Afternoon options:

1. Create and use a secret code. Send people messages in code, have them figure it out, and write back!
2. Create a Venn Diagram that compares and contrasts two people connected to you in any way. Understanding that people who seem very different may have a lot of similarities shifts our perspective and creates room for kindness and understanding.
3. Measure the area and perimeter of each room in your home. This is a math skill everyone needs to know how to do. Bonus points if they do the windows too so they’ll know what size curtains would work!

Writing prompts:

In the future, what extreme sports will people be talking about?

Afternoon Options

1. Learn, practice, and perform a magic trick. From the bendable spoon to the floating card trick, learning magic tricks takes practice. But, when magic works, it’s the best.
2. Visit any of the following museums (linked)
   Browse the collections.
   Find your favorite painting
   Re-create it on paper/poster or digitally

Writing prompts:

Is your ethnicity an important part of your identity? How so?

Afternoon options:

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, practice, and tell three new jokes. Everyone is going to need to laugh in the coming days of social distancing. Here are some jokes to get them started.
3. 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:

You get to take one book, one food item, and one famous person (living or dead) to a deserted island. What and who do you take? Why?

Afternoon options:

1. 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.
2. Graph the types of birds that frequent your windows. Bird watching is fascinating for everyone. Check out these tips for identifying birds. Once you’ve tracked your birds, make a graph to show how many of each kind were in your backyard during a certain period of time.
3. Imagine, create, and fly a full-size flag that tells the world about you. Everyone deserves to fly their own flag. Talk to kids about symbols and give them the creative stuff they need to create their own flag: markers, crayons, paper, fabric, glitter, glue.

Writing prompts:

Do you make friends slowly or quickly? Describe how one of your important friendships evolved.

Afternoon options:

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. Be completely silent for 60 minutes, then write about the experience. In a world where there are so many distractions, it’s amazing what we notice when we’re silent.

Writing prompts:

Do you believe in luck? Are you superstitious? How so? If not, why do you think some people are?