Creative Activities to Keep Children Engaged at Home

Engage children at home with fun and educational activities like making apple chips, reducing food waste, inventing alien-themed meals, creating artwork from food peels, playing interactive games, and celebrating Earth Hour together. Encourage learning through cooking, zero-waste initiatives, and creative play while fostering a deeper connection to the environment. Keep kids entertained and inspired with these imaginative ideas!

• Childrens activities
• Home engagement
• Creative learning
• Family fun
• Zero waste

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1. Activities for children who #stay_at_home Apple chips. Slice the apples, powder them with cinnamon, leave them for one hour in the oven. Yum! Become a Zero Waste detective. Place a post-it on your fridge. For a few days write on it what food gets to the garbage bin. What can we do to throw less food? Discuss with your family and find solutions. #zero_waste What do you think aliens eat and you also happen to have in your basket with toys? Maybe a lego soup with slime pudding? Or modelling paste pizza with puzzle salad? Invent a menu with starter, main dish and desert and prepare an Alien dinner! #cook_at_home

2. Activities for children who #stay_at_home Boiled eggs mice Be creative with the leftovers Create a monster out of fruit and vegetable peels. #zero_waste I too can become a Master Chef. Design a new model of chef hat. #cook_at_home What s your name? Name a fruit or vegetable and it will be more difficult to throw it away. Who can find the funniest name? I ll start: Mister Long-nose Carrot or Princess Muffin#zero_waste

3. Activities for children who #stay_at_home Let s play! Players stick on each other s foreheads post-its with names of fruit and vegetables. Nobody knows what is written on their own forehead. So everyone has to guess by taking turns and asking Yes/No questions. For example: Am I a fruit? Do I grow in our country? Am I red? Am I sweet? Prepare your own desert! Mix cereals and nuts with honey and a fruit puree. This will become a paste you can turn into small balls shaped like candies. #cook_at_home Become a Zero Waste detective. Check the expiry date on food packaging. Suggest to your family to start eating the food that expires first. #zero_waste #fruit_and_veggies

4. Activities for children who #stay_at_home #cook_at_home Pizza! Create a pizza recipe with only local ingredients (grown or produced in our country). Instead of dough, use dry slices of bread dunk in milk. #zero_waste #choose_local_ingredients Musical challenge. Choose a song. Change its lyrics so that they contain names of fruit and vegetables (or other type of food). You can also invent a special dance to this song! Reporter Zucchini in action! Ask an adult to tell you the story of the best food from his/her childhood. Use a Zucchini as a microphone ;-)

5. Activities for children who #stay_at_home 28 March 20:30-21:30 Invite your family to celebrate #EarthHour2020 The green New Year s Eve. Before you turn off the lights at 20:30, do a countdown 3... 2... 1... Earth Hour! You can have a candle-lit dinner together. I thank our Planet for... During Earth Hour, each one says what he/she is the most grateful for from the gifts of the Planet Smile! Don t forget to take pictures. They will become treasured memories.

6. Activities for children who #stay_at_home Apple balls. Make balls out of grated apples, flour, breadcrumb + sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and fry (or bake) them. #cook_at_home Become a Zero Waste detective Verific s n tatea cet enilor fructe i legume din buc t rie. Dac unele au nceput s se strice, nl tur partea mai pu in bun . Cu partea bun , g te te o delicioas re et #zero_waste What has Mister Long-nose Carrot been up to? Have you ever seen a potato with a nose? Or a garlic with a moustache? Direct a short play where funny-faced fruit and vegetables are the characters. #fruit_and_veggies Both a detective AND a gardener?! Plant a vegetable or an aromatic plant. #fruit_and_veggies

7. Activities for children who #stay_at_home My own cookbook. Start collecting recipes that you have already tried out. Create your own cookbock. How could it look like? Like a real booklet that you manufacture, color and decorate? Or one created on your computer, with photographs and text? #cook_at_home Where do fruit and vegetables grow? Draw and then cut out various fruit and vegetables, then place them on a world map. You may ask an adult for help. #fruit_and_veggies

8. Activities for children who #stay_at_home Your contribution to the family budget Calculate how much money you saved since you have stopped buying unhealthy snacks from the kiosk. The meatless sandwich challenge How many delicious recipes can you find? #fruit_and_veggies The desert of the future In the year 2050, which desert do you think will be the most popular? Imagine how an advertising for this desert would look or sound like. #cook_at_home