Themed Activities To Entertain The Kids At Home (part 2)
Collaborative Post
A few weeks ago, I gave you a some ideas to keep your kids entertained at home through the school holidays. However, I’m sure the inevitable cries of “I’m bored” are starting to kick in now so I’ve got another post rammed full of fun themed activities!
We love following a programme of themed activities as it gives a bit of continuity to the stuff that we’re doing. It also helps to keep the kids engaged and looking forward to the next activity.
40 Themed Activities
China
- Watch Mulan
- Buy a Chinese takeaway
- Use some calligraphy pens
- Try cooking your own noodles
- Use chopsticks (or pencils) to pick objects up
- Print some Chinese words off the internet to copy
- Make a fan by folding paper into a concertina
- Watch Kung Fu Panda
Chinese Scratch Dragons from Baker Ross
Under The Sea
- See some fish at a local garden centre or pet shop
- Watch The Little Mermaid
- Visit the swimming pool
- Make a picture out of seashells
- Eat some fish (e.g. tuna sandwiches or fish fingers)
- Make our edible fish craft
- Go to the seaside
- Watch Finding Nemo
Our Easy Edible Fish Craft (click pic for instructions)
Birds
- Feed the ducks
- Watch Cuco’s Big Adventure (giveaway below!)
- Name a bird for every letter of the alphabet
- Make some junk model binoculars
- Go “twitching” in the garden with binoculars
- Make birds nest cakes
- Go for a walk and take photos of the birds you see
- Make a bird house
Unicorns
- Put on a magic show
- Watch My little Pony
- Make a unicorn horn out of a kitchen roll tube
- Ride on a horse or a donkey
- Watch Despicable Me 3
- Learn a magic trick
- Write your own potions (e.g. 1 tsp fairy dust)
- Have a go on a merry-go-round
Our Lucy At Home POWERED BY GLITTER t-shirt! Click pic to be redirected to our shop x
Exercise
- Visit an indoor trampoline park
- Make an obstacle course in the garden and time
- Play WiiFit / JustDance
- Play football
- Play hopscotch
- Do some races (e.g. star jumps, scooter)
- Go on a bike ride
- Learn some stretches
These are some of the themed activities we’re going to be getting up to in the school holidays. Which ones did you like the sound of? Have you ever themed your school holidays? What are your favourite summer holiday activities? Please leave your comments below.
Cuco’s Big Adventure: Giveaway
And, as promised, here’s a little giveaway! Cuco’s Big Adventure is an animated film about an heroic little circus parrot. It is available on DVD and digital download from 14th August 2017, but I have 2 DVDs to giveaway to my lovely readers! Please remember to check the terms and conditions below and good luck, my dears! xx
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After all the wet weather lately, we are looking forward to having a day down on our local beach – and today looks to be a sunny and warm one so we shall pack our buckets, spades and picnic and off we go……
we are heading to the beach
we have done loads- swimming, trips to the park, walk upto the woods, shopping drips, feeding the ducks, and a trip to the cinema
We have been visiting lots of family and friends, had trips to the park and zoo.
Baking, cooking, painting, arts and crafts, swimming, cinema and days out to theme parks, museums, zoos etc.
Brilliant list of ideas. Great that lots are indoor activities too, as the weather has been such a disappointment recently. Xx #blogcrush
Love this! Packed with great ideas! Love the ‘birds’ one. Gonna do some of those with my twins soon I think! #BlogCrush
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Lots of days out -trameline FUN swimming adventure playground and visits to the sea
Fabulous ideas for those stay at home days #blogcrush
Great ideas-Thanks for the details! I needs them!!!
I am surprised to see these many themed activities. I didn’t know many of them.
We are hoping to go to the beach, have already been to the park.
Walking in the Yorkshire dales around Mallham its beautiful
what a cool idea to add a theme. I like the exercise one! #blogcrush
We going to see Blackpool illuminations and we’ll be on the beach in morecambe at some point when the weather improves!!
Lots of days by the beach and walks in the norfolk countryside
We are visiting lots of national trust parks, burning a lot of energy!
We have gone to a few different parks, play dates, some theme parks and seeing family
Trip to the Safari Park
Yesterday we went to the Safari Park
Great ideas here! Thanks #BlogCrush
I do love this idea of themed activities. Thanks for sharing. #BlogCrush
So many good ideas! we’ve got plenty of trips to the park planned.
Walks in forests and at the beach, cinema, the zoo, meeting friends, ice cream, parks, and a trip to a theme park.
Lots of crafts and plastercine play lined up
Great list of ideas! I love all your different themes and I could totally get on board with ordering a take away and classing it as a fun family activity! I am so guilty of turning to the TV babysitter when we stay in so thanks for all the ideas xx #blogcrush
As if I needed another reason to see and appreciate your brilliance, here it is before me! I am bookmarking this baby. Wow. You are very, very good! <3 #BlogCrush
With all the bad weather we’ve had my little man has resorted to lots of LEGO building 😉 …we’ve managed to enjoy a few day trips to parks and been down to the seaside twice so not too bad. x
This is a great list of ideas and I will retweet. I love the themes too. Sorry I’m a bit late with the comment. #blogcrush
Ah some great ideas again here. I can’t wait to get my daughter into the Little Mermaid! I’m going to save this! #BlogCrush
We’re are having picnics.
weve done picnics, park, nature walks and theme park so far. we still have a trip to the zoo and a weekend at the seaside before they go back to school
been on holiday, been to the cinema, been shopping, could go on
Days out in parks, woods, beach etc
wee went to greece for a week, we have alot visited alot of counntry parks and done loads of arts and crafts
Great ideas, very useful.
Lots of long walks and picnics
My daughter and I took my grandchildren on the Lincoln Knights’ Trail where they explored Lincoln, visiting the Art Gallery, Museum and 3 dozen other areas, hunting the Knights and learning about the Battle of Lincoln. It was great fun for all and we completed the course even though we had to return a second day to do so.
going to the park
we did lots of picnics trip to great yarmouth on a coach park trips week in wales bbqs swimming trip to woods loads of fun stuff
We went beach, safari park, castles and so much more….love the summer
We had a lovely week in the lake district and I think we had the best of the weather too!!
family caravan holiday
We went to various parks, the beach and the zoo which was so much fun.
Walks to the park, trips to the library and a few days out for us.
we have had lots of trips to the beach and the new forest
We went to visit St Fagans welsh folk museum which is just outside of Cardiff where we live, we went to play in the park, fed the ducks and the Koi at Roath Park, we visited the beach and Cardiff museum and we played a lot in the garden, did a lot of colouring and watched some Disney movies 😀
We did a lot of walking / hiking and camping in the Lake District over the Summer, and also had a family holiday in Rome, Italy.
We did lots of nature things. Took the boys for walks and had them undertake prearranged tasks. It kept them busy throughout the summer!
we love being out and about in nature, especially in brighton – we’ve got wildlife in the woods parks and beaches x
I loved the nature walks 🙂