A Sketch A Day
If you have a copybook or sketchpad, this would be useful but you don’t really need anything except paper and a pencil. Your job is to create one sketch a day for the duration of the project. The only catch is you have to pick a theme. Spend anything from 10 minutes to 30 minutes.
Choose from:
- Healthy Foods
- Happy Things
- Things that need batteries
- Famous People
- Nature
- Umbrellas
- Animals
- Trees
- Objects that are usually red/yellow/green etc
- Sport
- Transport
- Shoes
- Handbags
Learn a musical instrument
Do you have a musical instrument at home? Many have a tin whistle if not, it’s not too expensive to get yourself one or you might have a keyboard or even a ukulele. It’s never been easier to learn with loads of apps and websites to bring you along the way.
Tin Whistle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdUH1QZvEm8
Piano / Keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJOfTzSYW-9q2WSmGH1CNjmP3–2qaXN5
Ukulele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bTE5fbxDsc
Puppet Show
Making a puppet show can be a fun way to spend some time and there’s lots of different ways to do it now.
- Make a sock puppet – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-mfUBQE3_s
- Make finger puppets – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eq370x_lvo
- Make an online Puppet Show – Puppet Pals App
The main thing is to write the scripts and record them! Set up your stage….use a table to hide underneath! Perform it for family members. Record it for family members and send to them via email.