Activity Ideas to Keep Your Kids Entertained at Home
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Looking for ways to keep your kids entertained at home during the holidays?
Keeping your kids busy during school holidays can feel like a real challenge.
It's very easy to feel overwhelmed trying to find fun activities that also engage your children's minds and then have to find something else to do the next day! You can feel like you're running out of ways to keep them busy at home.
How To Keep Children Busy and Engaged
Whether you're looking for quiet indoor activities for children, or enjoying the outdoors, these activities will keep your kids happy and entertained. We've got ideas for every interest and energy level.
Teach My Kids has gathered a variety of ideas to help you with activity ideas: from hands-on crafts to brain-boosting games, these activities are perfect for sparking creativity, learning and fun.
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Look for Learning Opportunities
It’s important that your kids keep learning. Fortunately, there are learning opportunities everywhere!
- Browse the digital selection from your local library and check out e-books (Kindle e-books) and audiobooks for your kids.
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- Let your kids enjoy some productive screen time.
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- Try our activity kits that your children might be interested in e.g. Mel Science or Baketivity.
The activity kits and boxes are specially tailored for children and are delivered to your door.
- Buy some educational toys for your kids to learn with:
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- Encourage and help your children learn to play a musical instrument.
Buy musical instruments
There are apps available that will guide children through easy to manage bite size steps.
They can learn to play the piano or learn to play the guitar.
- Try some fun word games to challenge your kids’ memories and critical-thinking skills.
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Turn Off the Screens for a While
Devices like phones, tablets and computers can be a great source of entertainment and educational content for kids. But sometimes you need to turn off those screens and encourage involvement in other activities.
- Plan an indoor scavenger hunt to get your kids thinking and moving around while you’re stuck inside.
- Enlist your family in a household decluttering session. Sell your kids’ unwanted stuff online and let them keep the cash.
Make the Most of Your Backyard Space or Garden
Take advantage of the outdoor space you have at home.
- Consider purchasing some play equipment and building a playground in your backyard. Your kids will spend hours staying busy!
- Set up a tent in your backyard and sleep under the stars. Buy a tent
With a little creativity your kids will never run out of stuff to do.
Take advantage of online resources to keep your kids thinking and learning. Use Teach My Kids worksheets to keep their maths and english skills alive during the holidays - no need to do too much, just 2 or 3 worksheets per week is enough!
Maths and English Worksheets for kids
When they’ve had enough screen time, turn off the devices and spend some time bonding with your family over backyard fun and indoor play.
Make the most of your free time with your kids. It won't be long before the holidays are over!
Teach My Kids offers a variety of printable worksheets to help your children learn and improve their maths and english skills.
Who makes the worksheets
Sunita
UK primary teacher
Every worksheet on Teach My Kids is made by Sunita, a UK primary school teacher with over ten years in the classroom. She writes each one by hand and maps it to the national curriculum, so what your child practises at home lines up with what they do at school. It's all on paper, not a screen, and takes about ten minutes a day.
Try the classroom freeWhat you're joining
This is your child's online classroom.
You're not buying a single worksheet. You log in to a space set up for your child, where the full library unlocks and everything stays in one place.
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Your own space, any time.
A login for your family. No app to install. Open it whenever suits you.
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Set to your child's year.
Pick their year group and the right worksheets unlock. Move it up as they grow.
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The whole library unlocks.
Every worksheet for their year in maths and English, matched to the school curriculum and sorted by topic. Not one sheet, all of them.
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Print what you need, when you need it.
The whole library is open, so you print this week's topics when they come up at school. No daily limit and nothing to ration. Come back as often as you like.
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Tick off what's done.
Mark each worksheet as done so you can see what your child has covered.
Common questions
Questions parents ask
- Are the worksheets made by a teacher?
- Yes. Every worksheet is created by an experienced UK primary school teacher and mapped to the national curriculum, so what your child practises lines up with school.
- How does Teach My Kids work?
- Set your child's year group and the matching maths and English worksheets unlock. Print what you need at home, sit together for ten minutes, then tick off what they have finished.
- Can I print the worksheets at home?
- Yes. They are built for paper, so you print them at home and your child works away from a screen. That is the whole point: structured practice, off the device.
Year groups
Set your child's year and their library unlocks.
Every year is mapped to the UK curriculum. Pick the year your child is in and that whole library opens up. Move it up as they grow, or drop back a year if they need to catch up.
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