Health and Wellbeing May 2020 – More Ideas HWB Week – Have Fun Dance, like no-one is watching, to your favourite song. Sing, like no-one is listening, to your favourite song. Create your own obstacle course and time everyone in your family completing it. Create a gymnastics routine and teach it to an adult at home. Change the lyrics to a song you are familiar with about your experience during lockdown. Find your favourite spot in or around your house and get lost in a good book. Plan a movie night with your family. Take votes for the movie and snack. Give someone at home a beauty treatment – do their nails, do their hair, give them a massage or a treatment of your choice. Plan a games day/night with your family. You might take it seriously and have a score board! Have a water fight with someone at home. Organise a family quiz. You can open this up to other family members through the use of Zoom or FaceTime. Create a ‘thankful’ jar and write down all things you are thankful for during lockdown. Keep this as a memory. Create a ‘fun times to come’ jar and write down the things you are looking forward to once lockdown is over. Carry out an act of kindness to improve someone’s day. Don’t tell them. Learn a magic trick or create a variety act to entertain someone at home. Be kind to yourself – list everything you are good at. Choose an activity you enjoy and dedicate a day to this. Springwatch This week marks the start of BBC's Springwatch 2020. Perhaps you could watch the first episode on Tuesday or look at their website which offers tips for helping the wildlife in your own garden. They will also be 'going live' on their various social media outlets too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qgm3
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Health and Wellbeing May 2020 – More Ideas
HWB Week – Have Fun
Dance, like no-one is
watching, to your
favourite song.
Sing, like no-one is
listening, to your
favourite song.
Create your own
obstacle course and
time everyone in your
family completing it.
Create a gymnastics
routine and teach it to
an adult at home.
Change the lyrics to a
song you are familiar
with about your
experience during
lockdown.
Find your favourite
spot in or around your
house and get lost in a
good book.
Plan a movie night with
your family. Take
votes for the movie
and snack.
Give someone at home
a beauty treatment –
do their nails, do their
hair, give them a
massage or a
treatment of your
choice.
Plan a games day/night
with your family. You
might take it seriously
and have a score board!
Have a water fight
with someone at home.
Organise a family quiz.
You can open this up to
other family members
through the use of
Zoom or FaceTime.
Create a ‘thankful’ jar
and write down all
things you are thankful
for during lockdown.
Keep this as a memory.
Create a ‘fun times to
come’ jar and write
down the things you
are looking forward to
once lockdown is over.
Carry out an act of
kindness to improve
someone’s day. Don’t
tell them.
Learn a magic trick or
create a variety act to
entertain someone at
home.
Be kind to yourself –
list everything you are
good at. Choose an
activity you enjoy and
dedicate a day to this.
Springwatch
This week marks the start of BBC's Springwatch 2020. Perhaps you could watch the first
episode on Tuesday or look at their website which offers tips for helping the wildlife in your
own garden. They will also be 'going live' on their various social media outlets too.
Look up at the clouds. What do you see? A dragon or a huge train or a goblin?
What can you make? Be creative and make or draw something to do with
the clouds.
Science experiment
Make it Rain- To be supervised by an adult
Materials:
Glass jar
Ceramic plate
Hot water (parental guidance with this part)
4 ice cubes
Instructions:
1. Pour 5cm of hot water into a jar. 2. Cover the jar with the ceramic plate face up. 3. Wait 3 minutes to continue to the next step. 4. Put ice cubes on the plate. 5. Observe your homemade water cycle.
How it Works:
What happens? The cold plate causes the moisture in the warm air, which is inside the jar to condense and form water droplets. This is the same thing that happens in the atmosphere. Warm, moist air rises and meets colder air high in the atmosphere. The water vapor condenses and forms precipitation that falls to the ground.
I am learning to identify trees in my local area.
When you are in your garden or out for a walk have a look at the trees around you.
Tasks
Use the identification sheet to help you name the different trees that you see.
Make a tally chart like this one-
Tree Tally Amount
Oak // 2
Silver Birch /// 3
Draw or take photographs of the trees.
Carefully collect a few leaves from the different trees and make a collage with them.
Hazel Beech Douglas Fir
Hornbeam Oak Ash
Copper beech Lime Silver Birch
Sycamore Scots Pine Alder
Poplar Willow Elm
Family Team Building Activities
Scavenger Hunt
Materials Needed: Camera, list of items. Purpose:
Family bonding
Split up into two teams and give each team a list of
items/actions that they need to find or actions they need
to do. Make sure and get a picture or video of each item
on the list so that you can all go through them together
afterward.
Spider Web
Materials Needed: straing/wool, tape. Purpose: Family
Bonding
Within a hallway of your house, make a spiderweb by
taping up many strings of yarn. Have your family
members then take turns getting through the spiderweb
without touching the yarn. Have competitions by seeing
who can get through the fastest. You could play the
Mission Impossible theme tune and video or photo each
attempt. Paper Airplane Contest
Materials Needed: Paper, scotch tape, open space for
flying the airplanes. What this Teaches: The benefits
that come from hard-work. Give your family members 5-
10 minutes to research how to make the best paper
airplane. They can watch Youtube tutorials, or find step-
by-step instructions on the internet. Then give them
another 5-10 minutes to make their own paper airplane.
Find an open space and take turns flying your airplanes.
Mark how far each plane flew with a piece of tape and
then reward the winner with some type of prize.
Home Trivia
Materials Needed: 20-25 trivia questions about your
home and family members. Purpose: Family Bonding
Come up with around 20-25 questions about your home
and family and then have your family compete to see
who can answer each question correctly, the fastest.
These can be questions such as, “What is mum’s
favourite colour?” or “How did Johnny break his
collarbone.” This activity will be a lot of fun and is a great
way to strengthen your family bond.
Memory Wall
Materials Needed: Poster board, glue, family pictures,
markers, an empty wall. Purpose: Family Bonding and
Reminiscing.
On a big poster board come up with phrases that can be
illustrated through pictures, such as “birthdays”,
“achievements”, “holidays”, “memories” and then as a
family create a collage. Find a space in your home to
hang this poster and continue adding to it. OR make a
Covid-19 Lockdown memory wall with pictures, photos
and slogans from your family and the community; a
piece of family history!
Spaghetti and Marshmallow Tower
Materials Needed: uncooked spaghetti noodles, mini
marshmallows. What This Teaches: Teamwork and
problem solving.
Depending on the size of your family, split up into teams
or just do it together. Give each team a box of spaghetti
and a bag of mini-marshmallows and have them
construct a tower as tall as they can within 10 minutes.
Whichever team gets the tallest tower within that 10
minute time-frame wins.
Minefield
Materials Needed: Random household items,
blindfold. What This Teaches: Trust, teamwork.
Set up a “minefield” in your house by creating an
obstacle course of chairs, pillows, couches, etc. Then
divide your family into groups of two. Have one family
member wear a blindfold while the other guides them
through the minefield with only verbal directions. Have
each family member take turns going through the
obstacle course and guiding someone through it. Feel
free to alter the obstacles after each turn so that nobody
becomes too familiar with it.
Back To Back Pictures
Materials Needed: Paper, pencils, simple
drawings. What This Teaches: How to give clear,
concise directions and work with a teammate.
Divide your family into groups of two and have them sit
back to back. Give one teammate a pre-drawn picture,
and give the other teammate a paper and pencil. Instruct
the person holding the pre-drawn image to give
instructions on how to draw their picture without outright
telling them what it is.
Ideas for Catch up week
Teddy bears
This link shows you how to make your very own teddy bear using a towel from your house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=046ZWDgjk08
Have a teddy bears picnic – indoor or outdoors
Webcams
Edinburgh zoo have some great web cams
https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/
Rainbows
Research or use YouTube to find out how rainbows are made