Getting creative in Lockdown - Part 1

We've done a pretty good job of filling week one and it's taken us by surprise how much more challenging it is to do this over the weekend than in the week. We're thinking that we need to have some proactive creative ideas ready of our own for over the weekends to keep up the momentum and prevent us having dips.

It's really incredible to see how creative organisations are getting to keep engagement with children and we've benefited massively from online classes for things the children usually do, from dancing and arts and crafts sessions, to live disco parties and gymnastics. 

Some of our week one highlights include:

• The look on my little boy's face when we joined his tumble bees class and he saw his best friend from nursery on the screen (and then followed it up with a video chat the next day) - thank you Jayne at Tumble Bees
• My daughter showing off her good toes and naughty toes (and definitely smelly toes) at her ballet class - thank you Miss Kim at Baby Ballet
• Seeing my husband dancing around the living room with the kids doing a live movement and music class put one of the biggest smiles on my face (check it out here)
• A family game of football in the garden, as well as countless games of hide and seek in which my four year old tells us where he "isn't" going to hide
• A live reading of The Gruffalo with Bookchikkaboom (resulting in us just tickling each other pretending to be the prickles on his back)
• Dressing up as pirates and tinkerbell
• Making dens, camping and having picnics
• Visiting Chester Zoo (a place we love to go as a family) live to watch the giraffes being fed

I've seen some amazing ideas and every Mum I know is being incredible sharing links to new ideas and classes so I'm looking forward to planning out the next week with one new idea each day to keep us going. I'd love to share any other hints and tips people have.

I've got a few creative ideas up my sleeve, which I'll share as soon as we put them into practice, but in the meantime I'm storing up random household objects and would love if anyone has any ideas on what we can do with them. So far I have about a dozen toilet roll holders, a butter carton and some yoghurt pots!