Ahh! Nine year old and broken leg. Non-screen based ideas to help us stop going mad?!

[Poodlyy]

My nine year old has just broken his leg! Which is a disaster as he is a very active kid.

Can anyone help me with non screen based ideas to stop him from going bonkers? (we’ve got the screen-based ones covered!)

Oh no, poor kid! Is he able to walk at all? Is he into crafts, or Lego? Crack out the board games? Perhaps take him out for a special lunch or something. Guess he will be back to school this week so will be busy soon?

Lego

Semi joking - give him some dumbbells and let him work off energy that way?

Magformer type toys are really addictive and easy to play with. He might like playdoh or air dry clay. A big jigsaw? Velcro darts?

Chess along with some chess books.

Lego
Jigsaws

A really intense craft project that you do over time like a model airplane or warhammer type things.

10+ Lego (the HP ones look great!)

Making his own board game

Writing/drawing his own comic - get friends involved

Filming pretend/real YouTube videos

Making and decorating a cake

Teach him knitting and/or crochet

Air dry clay and paint for the things he makes

Bless him!
Check out the Baker Ross craft kits, they have all sorts of things he could choose from

Bop it / simon says toys

Technic Lego. It’s trickier than the regular Lego so takes longer to make which sounds just what you need!!

Lego
jigsaws
drawing
baking a cake
making bread or pizza

Learn piano

Bop It is a great shout!
and rubiks cube

You can buy some pretty intricate paint by numbers nowadays. They look really impressive when you finish them!

Usbourne puzzle adventures/choose your own adventure type books?

Colouring books - maybe the more adult ones (ie psychedelic cats, not ‘adult adult’!)

raspberry pi

re-design all the premier league football kits

model plane kits

Keyboard -teach himself how to play

A book of how to make origami or paper aeroplanes and lots of paper.
Those wood kits that you press out and are like 3 d puzzles.

What are his interests? I'd probably be looking at how to make models of the solar system, or volcanoes or something. Try the Science museum shop for interesting stuff.

I can't it to load from google but see if you can find an online version of the Cub Scout badges, that might give you some ideas that are age appropriate.

Board games, solitaire, photography?

I’ve not done it but someone else I know has - Disney has an Animate with me feature on Disney plus. Yes it’s screen based 😂 but it’s drawing skills and an art class etc really.

He’s a good age to learn chess too.

Knitting. If it's good enough for Tom Daley...

My 9yo has learnt a rubix cube through YouTube and a bit of adult support (my husband!)

that’s been a great ongoing hobby as there are lots of different types of cubes once you learn a 3x3

My 10ur old ds got a Spirograph set for the summer and really enjoyed it.

Oh poor kid. What did he do??

He's usually active, what does he do when he can.

Definitely get mates around.