Pooling ideas for keeping kids entertained at home

[HebeMumsnet]

Afternoon, everyone. Our Content team are working (very fast!) on some pages of ideas for games, crafts and more to keep children of all ages busy in the event of self isolation.

We'd love it if everyone could share their best ideas here - anything from great board games for teenagers to crafts for pre-schoolers, books, activities, made-up family games. It would be a lovely resource for everyone in Chat but our writers will try and incorporate some of them into our own pages so they're all really easy to find at a later date and we can share them far and wide.

Thanks in advance.

Home with a two year old www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3853110-home-with-a-two-year-old

Here is a thread aimed at two year olds.

@zowiewowie What a genius idea! You must be so proud of your son, I know I am and I don’t even know you 😂 I’ve just shared the website address to my local Facebook post for those in Self Isolation and had a quick go myself, am about to stop the globe and check out a radio station from the other side of the planet, brilliant! Xx

@MoonBlood I love the Radio Garden so much, I’m a little bit obsessed with it this week! Thanks so much for sharing it, I am so proud of him he worked so hard on it and we use it all the time. I get decision fatigue especially now at home every day and it really helps me so much

facebook.com/events/s/the-24-hour-kids-party-online/892745027810267/?ti=icl

Daily lego challenge

Mine ar eteens. I am planning to challnege them to see who can learn to cook the most dishes. We will get recipe folders/notebooks and then they can cook as many nights as they like under my supervision or not. The meals are planned for the week, so their either learn to cook one of 'my' meals, or they plan a meal and ingredients before I do the shopping.
Learning to plan around the empty shops is going to be a good ife lesson too!

Nothing fancy, all everyday meals.

ds aged 17 can cook quite well, but doesn't. He is going to need ot step up, we haven't had that conversation yet though....

@zowiewowie your DS is genius!

@TheTiaraManager he’s so excited that people are using it he can’t quite believe anyone else apart from us is! In just glad it’s not a huge cardboard box contraption any more