• Fairytales
Pick a fairytale and reread it e.g. Cinderella
Cinderella and Prince Charming lived happily ever after
The story doesn’t have to end there! You continue the story.
These questions may help you…
How did Prince Charming and Cinderella get on living together?
Who did the housework?
Who snored really loudly and the other person couldn’t sleep?
Did they have any bad habits? (Smelly feet, biting their nails, burping, constantly humming, chewing noisily)
Did they have children? What were their names? What were they like?
Where did they go on holidays?
Where did they live? Did they have servants. Staff? Were they kind bosses?
What work did they do during the day?
How did they spend their nights?
Turn your new fairytale into a comic book or a short movie with Lego!
• Conversations
Pick a clip from You Tube
E.g. Little Rascals – Sprucin’ Up
Mute the volume
Watch for 1 or 2 minutes. Try to guess what is going on and what the characters are saying
Listen back and have fun listening to what was really going on!
Play the next few minutes on mute and guess again what was going on. Practice your prediction skills!
Or do the same with cartoons in different languages. Can you imagine what the characters are saying? E.g. Doraemon in Chinese
• Secret Conversations
Make up your own language!
Teach your family
E.g. What are your words for all the colours, numbers, days of the week, emotions etc
E.g. How do you say How are you? I’m fine. I’m a bit sick. I’m tired.
What’s your language called?
Draw pictures to illustrate your new words.
Make videos to teach family members your new language. Send them the videos if possible.
Give them a test to see if they remember your words for the colours, days etc
• Bring to Life
If Days of the Week were people, what would their personalities be?
e.g. Monday: Is Monday a boy or a girl?
Is he, she grumpy, cheerful, cranky, generous? Why?
What does Monday look like?
When you’ve given personalities to all of the days, draw them, dress your toys like them, dress up like them, have others guess which day you are
You could also make a story about the days of the week. How do they get on with each other? Who are best friends? Who don’t get on?
• Create
If there are any old clothes, rags, recyclables around the house, try creating!
Make clothes for your toys
Make new outfits for your family members
Create new toys for your teddies, dolls
Create windchimes
Make a new toy for yourself!
Make a school for your toys, and teach them.
Make a town for your toys: shops, sports centres, parks, playgrounds
What’s your news of the day? Become a reporter. Interview your toys, parents, siblings. Dress the part. Practice makes perfect – prepare your questions first! Watch Kid Reporter: Micah Casey for a few tips
• New Animals and Creatures
Think of 2 animals or minibeasts e.g. a giraffe and a hippopotamus
Draw both of them
Now, combine both of them to make a new animal/minibeast, and think of a new name e.g. giroramus
What does it look like? Draw your new animal/ minibeasts
Make a zoo/ safari park full of your new animals/ minibeasts
• Marketing
Charlie’s Chocolate Factory needs a new bar of chocolate to sell!
It’s up to you to design the new bar: What’s in it? What makes it different to all the other bars in the shops? What size is it? What does the wrapper look like? What do you call your new bar?
Design the bar
Design the bar wrapper
Make the bar if you can!
Make the wrapper too!
• Communication
Write a letter/ record a video to someone who is in isolation. Tell them about everything that you’re creating.