We're in tier 4 and I'm low on ideas to keep my 12-year-old DD entertained. Please help!

[Planetzog]

My DD is 12, almost 13. She is so bored and fed up being stuck at home, unable to see her friends or go out and do things. Months of lockdown potentially stretch ahead. In the first lockdown, she was great - chatting to friends online, playing in the garden, doing art and craft stuff etc. But now she's totally fed up and all she wants to do is lie on the sofa and watch YouTube. My two sons are quite content, gaming online with their friends and going for a daily bike ride. My DD doesn't like cycling. All there is to do out of the house is go on (usually rainy) walks, which she hates, even with the promise of a takeaway hot chocolate at the end. I am really struggling to come up with ideas for stuff to do. Any ideas to make Christmas holidays and Tier 4 lockdown less shit for her (and me, so I don't have to deal with her moaning about being bored)? Thanks.

Really feel for you. We're in Tier 3 and even that feels pretty miserable. I feel like all I've done for months is go to work (teacher).

Could she do some baking? Mince pies, a gingerbread house, Christmas muffins for Christmas Day breakfast, cheese straws etc?

Make snowflakes to decorate the windows?

Help cook dinner?

Might she like to try a new hobby? Some new arty stuff? A sewing machine? Teach herself the ukulele or guitar?

Make a treasure hunt for the family to do on Christmas Eve?

Can't say I blame her. Does she like to read? Paint? Crochet? Maybe sit with her and get her to take responsibility for coming up with a loose daily schedule to break the monotony up a bit.

I have a DD the same age (and two DSs too). Mine likes to bake (carrot cake yesterday) and read (needs a bit of encouragement). She will do a jigsaw puzzle if we do it together. She has a netball post so will go outside and practise shooting. She likes to do pamper stuff so is getting a few nice bits in her stocking (face masks, bath bombs, nail polish). She plays Among Us with her brothers. I'm going to be suggesting family board games as soon as DH and I are off work.

Can you go for walks with her friends? That might help. We're going to do that, with the kids as pairs and then two parents as a pair, but letting the kids be 10ft or so ahead so we never mix as a four. Chatting to her friends might make a walk more acceptable.

Would she try doing an exercise class with you in front of the tv? Yoga or Zumba?

Thanks so much for these ideas so far - some really lovely ones. Definitely going to suggest some baking today. She does like drawing but has lost motivation, though I think she'd be up for making snowflakes with me. And I think the idea of a daily schedule is great. I'm also going to see if her brothers would play Among us with her - is that the imposter one? @Thurlow, in tier 4 we're only allowed to go on a walk with one other person now, but you've given me inspiration to suggest one of her friends comes for a walk with us. Thanks everyone, please keep the ideas coming!

She would love me to do a dance class with her! It would definitely cheer her up as I'm so uncoordinated and she's a great dancer!

@planetzog, we're tier 4 too but saw quite a few groups just now doing the same thing as us and all the kids keeping nicely in pairs at good distances. Crossing roads was entertaining though!

Can you go for walks with her friends? That might help. We're going to do that, with the kids as pairs and then two parents as a pair, but letting the kids be 10ft or so ahead so we never mix as a four. Chatting to her friends might make a walk more acceptable.
But if you've mixed with the other mum and the kids have mixed with each other how does that make it within the tier 4 rules? And I presumed we still had to socially distance? There are always loopholes if you go looking for them.

lifetooshort, we all stayed socially distant just as we would if me and the mum went for a walk just the two of us, as is allowed. We just made sure the kids stayed well ahead of us so we were never a group of four. I can't see how that isn't allowed when two people are allowed to meet for the purposes of exercise under the rules.