Keeping children entertained and active while staying home during COVID-19

There are many families like mine currently staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We wanted to share some resources to keep everyone - children and anyone young at heart entertained and keeping active!

Want to watch feeding time at Edinurgh Zoo? https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/panda-cam/

The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour! https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/

Maths and Reading games for all ages - yes we promise they're FUN! https://www.funbrain.com/

For the more curious - daily free science and cooking experiments: http://www.clubscikidzmed.com/blog/

Game: Heads Up is a great game to increase verbal comprehension skills. You will need two teams of at least two players on each (so minimum 4 people to play). The objective of Heads Up is for a player to have their partners guess the word on the player's card without using the word itself or five additional words listed on the card:

https://www.download-free-games.com/mobile/heads-up

Want an active workout - tune in to PE with Joe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0go1pTda8

Parents - Sam Wood is providing free daily workouts at 9am via his live stream:

https://www.facebook.com/samwood28/

(if you do miss the 9am session, the daily workout is posted on the Facebook page)

A great video on hand washing - yes correct hand washing! My son and I caught ourselves washing hands a little differently after watching this 1.5 minute video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PmVJQUCm4E

Our Occupational Therapists and Psychologists are available to tailor care packs to support you while you're staying home. Just A Thought Allied Health aims to always be here for our community. If you or someone you know would like to connect - please feel free to contact us at: info@jatalliedhealth.com.au Please keep safe - while we are physically distancing, please remember to keep socially connected.