How do I engage kids at home during a coronavirus lockdown?

Home is the primary and immediate area of socialization. So it is important for us to make the home an interesting and fun place and a very compatible and friendly environment to promote and maintain healthy relationships between all the members and most importantly.
All of us due to the technological advancements, are mostly into our mobile phones. We can use games and apps on our phones to keep them engaged in the process of learning.
We can also do some healthy family bonding activities so that they enjoy some quality time with the family and learn from it at the same time.
One of the best way is by playing group games. Board games like Ludo, snakes and ladders and chess. These games help maintaining solidarity and friendliness amongst the family members and could cater to increase the thought processes and iq level of children. Playing dumb charades , antakshari, singing , dancing and organizing small quizzes among the members helps in building the kid's morale and through quiz, his general knowledge increases.
You can binge watch family movies, comedy movies, historical and informative movies so that everyone will enjoy and kids will learn out of it.
Games like monopoly etc might help to provide some quality time. Games like crosswords, scrabble will help increase their vocabulary and knowledge.

Reading them stories and books will increase their literary skills, and their knowledge of books. 

All these activites, including organzing quizzes from their academic books will help increase their brainpower and develop them better.

Engaging is a tough deal during pandemic when the kid and parents are both locked down and under Isolation/Observation, but its the best time to communicate, understand, connect with them and make them best friends for life.

1. Gardening (Indoor Plants)

They can start up with small indoor plant to grow and learn about them and their benefits.

2. Art and Craft with the Waste & Vintage products

Will engage them with a more on practical involvement through colors, scrap being used there to turn vintage to creative products.

3. Wall Painting

New wall waiting to get painted can have your kids hand patches, leaving a memory and sense of belongingness to the wall/activity.

4. Clay Modelling

They can be exposed to clay modelling while being in the house and may can get interest and develop activities to be a micro artist in upcoming future.

5. Housebound Treasure Hunt

This will improve their Hunt ability to fetch through potential clues’ for the product being hided and improve their patience.

There could be many more added in this to get them engaged and create an amazing experience with mesmerizing memories and to engage them during locked down.

I hope it’ll help you.

In the busy lives that we all lead, we rarely get time to spend some quality time with the kids.

• Understand their likes, interests, hobbies, what gives them happiness. If they like Painting or Singing or Dance, encourage them to do it. Record some of those videos. They will make for great memories.
• Try to involve them in some cooking activities. Instead of just preparing the dishes they like, have them also help you. It will make them much more happy.
• Watch their favorite movies, together as a family.

You can also upload your kid’s talents on www.mysuperbrain.com. It is a great way to encourage them to take some of those talents seriously. It gives them great motivation.