1. Material Hunt Around the House

Go on a materials hunt around your home. Find and list 5-10 objects made from different materials, such as wood, plastic, metal, glass, fabric or paper.

2. Waterproof Materials Investigation

Collect a few household items made from different materials (e.g. paper, foil, plastic bag, fabric, cardboard).

3. Recycle and Sort Challenge

Look through your recycling box or household waste and sort items into groups according to the materials they are made from.

1. Treasure Hunt with Directions

Create a small treasure hunt around your home or garden using the four compass directions: north, south, east and west.

2. Draw a Map of Your Bedroom

Work together to draw a simple map of your bedroom or another room in your house.

3. Explore Your Local Area

Use an online mapping tool or a paper map to look at your local area.

1. Create a Titanic Timeline

Work with your child to create a simple timeline of key events:

• The Titanic being built.
• The ship setting sail.
• The collision with the iceberg.
• The sinking of the Titanic.

Encourage your child to talk about what happened first, next and last.

2. Family History Detective

Talk to your child about important events in your family's past. Look at old photographs or keepsakes and discuss what they can tell us about history.

Explain that historians use different sources of evidence, such as photographs, newspapers and personal accounts, to learn about events like the Titanic.

3. Design a Safer Ship

After learning about the Titanic, ask your child to draw and label a ship that includes features to keep passengers safe.

They might include:

• More lifeboats.
• Safety equipment.
• Emergency alarms.
• Clear signs and instructions.

1. Colour Mixing Fun

Using paints, food colouring in water or colouring pencils, encourage your child to experiment with mixing colours.

Can they discover how to make:

• Orange
• Green
• Purple

Talk about which colours are primary colours and which are secondary colours.

2. Colour Hunt Around the Home

Challenge your child to find objects that match the colours on a colour wheel.

Can they find:

• Something red, blue and yellow?
• Something orange, green and purple?

Ask them to sort their discoveries into primary and secondary colours.

3. Create a Colour Wheel Masterpiece

Help your child create their own colourful picture using as many colours from the colour wheel as possible.

Encourage them to:

• Use warm colours (reds, oranges and yellows).
• Use cool colours (blues, greens and purples).
• Talk about how different colours can make us feel.

1. Become a Weather Reporter

Encourage your child to observe the weather each day for a week and record:

• Whether it is sunny, cloudy, rainy or windy.
• The temperature (if you have access to a thermometer).
• What clothes are suitable for the weather.

At the end of the week, talk about any patterns they noticed and what a meteorologist does to help predict the weather.

2. Seasonal Nature Walk

Go for a walk and look for signs of the current season. Can your child spot:

• Changes in trees and plants?
• Different types of weather?
• Animals behaving differently?

Discuss how the environment changes throughout the year and what makes each season special.

3. Day and Night Detective

Over a few days, notice what time it gets light in the morning and dark in the evening.

Ask your child:

• Is the day getting longer or shorter?
• How do we know when it is daytime and nighttime?
• Which season do they think has the longest days?

1. Compare Two Countries

Look at a map or globe together and find the United Kingdom and Somalia.

Talk about:

• Which country is closer to the Equator.
• Which country you think is hotter or colder.
• How the weather might affect what people wear and do each day.

Encourage your child to discuss any similarities and differences they can think of.

2. Explore Your Local Area

Take a walk around your local area and look for human and physical features.

Can your child spot:

• Human features, such as houses, roads and shops?
• Physical features, such as hills, rivers, trees or fields?

Talk about how people care for these places and why they are important.

3. Planet Protectors Challenge

Choose one small action your family can take to help look after the planet for a week.

Ideas include:

• Turning off lights when they are not needed.
• Recycling household waste.
• Using a reusable water bottle.
• Picking up litter safely with an adult.

1. Fabric Hunt Around the Home

Challenge your child to find different fabric items around the house, such as:

• Clothing
• Towels
• Cushions
• Curtains

Talk about the different textures, colours and patterns. Ask your child why different fabrics are used for different purposes.

2. Practise a Running Stitch

Using a piece of card with holes punched around the edge and some wool or string, encourage your child to practise threading in and out to create a simple running stitch pattern.

This helps develop the fine motor skills needed for sewing and builds confidence before using a needle.

3. Design a Bag Tag

Invite your child to design a bag tag on paper before making it in class.

They could:

• Draw a favourite animal or character.
• Add their initials.
• Choose colours and decorations they would like to use.

1. Flight Through Time

Talk with your child about how people travel today compared to 100 years ago.

Can they put these forms of transport in order from oldest to newest?

• Hot air balloon
• Aeroplane
• Jet aeroplane
• Helicopter

Discuss how inventions in flight have changed the way people travel around the world.

2. Aviation Heroes Research

Choose one famous aviator, such as Amy Johnson, Bessie Coleman, or the Wright brothers, and find out three interesting facts about them together.

Encourage your child to think about:

• What made them special?
• What challenges did they overcome?
• How did they change the world of aviation?

3. How Flight Helps Us

Look for examples of how flight affects everyday life.

Talk about how aircraft are used for:

• Holidays and travel
• Delivering goods
• Emergency services
• Firefighting and rescue missions

1. Plant Detective

Go on a walk in your garden, local park or neighbourhood and look for different plants.

Can your child:

• Find a wild plant and a garden plant?
• Spot flowers, leaves, stems and roots (where visible)?
• Describe the colours, shapes and sizes of the plants they see?

Encourage them to talk about the similarities and differences between plants.

2. Grow Your Own Plant

Plant a seed or bulb together and observe it over several weeks.

Ask your child to:

• Draw a picture of the plant each week.
• Measure how tall it has grown.
• Notice any changes to the leaves, stem or flowers.

Discuss what plants need to grow healthy and strong.

3. Parts of a Plant Hunt

Choose a plant and see if your child can identify its different parts:

• Roots
• Stem
• Leaves
• Flower

Talk about the job of each part. For example, roots help the plant take in water and keep it anchored in the ground, while leaves help the plant make food.

1. Flower Spotter Challenge

Take a walk in your garden, a park or your local area and encourage your child to look closely at flowers.

Can they describe:

• The shape of the petals?
• The colours they can see?
• Any patterns or textures?

Encourage them to make a quick sketch of their favourite flower and include as much detail as possible.

2. Nature Printing

Collect a few fallen leaves, flowers or petals and use them to create prints at home.

Your child could:

• Dip them in paint and press them onto paper.
• Arrange them into repeating patterns.
• Compare the different shapes and textures they create.

Talk about how artists use printmaking to create interesting effects.

3. Create a 3D Flower

Using paper, recycled materials, playdough or clay, help your child create a flower model.

Encourage them to:

• Think carefully about the flower's shape and form.
• Add details such as petals, leaves and stems.
• Choose colours that match a real flower or invent their own.

1. Seaside Feature Hunt

If you visit the coast, or look at photographs online or in books, encourage your child to spot different coastal features, such as:

• Beaches
• Cliffs
• Harbours
• Rock pools

Ask them to describe what they can see and discuss whether the features are physical (natural) or human (made by people).

2. Map Explorer

Look at a map of the United Kingdom together and find some famous seaside towns.

Can your child:

• Locate the coast?
• Identify where the land meets the sea?
• Find a seaside town they would like to visit?

Talk about why people enjoy visiting coastal areas and what activities they can do there.

3. Design Your Dream Seaside Town

Challenge your child to draw and label their own seaside town.

They could include:

• A beach or harbour
• Shops and cafés
• A lighthouse
• A playground
• A holiday park or hotel

1. Animal Group Sorting

Look through books, magazines or online images and ask your child to sort animals into different groups:

• Mammals
• Birds
• Fish
• Reptiles
• Amphibians
• Invertebrates

Talk about the characteristics of each group and what makes them similar or different.

2. Pet Care Helper

If you have a pet, encourage your child to help care for it (with adult supervision).

Discuss:

• What the animal eats.
• How it stays healthy.
• What it needs to be happy and safe.

If you do not have a pet, choose a favourite animal and find out how people care for it in zoos, farms or wildlife centres.

3. Animal Body Parts Hunt

Choose a variety of animals and compare their body parts.

Can your child identify:

• Wings, fins or legs?
• Fur, feathers or scales?
• Beaks, mouths or tails?

1. Tower Builders

Using everyday items such as building blocks, paper cups, cardboard boxes or recycled materials, challenge your child to build the tallest tower they can.

Talk about:

• What made the tower strong?
• Which shapes worked best?
• What caused the tower to wobble or fall over?

Encourage them to make improvements to their design.

2. Join and Test

Provide a selection of materials and joining methods, such as:

• Tape
• Glue
• String
• Split pins

Ask your child to join pieces of paper or card together and test which method creates the strongest structure.

Discuss why some joins are more secure than others.

3. Structure Spotter

Look around your home or local area for different structures, such as:

• Bridges
• Fences
• Play equipment
• Buildings

1. Chocolate Investigation

The Aztecs valued chocolate very highly. Together, explore foods that contain chocolate and talk about where chocolate comes from.

Ask your child:

• Have they ever seen a cocoa bean?
• Why do they think chocolate was so important to the Aztecs?
• How is chocolate enjoyed today compared to Aztec times?

2. Create an Aztec City Map

Using paper and pencils, help your child design a simple map of an imaginary city.

Encourage them to include:

• Roads or pathways
• Homes
• Temples
• Markets
• Waterways

Talk about why the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, was built on an island and how people travelled around the city.

3. Be an History Detective

Look at pictures of Aztec artefacts, buildings or artwork in books or online.

Ask your child:

• What can they see?
• What does it tell them about Aztec life?
• What questions would they like to ask someone who lived there?

1. Create a Still Life Display

Gather a selection of everyday objects, such as fruit, flowers, toys or household items, and arrange them on a table.

Ask your child to think about:

• Which objects look good together?
• How can they arrange them to make the display interesting?
• Which object stands out the most?

Encourage them to draw what they see.

2. Shape and Colour Hunt

Look at objects around your home and discuss the different:

• Shapes (circle, oval, rectangle, triangle)
• Colours
• Patterns
• Textures

Ask your child to sort objects by shape or colour and explain their choices. This will help them notice the details artists look for when creating still-life artwork.

3. Mini Artist Challenge

Choose three simple objects and ask your child to sketch them as carefully as possible.

Encourage them to:

• Look closely before drawing.
• Notice the size and shape of each object.
• Add colour to match the real objects.