keeping busy at home

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• Play I Spy
• Sort your toys by size
• Make up a quiz
• Paint something
• Pair your socks
• Blow some bubbles
• Sing the alphabet song
• Make up a new game. Use your imagination.
• Keep a diary
• Take a GoNoodle break (gonoodle.com)
• Practise counting groups of objects
• Roll 2 dice. Add the numbers together
• Investigate! Do your toys float or sink?
• Do a jigsaw
• Watch something on Cúla4/ TG4
• Play Snap or another card game
• Go on a shape hunt! Find circles, squares, rectangles, triangles
• Help to make lunch or dinner
• Make some patterns
• Spend some time outside every day
• Build something!
• Design a new cover for your favourite book
• Write a shopping list
• Play Snakes and Ladders (or another game)
• Sort your toys by colour
• Read something every day
• Hide something and make a treasure map to find it.
• Draw your favourite animal
• Make some junk art
• Find something longer/ shorter than you/ your arm/
• Play with water. How many cups does it take to fill the pot? Which one holds more/ less?
• Go colouring!
• Talk about which months your family have birthdays
• Clean your bedroom
• Play with some playdough
• Make your bed
• Plant some seeds
• Make your own book
• Play shop with money
• Do some rainbow writing of words that you know
• Pick up ten toys and put them away
• Play in the garden
• Fold your clothes
• Practice writing the names of the people in your family
• Practice tying your laces
• Cut something out
• Read a story to your sibling/ pet
• Build a fort!
• Bake a cake