Whit Holiday Activities

Holiday Activities

• Go on a minibeast hunt

• Set up a minibeast investigation lab with magnifying glasses and have a close inspection of the minibeasts - how many legs do they have? What colour is their body?

• Practise moving like different minibeasts

• Have a teddy bear’s picnic in your garden

• Write a menu for the teddy bear’s picnic

• Set up a shop role-play area in your house and practise paying for items

• Practise using scissors to cut out different animal shapes

• Make some salt-dough and create different things with it. You could make butterflies, ladybirds, bees or anything that you like!

• Fill a bucket with water and use paintbrushes to complete some water painting outside

• If it is sunny, practise drawing around the shadows of your teddies with chalk outside – see how the shadows change over the day

• Create a reading den using duvets, large bed sheets and pillows – take some of your favourite books in to read.

• If you have a tablet, you could try using Kidmons to practise creating digital pictures

• Have a look at Charanga and practise your music skills! See here for your login details

• Log in to Purple Mash (see the inside cover of your reading records for your log in details) and have a go at some of the different programmes – try some of the mini mash games.

• Practise your colour mixing skills with paint

• Have a go at some dough disco activities

• Ask a grownup to set up a scavenger hunt for you around the house – ask them to give you clues to find things!

• Have a go at some Cosmic Kids Yoga

• Play some board games with your family – practise taking turns!

• Learn some sign language

• Make a bird feeder

• Do some baking or cooking and talk about the measurements you are using

• Create some portraits of your family

• Make a family tree – learn about your past

• Have a go at some of these science experiments

• Put on a talent show with your family

• Put parts of vegetables into water and see if you can grow them.

• Take some seeds from the fruit and vegetables that you’ve eaten and try to grow them – this works with strawberries, tomatoes, peppers and more. They will need to be kept on a sunny windowsill

• Create an obstacle course – who is the quickest to complete it?

• Have a cinema day with your family. Afterwards, get them to ask you some questions – who was your favourite character? What was your favourite bit? Why?

• Create a story with your family – one person starts off by saying a sentence of a story and the next person says the next sentence. Keep going until you have finished the story

• Make your own playdough and use it to create different shapes - recipe here

• Pretend you're the teacher for the day

• Learn some magic tricks

• Make your own toy house using a shoebox and other craft materials

• Make a skittles set using empty bottles and a soft ball – how many skittles can you knock over? Who knocked over the most?

• Play a game of guess the animal - make animal movements and see if others can guess which animal you are

• Do a fashion show with your family – who can dress in the craziest outfit?

• Practise writing simple sentences about your day – i.e. I went to the park

• Continue learning to read through the high frequency word cards

• Read, read, read! Go to Oxford Owl for your books.

• Practise your rhyming skills by seeing who can make the most words rhyme!

• Look for shapes in your house

• Practise your counting skills by helping with dinner – how many pieces of bread does each person need? How many does that make altogether?

• Remember your capacity work by using capacity language when filling up drinks for your family

• Use positional language to describe where things are.