While you’re at home, see how many of these challenges you can complete!
- Read a new book. Read Brightly has lots of recommendations for each age range.
- Have an indoor snowball fight. Build pillow forts and use balled up socks as snowballs.
- Make indoor s’mores
- Challenge yourself to go a day without tech
- Message a friend from school you haven’t spoken to since lockdown began
- Make a music video with your siblings/family/parents
- Make friendship bracelets for you and a friend or sibling
- Try a new food
- Make a photo collage
- Think of something that needs to be invented and design it
- Is there anything you regret? Write it down an then tear it up as a sign you’re letting it go.
- Have a Come Dine With Me competition with your family
- If you have a garden have a waterfight
- Write a list of ten things your thankful for in lockdown
- Do a spring clean in your room and see what old memories you uncover
- If there’s anything you don’t want give it to a sibling who might like it
- Download Duolingo and learn a new language
- Write a song
- Pick a number from 1-150. Read that number Psalm in the Bible
- Find an inspirational quote or Bible verse and make it into a poster you can put up or WITH PARENT PERMISSION paint it on your wall
- Try one of Dyson’s Engineer Challenges
- Memorise a Bible verse.
- Read a chapter of the Bible to someone else.
- Learn the actions to a new song.
- Write a letter to someone.
- Bake a cake.
- Learn to say “Hello” in another language.
- Learn to sew a button.
- Paint a picture.
- Say a prayer for someone.
- Say a prayer for the world.
- Write a poem.
- Write and perform a play.
- Learn the 10 Commandments (by heart!)
- Write a list of 10 things you are thankful for.
- Help with a chore.
- Learn all the different countries in Europe.
- Learn all 66 books of the Bible (in order!). This song might help you.
- Read all of the Gospel of John.
- Illustrate a book.
- Build a tower.
- Set a world record.
- Write a comic of your favourite Bible story.
- See how many star jumps you can do in 10 seconds..
- Learn to cook something new.
- Learn the 10 Plagues of Egypt.
- Learn your 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11 times tables.
- Invent a secret handshake for your family.
- Write a song.
- Read to someone new.
- Go for a run or ride your bike.
- Go cloud spotting.
- Go star gazing.
- Go bird watching.
- Make a fact file about an animal.
- Make a fact file about Jesus.
- Make pancakes.
- Write a letter to the Queen.
- Call a friend and see how they are doing.
- Learn all the countries in Africa. This song might help you.
- Learn all 50 American states. This song might help you.
- Go for a nature walk.
- Make someone a nice cup of tea (biscuits optional!),
- Make someone a nice cup of coffee.
- Complete a jigsaw.
- Solve a sudoku.
- Complete a wordsearch.
- Make your own cinema and have a movie night.
- Build a fort.
- Hunt for minibeasts.
- Learn all of Jesus’s “I Am” statements. You can find these in the Gospel of John.
- Make a wish jar. Say a prayer with each wish you put in the jar.
- Learn to make origami.
- Read a new Psalm each day.
- Have a screen free day.
- Learn to write your name in Japanese.
- Learn how to do a handstand.
- Learn how to do a headstand.
- Learn to cartwheel.
- Make a portrait of someone in your family.
- Make a self portrait.
- Do some junk modeling.
- Count to 1000.
- Make a collage using things from the garden.
- Learn to count to 100 in another language.
- Write a short story about one of Jesus’s miracles. You can read about Jesus’s miracles in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
- Learn to say the alphabet backwards.
- Learn the flags of all the countries in Europe.
- Learn the NATO phonetic alphabet.
- Tidy your room.
- Create a new book cover for your favourite book.
- Design a new piece of play equipment for a park/your school/your garden.
- Do some gardening.
- Plant some vegetables.
- Build a den or go camping in your garden.
- Read the story of creation in Genesis.
- Write a song or poem thanking God for the world He made.
- Make a treasure hunt.
- Dress up as a superhero.
- Make your own puzzle.
- Collect some tadpoles and watch them grow.
- Play Pooh sticks.
- Play a board game.
- Make your own board game.
- Make up your own imaginary language.
- Make your own play dough.
- Discover a new podcast. For younger children, check out storynory. For young people check out BBC sounds or Spotify.
- Record your own podcast.
- Make your own garland/banner for your room by plaiting strips of material.
- Make ice lollies in the freezer.
- Write a letter to God every week. Write about everything that has happened. Thank God for all the good things and ask for His help with any struggles.
- Write and record your own song.
- Shoot a music video.
- Have a family drum circle.
- Become a teacher. Learn a new skill and teach it your family!
- Write your own newspaper for your family and neighbours. Include lots of positive news!
- Take up yoga. If you are a beginner start here, if you want something the whole family can do start here.
- Take time to practise your dance moves. Look here for inspiration.
- Learn the names of the plants in your garden.
- Go tree spotting, learn the names of the different trees you see.
- Write your own bedtime story.