Art
- Photograph your parents or siblings
- Draw your parents
- Play a game of Pictionary
- Play the folding game of drawing a crazy creature
- Play eye spy
- Spot the difference puzzles
- Take your kids to a show or an exhibition
- Make a sandcastle at the beach
- Build a sculpture from the recycling
Music
- Mini recital of a piece with friends and family on an afternoon followed by afternoon tea
- Take your child to a free concert in the community
- Visit a music shop together
- Go to the town library and look through the huge selection of free music
- Share a favourite song
- Play for a children’s hospital or rest home
- Go busking
- Busk at home while your parents cook dinner
- Do an online YouTube tutorial and learn a song
Drama
- Read lines out loud with a parent to test memory
- Have a game of charades with family members
- Check character accent or voice style with someone from home, try and be as believable as possible
- Teach your family theatre sports or one of the drama games
- Mime your dinnertime conversation
- Interview parent/grandparent/older family member for character details and development
- Watch TV with a family member (if it’s relevant to study eg listening to accents, or studying a genre e.g. soap opera, a drama)
- Have a conversation in a made up language
- Go to a play
- Make a puppet out of a sock try it out on family
- Ask family members for suggestions for theme music and act in the style of that music for 10 minutes
- Copy someone in detail for 10 minutes
- Go to a public place and observe people for 20 minutes then make up a story about the people you see