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Activity Sheets for Younger Children

Book Review

Online Safety Tips for Mothers

Colouring Sheets

Online Safety Tips for Teens

Activity Ideas for Mothers



You’ll need a Computer.

A tablet or phone will also work if you don’t-have access to a computer

Word Processor

eg. Google Docs or Microsoft Word

Internet Access

Digital World Traveller 6-10 years / 1-2 hours activity

One of the best ways to learn about something is to see and experience it, often reading and seeing pictures of something is less effective for long term memory. Traveling the world, while inaccessible at the best of times, is pretty much impossible now. But we have a fun project all about research, discovery and travelling the world.

The challenge to find an example of everything on the list on Google Earth or Street View! Use internet searches to discover how to identify and locate each item, then find it!

What to do:

1. Print or write out the list of things to find. Here’s our list of suggestions, feel free to choose anything you think would be a good challenge!

2. Start researching! Use Google Earth to find satellite images of your discoveries. Make sure to record what helped identify the place and any cool facts you found out along the way!

3. Present the results. Make sure to include what was easy, what was hard, and how you managed to find them.

4. Finding it too easy? Try challenging yourself not to use the Google Earth search bar. Look at maps online and try to work things out visually.

Learn more:

For a deeper dive into the Earth’s fauna and history we recommend checking out Google Earth’s Voyager function where you can find curated virtual trips around the world on themes like: Earth’s Keynote Species, Natural Wonders and more.

Oxbow Lake The World’s Tallest Waterfall

Redwood Forest A Tiger Habitat

A Volcano The Biggest Mall in America

A Synagogue A Natural Arch

The Place Parchment Paper was Invented Hexagonal Rocks

A Baobab Tree A Geyser

Tips and Tricks

This activity is all about research. You may feel that encouraging Google is cheating, but knowing how to search for something in an information overload world is a really valuable skill, especially for a coder!



You’ll need.

Open access to the whole family’s wardrobes!

Become Someone Else 3-5 years / 1+ hours activity

To get far in life, being yourself is the best person you can be. But sometimes it’s difficult to know what it means to be yourself.

This project is a fun way for kids to explore what it means to be you, by being someone else for a bit. Pretend play has been shown to improve kids’ language skills and there is evidence that helps to develop social skills and awareness of ‘other people’s minds’.

This is a fun dress up and play activity, it can be quick or go on all day, continuing through other activities! It can be a challenge you set your child, or a fun activity to do together.

What to do:

1. Start by discussing with your child what someone who is the opposite of them would be like. Allow them to come to the conclusions, making suggestions if they get stuck. Maybe they love homework and hate chocolate, maybe they’re a different gender, maybe they can communicate through dance.

2. Give that person a name. It’s always good to have a separation between the real and the pretend, we find that naming the character helps with this.

3. Dress up! Discuss how that person might dress, if they’re not sure, just start going through clothes in the house and see what fits the character.

4. Pretend! Stay as the alter ego for a set amount of time. If anyone has new ideas and wants to change, go for it! It’s all part of the fun.

5. At the end, it’s important to talk about what’s been learned from the experience. Ask questions like: How did it feel being that other person? Do you still think they are the opposite of you? Do you think you’d like to dress like that more often?

Tips and Tricks

Some kids will really embrace this and others will find it much harder. If a child is struggling, we definitely recommend parents joining in as well. Also try pretending to be a specific person, even swap places for the day!

You can find more activities on the Tech Will Save Us website and you should be able to download their free e-book for similar activities using the link below:

www.techwillsaveus.com/learn-at-home-ebook

http://www.techwillsaveus.com/learn-at-home-ebook



Words to describe how I feel:

What have I learnt from this experience:

I am most thankful for:

The 3 things I am most excited to do when this is over:



Colour this to look like your

house

What things are you doing to help feel connected and have fun outside?


HandprintsPrint the hands of all people living in your home (in different

colours) and place your hands here


Letter to Myself


Letter from Mum


Welcome to Summer Word Search


Colouring Activity Sheets







Online Safetyfor teens: staying safe on video calling

House Party Google Hangout

Turn off location sharing from the settings

Switch on ghost mode so others are not notified every time you login.

Do not add people you do not know.

Ensure your Google Account is secure, checking in account settings that no one else has access.

Do not share locations; check that location permissions are off.

Set two factor authentication on your Google account.

FaceTime WhatsApp

Ensure you Apple password is secure and you have two factor authentication switched on before using FaceTime.

Turn off location permissions.

Set two factor verification on and ensure you are sharing information with contacts only.

Skype Snapchat

Set two factor authentication to ensure your account is safe.

Turn off locations use from settings as your contacts can see your location as part of your presence information.

Switch on ghost mode so you are not sharing your live location with anyone.

Don’t accept requests from users you don’t know.

Don’t share you Snapchat password with anyone, even best friends.


Creating Safe Passwords

Do not use name or date of births Use long phrases

If your passwords are set as the name or date of birth of someone close to you, it will be very easy for people to guess and get access to your account.

Do not use identifying information as your passwords

Long phrases are best as it will make it hard for others to guess it.

You should also use numbers and upper and lowercase letters both when setting your passwords

Don’t just use one password Be careful of phishing attacks

A lot people use the same password for all account which means if one account is hacked then all your accounts can be compromised.

To make sure all your accounts and devices are safe, use different passwords for every account.

Ever received emails or text messages with a random link asking you to open it?

These emails or messages can be “phishing” attacks, if you open the link and input your password and other information it can fall in to the hand of scammers.

Be wary of those emails and do not open links.

Change passwords often Don’t share passwords

Changing your passwords often, every two to three months can ensure that all your accounts remain safe. Change passwords often.

Ensure that you are using two factor authentication for all of your accounts.

Do not share your passwords with anyone, even your best friends or cousins.

If your passwords fall in the wrong hands, they can access to all your accounts and change information without your consent.

Find out more on passwords safety and password worksheets here:

https://ineqe.com/2020/04/09/password-creator-pack

https://ineqe.com/2020/04/09/password-creator-pack/


Online Safetytips for mothers

Safe search Social media

Ensure children are using safer search sites such as: Kiddle: www.kiddle.co

YouTube Kids: www.youtube.com/kids. If you go into Google and enter Kiddle this will bring up a new safer search bar for children to use.

No child under 13 should be using social media platforms, if your child is using a social media platform regularly check through the settings and privacy and their friend lists. It is also advisable to have your child on social media as a friend to monitor posts and stories they share.

Online conversations: chat forums / game consoles WiFi parental controls

Encourage children to use sites and online chat forums when an adult is in the room to monitor all conversations. It is also advisable to have any gaming devices used in the same room as an adult.

Set parental controls through the WIFI to ensure that your children’s devices are not be used during the night and they are not online speaking to unknown users without your knowledge.

App downloads WiFi parental controls

If children are invited to download an app it is advisable for an adult to download the app and check through security and privacy concerns. These can also be found in the app store under reviews.

For any help and support check out Refuge’s TechBot on the Refuge website:

www.refuge.org.uk/our-work/our-services/ tech-abuse-empowerment-service

www.kiddle.co

www.youtube.com/kids




Indoors activities to try with your children

Some indoors activities suggestions:

How to make a glitter jar at home:

• Use an old wallpaper roll and draw around the child and get them to research the body parts and how they work and draw them/colour them on the roll.

• Create a list of 10-20 items to find in the house (do you remember these from school) they were on an a4 sheet of paper in boxes and you had to search for each item and collect them. For instance a leaf, milk top, penny, blu tac etc. and you cello tape each item to the squares and complete them all to win a prize.

• Making potato paints so cutting shapes into potatoes and colouring shapes onto paper.

• DIY fairy garden or get an old jar and fill it with mud, moss, grass, leafs etc. and fill with water then put the lid on and watch the bugs grow.

• DIY fireworks in a glass – food colouring (as many as you have), olive oil and water and mix and watch the results.

• Pebble painting for the garden.

Glitter jars are a useful mindfulness tool at home and school. Watching the glitter swirl to the bottom of the jar gives kids time to calm down and regain control.

1. Pour half a cup of water to the jar; if you have distilled water go with that.

2. Invite kids to pour 1/2 cup of glitter glue or clear glue into the jar.

3. If you are choosing to do so, add 1–2 teaspoons of extra glitter to the jar.

4. Fill up the remainder of the jar with distilled water.

5. Use a hot glue gun to squeeze a ring of glue around the lid of the jar. Press the lid onto the jar and secure with the metal ring.

6. Shake the jar well to distribute the glitter. (It takes many shakes and a rest overnight to convince the glue to disperse completely.)

For more activities check www.firefliesandmudpies.com

https://www.firefliesandmudpies.com/

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