Afternoon activity choices:

1. Color in a map with every country you (or your family) ever visited. Not only is it important to know where all the countries are located, but this is a great way to set travel goals. Try this map for a digital one.
2. Learn Morse Code and use it to communicate with your siblings through walls and floors. It’s pretty fun (and clever) to use Morse Code as a way to keep messages hidden.
3. Use household materials to make and play stringed, percussion, and wind instruments. Making instruments can be as easy as banging on a pot with a spoon, or you can try out these other ways to make instruments out of household goods.
4. Create a Race-Car Track: Use your painter’s tape (or opt for this super cool race-track tape) to make a huge road system for your kids’ matchbox cars. Think outside the box and have the track scale furniture and other obstacles (just make sure it’s something you don’t mind toy vehicles being “driven” over). The key to making it active is to make it large-scale, so they are engaging their core muscles while crawling all over.

Writing prompt options:

You wake up tomorrow with a silly superpower that makes you famous. What is that silly power? How does it lead to your becoming an international superstar?

Afternoon activity choices:

1. Visit any of the US national parks
   https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/virtualtours.htm
   -Browse the photos-Make of list of ten facts you learned about the park
   -Be a reporter: Film yourself (phone, ipad, etc) giving a report on your findings
2. Alphabetize the spices in your kitchen. Think only books can be alphabetized? The cook in your family will appreciate an organized spice cabinet
3. Using paper, tape, and string, design, build, and test a device that warns you when someone opens the kitchen cabinet. Developing ideas that can be helpful for human beings is one of the best skills we can develop in kids. If you want to dig a little deeper, teach them about engineering design to help them plan and execute.

Writing prompt options:

What are examples of things you want versus things you need?

Afternoon activity choices:

1. Call a grandparent or older relative. Ask them to teach you the words to a song from their childhood days.
2. Learn to shine a pair of shoes. Shining shoes used to be more common when people wore sneakers only to do exercise, but it’s important to take care of the things you own.
3. Visit any of the following museums
   https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/travel/a3178...
   -Browse the collections.
   -Find your favorite painting
   -Re-create it on paper/poster or digitally
4. Choose a website below. Track your progress daily to see how you improve over time.

Bodyweight exercises: Pushups, sit-ups, squats, jumping jacks, mountain climbers, burpees.

https://greatist.com/fitness/50-bodyweight-exercis...

https://outliveforever.com/best-home-workout-begin...

Just Dance 3:

Brains On! Podcast https://www.brainson.org/

Writing prompt options:

Last Friday, you were given one wish by a magical panda. You tried so hard to make the wish positive, but after the whacked-out events that unfolded over the weekend, you regret ever meeting that tricky panda. What did you ask for, and what happened?

Afternoon activity choices:

1. Put your favorite book, toy, and keepsake on a small table in sunlight. Draw or paint a full color still life. This is a great way to express your love for something. For a variation on this, try out different ways to paint the still life “like” a famous artist.
2. Design and build puppets that perform a show about multiplication. Thinking about things in new ways drives new learning. It’ll be fun to get puppets teaching about math, and really nothing helps kids solidify their understanding than teaching someone else.

Writing prompt options:

Describe a routine that you often or always do (in the morning, when you get home, Friday nights, before a game, etc.).

Afternoon activity choices:

1. Learn ten new big words. Write them on cards, illustrate them, and use them in your dinner conversation with your family.
2. Write or tell a story titled “What if humans had to leave the Earth and no one remembered to turn off the last robot?” Try using some read alouds like The Wild Robot by Peter Brown as a jumping off point.
3. Select a daily LEGO challenge: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lcNSHdn2ZwDqSinuf...
   -Take a picture of your design
   -Write down the steps you took to create it

Writing prompt options:

What TV or movie characters do you wish were real? Why?