Graphic: How to live with an infected family member
alexander sanchez
Children without class for weeks and parents locked up at home due to teleworking or because they have no other choice. It seems like the worst possible combination and an unsettling situation for many, but it can be a unique opportunity to discover what the little ones are capable of and how far the complicity between parents and children can go.
If you had thought that the coronavirus and its quarantine could be the end of the world, we offer you dozens of solutions to spend time with children in the best possible way. How many games are you capable of doing?
1 - Bake a cake
2 - Board games (Cluedo, Pictionary, Party, Monopoly...)
3 - Watch movies with popcorn... and watch movies in English
4- Play shadow puppets
5 - Paint
6 - Read
7 - Write a story
8 - Take a portrait
9 - Write a story or draw a comic
10 - Playing volleyball or tennis with an inflated balloon
11 - Make bracelets
12 - Play UNO
13 - Playing console or electronic games
14 - Play the movies
15 - Make a karaoke
16 - Write your family tree and do it in a drawing
17 - Perform a play
18 - Play journalist: Who do we interview?
19 - We tell scary stories
20 - Tickle War
21 - Cook something simple with special shapes
22 - Make cupcakes
23 - Pick up my room
24 - Playing strangers: talking as if you didn't know each other, even during lunch or dinner
25- Have a marble race in the hallway
26 - Find shapes in the clouds
27 - Magic here, magic there
28 - The broken phone
29 - Put on some music and dance
30 - Write on a piece of paper ten things you like about each member of your family
31 - Draw a picture
32 - Dress up and play
33 - Treasure Hunt
34 - Playing riddles or logic problems
35 - Tidy up the bookstore
36 - Play Lego
37 - Make cut-out dolls and dress them
38 - Carry out simple experiments (how a balloon inflates on its own or the dance of raisins in a soda bottle)
39 - Don't let the tower fall
40 - Record a soap opera for the radio
41 - Make a landscape in a cardboard box
42 - Guess a song
43- Build a catapult
44- Write a diary
45- Create a basket with a bucket or a trash can and play to put paper balls
46 - Playing Guns
47 - Water the plants
48 - Write a story
49 - Playing superheroes
50 - Guess songs
51 - Write a play with costumes
52- Cut out photos from magazines and make a collage
53- Make a zoo with stuffed animals
54- Create a family newspaper
55- Make a dessert or a natural fruit juice
56- Make a photo album (online or not)
57- Invent a circus performance
58- Turn your room into a jungle with cloth and clothespins
59- «Write» with alphabet paste (alphabet soup)
60- Make an obstacle course
61 - Bowling with empty boats or bottles
62- Write a poem or a story
63- Do massages
64- Yoga
65- Make up songs
66- Decorate an old shirt with cool buttons or fabric paint
67- Use old cardboard tubes and boxes to make a fantastic maze
68- Make a necklace with colored balls
69- Memorize a poem and recite it to your parents
70- Prepare a dance to show it to parents or grandparents
71- Make a boat with a plastic bottle and popsicle sticks (use adhesive tape to stick) to make them float
72- Draw a desert island and all the things you would take
73- Cover your brother or sister's eyes and take them for a walk
74- Coloring mandalas
75- Create your own invented board game
76- Make a city with decorated empty boxes
77- Make a wigwam with sticks, ropes, sheets, clothespins
78- Make a time capsule
79- Try to paint a picture with your foot
80- Play with the dartboard and sticky balls
81- Paint on the blackboard or black cardboard with chalk
82- Play supermarkets with empty food containers or toy foods, cash register….
83- Make the list of things we need to celebrate your birthday
84- Make the shopping list
85 - Make a television with a large cardboard box, prepare programs and invite the family to watch programs
86 - Make the list of things that we will take in the suitcase when we go on vacation
87- Playing tag in the hallway
88- Play «jenga» or wooden balance tower
89- Plant legumes in a pot or in a jar with cotton
90- Play I see, I see with dad, mom, grandpa or brother
91- Make a microworld with a terrarium with a glass jar, leaves, pebbles, moss, twigs, small plants…. and even anthill!
92- Paint the stones
93- Play English hide and seek with mom or dad
94- Play with bubbles in the sink
95-Play mikado
96- Make a moving tower with wooden tiles
97- Make a book of jokes or recipes
98- Make a camping trip in your own room. We need sheets and blankets. cushions, flashlights and snacks!
99- Play the «domino effect» with chips in the hall
100- Build a cowboy fort with sheets and pillows
101- Play bingo or cards
102- Play mime of trades, movies... with my brother, dad or mom
103- Make a picture with seeds, legumes or pasta
104- Make a puzzle
105- Prepare a bubble bath (for you or for mom)
106- Prepare canapés for family dinner
107- Play with constructions
108- Make a collage of photos from magazines that we like
109- Make some maracas with plastic cups, rice, insulating tape and markers to decorate
110- Decorate caps or bottle caps
111- Make juggling balls with balloons, flour or rice
112- Make dolls with old socks and buttons
113- Build a nest for birds or feeders (strings, branches, paper, plastic bowls, half a clean grapefruit, cans...)
114- Make a safety pin bracelet (with rubber, safety pins and small beads)
115 - Make clay figurines and paint them
116 - Prepare an interview with your grandparents
117 - Make windmills for the pots on the terrace
118- Make a list of words that we know (names of boys, girls, vegetables, colors...) or the rarest or longest words that we know.
119- Playing with dolls or dolls
120- Paint plaster figures
121- Play the »Stop» of words or chained words
122- Make decorated cardboard frames for family photos
123- Make a homemade xylophone or glass chime with glass cups, water, dyes and coffee spoons
124- Play an instrument
125- Write messages in bottles to throw into the sea
126 - Play hot and cold to guess where some objects are hidden.
127- Make paper airplanes