- Norbridge Academy
- Stanley Street, Worksop,
- Nottinghamshire, S81 7HX
- Telephone:01909 472322
- Email:office@norbridge.notts.sch.uk
Be a Busy Bee
Be a Busy Bee
During your time at home I advise you to keep yourself busy.
Here are some ideas you could get up to in your home and garden to keep you a busy bee.
1. Make non-cook play dough then have a dough disco. Click here for a recipe.
2. Paint ‘our families’ portrait
3. Write or make a book
4. Draw flowers or the fruit bowl
5. Learn some laughter yoga. Follow the link: https://www.robertrivest.com/
6. Finger paint
7. Make a band from the kitchen pots
8. Footprint paint
9. Have a dance alarm every 30 minutes
10. Have a karaoke
11. Send a video message to family and friends to get them busy
12. Have a birthday party for a pet or a cuddly toy
13. Have an indoor picnic
14. Have a picnic in your garden
15. Discover your favourite story and share it together
16. Order your books alphabetically
17. Have an indoor treasure hunt
18. Dress up in adult shoes
19. Find a fairy door in your house or garden
20. Do the Hokey Cokey
21. Take a selfie through a toilet roll tube and pretend you’re on the moon.
22. Read Pirate George series available on Kindle
23. Make a paper mache sculpture over a balloon
24. Keep a balloon up in the air game
25. Play hide and seek
26. Play dominoes
26. Learn a card game
27. Make smoothies
28. Perform a puppet show
29. Make finger/sock puppets
30. Choreograph a dance or learn a dance routine
31. Have an upside down meals day, lunch for breakfast, pudding for starter etc.
32. Learn a sing-along for Spread the Happiness TV, follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj0shfH3pzhrf3dOrSj_pRw
33. Learn to cook something new
34. Learn Brilliant beast song on Spread the Happiness TV, follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj0shfH3pzhrf3dOrSj_pRw
35. Leave happy notes all around the house
36. Make a fitness routine and put your family through their paces
37. Using vegetables, make characters
38. Dance and sing to Knees up Mother Brown, follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7q3PxD__VA
39. Create a comedy show
40. Pretend to conduct an orchestra to music
41. Hike up your stairs like it is a mountain so high
42. Roll around a large space in your home
43. Hop around like a bunny
44. Learn to play sleeping bunnies
45. Learn and act out 5 Little Monkeys
46. Find as many collections of things in your home as you can.
47. Dance in the shower
48. Sing in the shower
49. Squirt shaving foam in your hands
50. Make a scrap book of your favourite things and people
51. Play Jack in the Box in a large cardboard box
52. Have a themed party
53. Play apple bobbing
54. Jump on the bed
55. Bash a piñata
56. Do coin rubbing with paper and crayons
57. Play pass the parcel
58. Play I SPY
59. Open your windows and sing out a song
60. Learn the Days of the Week song
61. Play musical statues
62. Learn a Beatles song
63. Learn a Queen song
64. Make an indoor restaurant and serve your family
65. Have a toy’s tea party
66. Roll balls down the stairs
67. Be superheroes with capes
68. Eat cereal with a gigantic spoon
69. Have an ice cream party
70. Enter an online competition to win a prize
71. Vacuum your home
72. Polish your home
73. Fold up sheets
74. Use a sheet as a parachute to fluff up and hide under and play parachute games, follow the link for parachute game ideas: https://kidactivities.net/games-parachute/
75. Make binoculars with toilet rolls and look out the window at the birds
76. Make yoghurt pot telephones
78. Make a junk model rocket as large as you can
79. Make cards for everyone at home
80. Make cards for your neighbours
81. Get some sheets to flap and pretend they are the waves and jump in
82. Make cakes
83. Get materials or cardboard and make mermaid or merman’s tails
84. Get all the chairs together and make a bus, play conductors and drivers
85. Make a camp in your bed
86. Build a den
87. Make a dark den and use a torch
88. Write a letter to a neighbour, friend or family member
89. Colour in a colouring book or draw a picture
90. Make a wool or string hair over a chair
91. Have a pamper day
92. Have a scrunched up paper fight (from recycling)
93. Make ice lollies with cordial and water
94. Make sandwiches in strange shapes
95. Make a pretend car from boxes or furniture
96. Learn a rhyme or poem
97. Make paper aeroplanes – you could even have a race!
98. Have a pirate adventure, make boats from boxes or furniture
99. Blow bubbles and catch them
100. Make a number frieze for the wall and decorate it
101. Use food colouring in the bath to make the water coloured
102. Build a fort, use boxes, furniture and other household items.
103. Create an obstacle course
104. Create your own creature
105. Watch the clouds together, make shapes and objects using the clouds – you could even tell cloud stories!
106. Create something using a box
107. Weed the garden
108. Feed the birds
109. Invent a circus act
110. Act like your favourite wild animal
111. Make a hopscotch on your garden
112. Make up a song