What lockdown activities do your kids enjoy?

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Since schools aren't going back till the 18th (or possibly much later).. I thought it might be good to have a lockdown activities thread.
What worked for you last time? And what really didn't. I'll start:

Hits:
Reading Eggs
Night Zookeeper
Outschool classes
Making dolls clothes out of old socks
Dressing up (especially making their own costumes)
Baking
Independant play. My god, did they complain, but we had to work and they had to get on with it.... and I honestly think they benefited from it in the end.
Housework (see above)

Misses:
All the work the school sent
Going to the allotment

Cosmic kids yoga if you haven't found it already.

Mini beast hunting and foraging - not so much at this time of year.

Feeding and watching birds - good to put up bird feeders and you can YouTube making them out of plastic bottles so junk modelling/eco activity.

Yes the school work for the younger one amounted to some powerpoints downloaded from twinkl and an app so highly missable.

Sumdog actually, for 15 minutes now and again
Baking until we got sick of eating cakes. Cooking dinner not so much
Xbox

I'm dreading doing it again

For bird feeders - they were a hit. We don't have a garden so we put them up in a local green space and nobody seemed to mind. Lots of parks don't have any bird feeders. We collected them when empty of damaged.

The night zookeeper looks great.

I'm dreading doing it again

I'm not best pleased myself. I powered through it on adrenaline and a sense of novelty but I was not in a good state by the end.

I remember outdoor youth work opening up on our scheme and thinking "Oh this is good because I don't have the energy to organise a day out..but I can just about manage to put on shoes and walk the kids two streets over there" and then sort of catching myself thinking it and going "bloody hell....that's depression!"

No I gained 6 kg least lockdown. Let's hope this one is short!

Mine are 8 and 10 and loved bbc bitesize, we watched it over lunchtime and we did some of the art activities related to them which were always fine. They love horrible histories too.

Dundee science centre did some great home learning stuff, if it’s still online it’s worth looking at.

Going outside with a list of things to photograph and trying to beat their brothers photos.

Board games, I’ve got a times table one from orchard games that’s not too bad but I think all board games teach them to think whether they are educational or not. We started playing card games as well, whist, rummy etc and they love a game of cards now. Backgammon and chess too. My oldest is dyslexic and struggles with written school work but he is amazing at all board and card games which use strategy so it builds his confidence too.

If they could get away with it they’d just play roblox all day. They zoom friends while playing so it’s quite sociable at least and helps with boys finding something to talk about over zoom 😬.

We did a Lego challenge thing over what’s app with some friends too, build something different everyday but that died a death early on.