Wisdom Wednesday: Fun Family Activities for Home

This month’s Wisdom Wednesday is about Fun Family Activities at home. And I’m so excited to share some of our favourite family activities.

Make learning fun, and knowledge is retained with fun learning activities at home.

Learning will always be fun when activities are focused on creative hands on experiences that your child is interested in. Let your child lead the play.

Let’s share practical and fun things we can do at home with the whole family.

Drive to a walking track

Time the walk and get the kids to work out how many minutes and seconds it took. Get them to draw the track on a piece of paper.

Reasons for a walk:

1. Duration

2. Exercise

3. Explore

4. Appreciate nature

5. Imagination, build a fort and play a game

6. Take photos

7. Chat with your family

Having fun with fractions

Use lego pieces to teach about fractions. Get your children to practice writing them down, also, e.g. denominator and numerator.

Shopping online

Get children to get a list of what groceries are needed and to estimate the cost. Then show them how to order online. Then use this as a maths exercise. Add up each item, including delivery costs (if there is one), then divide the cost between all family members. This is an excellent multi-step maths exercise.

Design own app

For free, you can use ibuildApp – choose a template, change anything you want. You can add images, videos or text and it is a great way to develop English and imagination skills.

There is no coding required.

Ask your child if they could design their own app what would it be e.g.

• a game

• a puzzle

• a story

• virtual make or try on jewellery

• app to unite communities

• problem solving

• food planner

• other type of planner

Look for ideas on social networks and other communities.

Then get your child to answer these questions to build a plan:

1. Describe your app – what are its main features.

2. Who is it for? – target audience, age group.

3. Does it solve a specific problem?

4. What does it look like?

5. What makes it interesting?

6. Do you need to research anything?

7. Do I need to Brainstorm with someone else?

8. Name your app.

Draw what your app will look like.

Design your own obstacle course

• Create a fort in the lounge room

• Word Snap

• Upcycle Plant growing

Games or breakout area – tech free

Have a game or breakout area where no electronic games are allowed. People can go there for 10 minutes to clear their minds.

Other fun family activity ideas are:

• Let the kids cook

• Let the kids navigate

• Make a Treasure Map

• Encourage hobbies

• Read a book together

• Try something new

• Research their favourite sport

• Put a puzzle together

• Try something new, get onto YouTube and look for a new Craft, exercise class, try a new recipe

• Start a garden

• Make videos for friends or family

• Get the kids to organise a picnic indoors or out

• Look at the stars at night.

• Do activities first thing in the morning that uses their judgment and awareness rather than problem solving.

• Mix it up so that each day starts with something they love doing, e.g. exercise, meditation, a different breakfast.

• Make activities curiosity based.

• Cook a special meal together as a family. There are lots of ways to turn a meal into family fun night.

• Hold a movie night – take it in turns to choose the movie.

• Have a family board game night.

• Play a sport together.

• Take turns picking the activity.

Zoe