Make the Most of the Stay At Home Order with these 101 Activities to Do With Kids. Download the Free Printable Family Quarantine Bucket List!

Remember a few weeks ago when life was “normal”? We were all rushing back and forth to work, co-op, school, practices, activities every single day.

All the memories, days, weeks, years were FLYING by at light year speed.

Now, as of mid-March, life has suddenly come to a SCREECHING halt. With Social Distancing and having to Shelter in Place these last couple weeks in March seemed like 3 months (not a bad thing).

Why is that?

• This is our “New Normal”.
• We are told to social distance which forces us to slow down.
• Because we are mandated to stay at home with our families and only go out if we need to.
• There’s no choice but to stop rushing through life.

That’s why I’ve created this family quarantine bucket list

So we can make the best of this time. Embrace it. Enjoy it. Turn what was meant for evil into good.

Don’t misunderstand, this virus is awful. We are in an unprecedented spiritual/physical battle of a lifetime and I’m absolutely not trying to make light of what so many are suffering through.

As for those on the front lines and those directly affected we should be joining our faith together and lifting them up in prayer every single moment, sending our thanks and lending our support in any way we can.

But this is a (hopefully) once in a lifetime opportunity to STOP and PRAY more, PLAY more and be more INTENTIONAL in our relationships with God, our spouse and our kids.

Those are our three priority relationships – in that exact order.

Though we may not intend to let them fade to the back of the line, when busyness and life take over – we are forced to succumb to its pressure. That is all part of the enemies’ plan, to steal, kill and destroy marriage, as it was intended by God and the family unit as a whole. 

What satan has woven for evil, God can surely reweave for good.

We are told to stay home, that is “our” part in all this. That is how we can flatten the curve.

But we also have a choice to how we respond to this “new normal” we can focus on the virus and watch Fox News all day or focus on faith and turn it on its head and spend your days enjoying this new unhurried pace.

I’m assuming since you are here reading this post you want to take advantage of this valuable time and enjoy your kids. 

Here is a Family Quarantine Bucket List of Activities

1. Have a Coloring Contest
2. Send Handwritten Letters to Friends and Family
3. Have a Family Netflix Binge Day
4. Have a Disney Movie Marathon
5. Enjoy a Bonfire
6. Do a Puzzle Together
7. Get Material and Make Masks for Healthcare Workers
8. Do an Elderly Neighbors Yard Work
9. Have a Picnic in Your Backyard
10. Pitch a Tent in Your Backyard
11. Read the Bible Together Everyday
12. Start a Family Read-aloud Book
13. Make a Birdfeeder and fill it
14. Start a Garden
15. Plant Some Flowers
16. Sing Karaoke Together
17. Have a Dance Party
18. Put on a Family Play or Skit
19. Clean Out Closets and Donate Toys, Clothes Etc.
20. Make Homemade Bread
21. Have a Poetry Teatime
22. Have a PJ day
23. Make Cards for all the Bdays Coming up
24. Make Homemade Pizza Together
25. Have a Indoor or Outside Photo Shoot
26. Do Holy Communion as Often as Possible
27. Light a Candle and Tell Stories
28. Make Homemade Doughnuts
29. Go Through Old Photos Together and Start an Album or Scrapbook
30. Make a Prayer Calendar – On each day put the name of friends, family, the president, pastor etc. and pray together as a family for each person on their day
31. Start a New Family Tradition
32. Build a Fort Out of Blankets and Sleep in it
33. Get Take-Out to Support a Local Business
34. Have a Screen Free Day Together or Several
35. Take a Hike Off the Beaten Path
36. Use Operation World and pray for people in different countries each day to know Jesus
37. Pray and seek God for what He would like you to do to be the hands and feet of Jesus in your community
38. Donate Old Towels and Bedding to an Animal Shelter
39. Watch a Favorite Movie from Your Childhood with Your Kids 
40. Build Something Together 
41. Work on Life Skills – Teach Your Kids to Knit, Sew, Cook, Change a Tire Etc.
42. Camp Out in the Living Room
43. Splash in Rain Puddles on a Rainy Day
44. Create Sidewalk Art
45. Paint Rocks
46. Photograph Nature
47. Watch the Birds
48. Listen to a Kid-Friendly Podcast or Audio Drama
49. Fly a Kite
50. Play Hopscotch
51. Make a Suncatcher
52. Take a Cooking Class With Your Kids
53. Make Playdough
54. Have an Outdoor Tea Party
55. Play Hide N Seek in the Dark
56. Stuck Indoors Due to Weather? Inside Activities to Check Out
57. Do an Indoor Scavenger Hunt
58. Start a New Habit
59. Play a family game of badminton, volleyball, basketball etc. 
60. Watch the Sunrise
61. Watch the Sunset 
62. Teach Your Kids a New Card Game
63. Learn Taekwondo Together on YouTube
64. Follow Your Interests and Take an Online Course
65. Start a Nature Journal
66. Watch Interesting Educational Videos On YouTube
67. Make Homemade Ice Cream
68. Make Paper Airplanes and Have a Contest
69. Encourage Gratitude and Thankfulness – Free Printable Thankfulness Journal
70. Make a New Craft from My Arts and Crafts Board on Pinterest
71. Make Jello Jigglers
72. Go on a Bike Ride
73. Play Balloon Volleyball
74. Jump Rope
75. Start Doing a Daily Family Workout
76. Have a Facetime or Zoom Video Chat With Extended Family
77. Write a Letter to Your Future Self
78. Put Together a Time Capsule
79. Take a Free Art Lesson Together
80. Go on a Virtual Field Trip
81. Look Ahead to the Future Start Planning Your Next Family Trip 
82. Do a Fun Science Experiment try this One Using Skittles
83. Do a Fun Obstacle Course
84. Pretend the Floor is Lava
85. Play Charades or Pictionary
86. Try out Some Just Dance YouTube Videos
87. Try a 30 Minute Challenge
88. Make a Train or Fort Out of Cardboard Boxes
89. Have a Family Nerf Gun War
90. Bead a Necklace or Bracelet
91. Hide Something a Make a Treasure Map
92. Play Frisbee
93. Go for a Walk
94. Make a Mini Town with Legos or Blocks
95. Go on a Nature Hunt
96. Have a Pillow Fight
97. Thumb Wrestle
98. Stargaze
99. Learn to Juggle
100. Cloud Watch
101. Play “Would You Rather”

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Add a fun spin on it – put all these in an activity jar and draw a new activity each day for your family to do. Whatever you decide to do with your time, I hope you enjoy it. Stay healthy and safe.

What are you doing to make the most of this time?

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Forest Rose

Forest Rose is a God Loving, Blessed Wife, &  Mama to 3 girls. She’s passionate about lifting moms out of the trenches that are discouraged, overwhelmed, or feeling alone or isolated. Her hope is to point them to Christ and equip them to rise up with a newfound hope and joy within, that He alone can provide. Besides blogging, she also loves to create printables!