50 quick screen break ideas to give your kids’ eyes a break!
With the kids on their devices because of remote learning all day, I’ve been trying to offer fun ideas to get their eyes off of the screens.
The teachers give them “brain breaks” to give their eyes off of the screen here and there. The problem is I find them playing on their iPads instead of their chromebooks during that time! Totally defeating the purpose. When I tell them to get off of the screen, they seem unsure what to do in the 2-10 minute break they have.
So I came up with 50 quick ideas that the kids can do in the 2-10 minutes they have on break.
I even made a printable for the kids and you of course, to hang up and refer to!
- Go for a quick walk
- Go for a quick bike ride
- Write a letter to a friend
- Write in your journal
- Create a collage
- Create a vision board
- Go bird watching
- Make slime
- Play with kinetic sand
- Work on a puzzle
- Jump on a trampoline
- Collect leaves
- Make leaf rubs with the leaves
- Go to the playground
- Do a quick science experiment
- Jump in some puddles
- Read a comic book
- Create a comic book
- Take some photos
- Play tag
- Dance
- Make origami
- Play a card game
- Play with legos
- Play with air dry clay
- Bead a necklace or bracelet
- Play a quick game of basketball
- Write a poem
- Fly a kite
- Play with an R/C car or helicopter
- Walk the dog
- Play piano
- Practice your instrument for band
- Work on a sewing or knitting project
- Look through a cookbook for a new recipe
- Rake the yard
- Paint rocks
- Play with chalk outside
- Play with play dough
- Make a bird feeder out of pine ones, peanut butter and bird seed
- Play hide & seek
- Jump rope
- Play hopscotch
- Play jenga
- Do mad libs
- Play iSpy
- Make friendship bracelets
- Color
- Do a word search or crossword puzzle
- Do jumping jacks
