).
37 – Who can make the best play dough monster?
38 – Make funny face pizzas.
39 – Play a board game.
40 – Give each other funny hairstyles.
41 – Make a scrap book.
42 – Play football or netball.
43 – Build a house of cards.
44 – Do pond dipping.
45 – Complete a jigsaw puzzle.
46 – Make creative art from your recycling.
47 – Do a family quiz (extend this on a video call to other family members).
48 – Make musical instruments from things around the house.
49 – Play hide and seek.
50 – Up-cycle and decorate a piece of furniture together for the children’s rooms.
51 – Have a joke telling competition.
52 – Search for bugs in the garden.
53 – Do blind taste tests with food.
54 – Wash the car and/or dog.
55 – Paint dry pasta and make necklaces.
56 – Take funny selfies.
57 – Try Yoga together. (there are lots of online videos)
58 – Play truth or dare!
59 – Think of funny things to ask Alexa/Google.
60 – Think up easy children’s science experiments to try.
61 – Make a D.I.Y memory game with a tea towel and different objects underneath.
62 – Make videos for family members and send to them.
63 – Task family members with making and sending videos back.
64 – Download a new children’s interactive app.
65 – Set up a treasure or Easter egg hunt.
66 – Paint a rainbow for your window.
67 – Have a Karaoke competition.
68 – Make a family tree.
69 – Play charades.
70 – Make paper planes.
71 – Video or group call Friends and family.
72 – Find some fun dance videos to all do together.
73 – Make potato stamps for painting.
74 – Set up your tent in the living room.
75 – Make sock puppets.
76 – Create a little town out of your toys and cars.
77 – Have a teddy bears/dolly’s tea party.
78 – Take artistic pictures in the garden.
79 – Make decoupage art with old magazines.
80 – Paint pebbles for the garden.
81 – Tie-dye T-shirts.
82 – Invent a ball game with washing baskets and your own D.I.Y score cards.
83 – Have a pillow fight.
84 – Search for live online events and parties that are being held for children.
85 – Make a home movie.
86 – Watch old cartoons online. The classics are always great!
87 – Have a mini pretend Birthday party.
88 – Act out your favourite films/scenes.
89 – Let the children give the adults a makeover.
90 – Make fun hot chocolates, milkshakes or smoothies.
91 – Build a ramp and race the toy cars.
92 – Make hand-painted T-shirts.
93 – Play tag.
94 – Teach the children to play chess.
95 – Make and fly kites.
96 – Select toys and games to donate to charity.
97 – Learn new nursery rhymes.
98 – Put out food for the birds and learn which birds visit your garden.
99 – Make mud pies.
100 – Learn to juggle!
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