Getting Creative

Take a look at these ideas for all abilities to help you get creative whilst at home.

Need help homeschooling? Check out the Rainbow Trust 9-page downloadable activity worksheet, filled with creative writing and drawing activities.   

Don't forget June's 30 Days Wild with the Wildlife Trust - sign up online today and receive resources to your email, click here for more information or take a look at Mencap's garden activity pack. There are activities that you can try in your garden or during your daily walk, click here to download a printable worksheet.  

Bringing Hogwarts To You Our friends at Warner Bros Studio Tour Leavesden have designed sent us some activities to bring film making to your home.  Click here to be magically taken to Hogwarts and discover your inner film making skills!!

Winnie & Wilbur Stay At Home is a picture storybook about staying home........click here, take a look and have a  read!!

Why not have a go at writing your own book? Mencap have designed a template with lots of ideas and support.  Click here to take a look

Don't forget that Watford Mencap also has some resources for you:

Gamelender - we have put together a catalogue of games available for you to borrow. The catalogues can be accessed by clicking on the links below:
Games & puzzles
Dvd's
X-box 
Wii games
Bag books (multi-sensory books for people with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities)

Starting this week, we will deliver your chosen games to your door and collect 10 days later.  Delivery days are a Friday and collection days are the following Monday. For more information  click here or to book an item please contact us

Creative Goody Bags - the Children and Young People Team have made up goody bags with colouring books, games and treats.  Please contact us if your child would like one and we'll aim to get a goody bag out to you as soon as possible.

Why not try a spot the difference and then colour in the sheet afterwards

Or how about seeing if you can find all the words in the wordsearch

https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2020-04/Mencap_daily%20thoughts.pdf

Printable colouring/quiz sheets:

  • Here is a link to some NHS/carer for you to print and colour Colouring sheets
  • With it being national gardening week here are some gardening quizzes for you to print and play
  • Here is a link to some summer-themed Colouring sheets
  • Royal Mail's Thumbs Up is a sheet to colour and put in your window to thank the postmen/women for their continued hard work.

Story time:

Ozi Seven Legs is a lovely story about inclusion with Makaton signing.   

Resources for all abilities:

If you need help and resources for educating from home Twinkl is a really good site.  Some of the activities you have to pay for but a lot are free.  The free ones have a tab that says 'Free Resource'.  Take a look.

Bird feeder:
Why not try making a simple bird feeder out of a plastic milk bottle that you can decorate and put up outside your window and watch all the different birds come for their food? Take a look at Anna's bird feeder on the header of this section which she made during one of our virtual Day Opportunities sessions.