Home Learning from DAISI Education

Such an Inspiring collection of Links & Resources”

This long list of links and resources was put together over the summer of 2020 and has continued to grow ever since. Many thanks to those who have suggested ideas and links.

We hope you find them useful.

Online Educational Resources   |   Early Years   |   Get Outdoors  |   Science Experiments 

  Reading ActivitiesCraft ActivitiesBaking Activities  |  Museums and Galleries 

   Take a Tour  |   Discover New Things   |   Live Theatre  |   Dance and Make Music   

 Free Colouring Sheets  |    Primary Resource List    |    Secondary Resource List    

Fun Activities with your child at home..

We have collated ideas from a wide variety of sources – from baking to bear hunts; music to magic tricks – giving you 100s of fun activities to do with your child at home during #lockdown.


Online Educational Resources

Check out these links for free resources, lessons, games and more.

BBC Bitesize

GCSE | KS3 | KS2 | KS1

Live lessons on iPlayer, collections and learning packs. Free videos, step-by-step guides, activities and quizzes by level and subject for every year group in all subjects.

Oak National Academy

An online classroom with a free bank of FREE high-quality, sequenced video lessons and resources for parents to use as they wish. Choose your year group then find your relevant lesson in the schedule.

Oak National is now DATA-FREE for all on @VodafoneUK @EE @BT_uk @O2 @giffgaff @ThreeUK @SMARTYMobileUK @TescoMobile @SkyUK @VirginMedia @Plusnet

ParentKind

There are lots of fantastic learning resources available online that will help you support your children with their continued learning. Here are some that we like.

Free School on YouTube

FreeSchool is a safe and friendly place to expose children to famous art, classical music, children’s literature, and natural science in an age-appropriate and kid-accessible way.

White Rose Maths

The White Rose Maths Team are continuing to produce daily ‘home learning’ lessons for Years 1-9 to help children enjoy and master maths both in school and at home..

The Maths Factor

Created by Carol Vorderman, The Maths Factor has helped boost confidence in maths for pupils of many ages with its games and simple explanations. Join free for 21 days!

Twinkl Home Learning Hub

Each day you’ll find a new set of free, daily home learning activities – this includes crafts, lessons, games, puzzles and more, all designed by Twinkl’s qualified teachers and from our partners too!

Teachit

A collection of relevant and engaging resources that children can work on independently – deliberately picked so minimal input needed from parents and carers. Everyone can access all the PDF resources for free – you will need to register for a free membership.

English | Maths | Science | Languages | Geography | History | Primary

Brain Pop

Tons of animated videos on topics in maths, science and English

Learning by Questions

LbQ has hundreds of online classroom resources in Maths, English and Science that children can work through at their own pace while receiving marking and feedback as they go.

20 Teacher-Approved Educational YouTube Channels

Classroom media has come a long way since the days of filmstrip projectors! These days, you can find videos online about just about anything. Check out these YouTube channels for educational content that will enhance your lessons, whether you’re teaching online or in-person.

Oxford Owl

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Activities and learning resources for all ages from 0-11. Choose your child’s year group and find ideas specifically for their age.

CrickWeb

252 free educational interactive teaching resources and activities for Primary School students.

Off School

100s of videos created by teachers that demonstrate fun, quality activities that can be recreated at home plus links to great websites that support families across lots of topics and themes.

Twig Education 

Primary Resources (Tig Tag) and Secondary (Twig).

Bespoke curriculum videos and hands-on activities that you can do with limited resources. Sign up for 30 days for free.

Teacher’s Pet

Weekly ‘Home Learning Resource Packs’ for Primary ages – available to download completely FREE of charge plus lots more.

Scholastic

Scholastic Resource Bank have put together a range of FREE home learning packs for Early Years, Key Stage 1, Lower Key Stage 2 and Upper Key Stage 2 children to help parents and teachers prepare for all eventualities.

TES

All of these resources are completely free to download and use and include lessons, worksheets, workbooks and activities across a multitude of subject disciplines, ranging from EYFS to KS4 (GCSE).

UK Education Providers List

News story published 28 April 2020 by Foreign and Commonwealth office. Find free or discounted resources for students, schools, universities and training providers

Parents Guide to Free Homeschooling Materials for Kids

Created in America but shared with us here at DAISI during the last lockdown. This site gives hundreds of links for Home Schooling. Worth a Look..

Money-Saving Health and Fitness Tips for the Family

Created in America but shared with us here at DAISI by Callie Price. Keeping you and your family healthy is important to living a long and happy life, but it can sometimes be expensive. However, staying fit and healthy doesn’t have to break the bank. There are some simple, budget-friendly things you can do to achieve your wellness goals.

Barefoot

Learn problem solving skills that not only support the computing curriculum in primary school, but also play a part in other subjects, from maths to PE, and can even be applied in everyday life!

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Science Experiments to do at Home

Make something amazing and learn as you do it. Online Videos and guides.

Science Fun for Everyone

Science experiments you can do at home! Make a Volcano, Rainbow in a glass and more!! Above All – Have fun!

5 Fun Science experiments for the family

Why not combine fun and education and try out our 15 Fun Science experiments? My family really enjoyed these home science experiments and we’re sure you will too! Make your own Ice Cream, floating orb or even turn a balloon into a speaker!!

5 Fun Science experiments for the family

An amazing collection of science experiments and science fair projects that you can try with your kids and students at home or at school.


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The Royal Institution

ExpeRimental is a series of short films that make it fun, easy and cheap to do science at home with children aged 4 to 11. Lots of ideas for kids’ activities that will help you explore the world around you, question and experiment together. 

Fun AND Easy Science Experiments for Kids

The team at STEM Toy Expert have put their heads together to come up with the most awesome at-home science experiments for kids – arranged according to how much time they take: up to 1 hour, 1 to several hours, and long-term.

Fun Science Experiments

If you’re looking for some fun science experiments for kids then you’ve come to the right place. Check out our free experiments section, full of fascinating hands-on experiments that are a great way to enjoy the world of science.


I'll tell you How to Make GIANT Bubbles with your own homemade bubble wands and solution so that kids and adults alike can enjoy immeasurable outdoor fun.

The SEN Resources Blog

Craft Videos on YouTube – Make lava lamps, secret letters, puppets and marbled paint planets. Each video explains how and its updated with a new video everyday!

Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls

We love to share LEGO ideas and activities, and many of them include building instructions. You can also find many STEM ideas (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and plenty of learning activities.

Science Experiments around your Home

For many children, a science lesson is a chance to indulge in curiosity and conduct experiments. At home, you will not be restricted to an hour a day. Armed with a variety of essential household items, you can enjoy all manner of educational fun.


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Scratch

With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Tynker

Coding Made Easy – Everything needed to learn computer programming the fun way! Ages 5+

Cyber Games – Crack the code

Here are a selection of interactive resources and games that aim to introduce you to different aspects of Cyber Security.


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Reading Activities

Whether its a online book, literacy-themed quiz, or just your favourite characters – these links will help you encourage readers.

Free Digital Library

This is an amazing resource put together by Steph alittlebutalot!

Each picture is hyperlinked to a video on Youtube. All you need to do is download the PDFs, upload them to whatever online platform you are using et voila! Children should click on the book cover they want to hear an extract/reading of and it should take them to the correct Youtube video.

Book Trust

BookTrust transforms lives by getting children and families reading and is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. Each year we reach 3.9 million children across the UK with books, resources and support.

Book Trust HomeTime

Enjoy storytime with our free online books and videos, play games, win prizes, test your knowledge in our book-themed quizzes, or even learn how to draw some of your favourite characters.

Great Books Guide 2020

If you haven’t discovered the #GreatBooksGuide from Book Trust, it’s brilliant and packed full of fabulous reading recommendations for children.

Literacy Trust Family Zone

The Literacy Trust has developed a comprehensive web portal for parents, to support you during this time.

Birth to 4 | 5 to 8 | 9 to 12

You’ll also be able to access free reading and writing resources, audiobooks, videos, competitions and reading challenges.

The Reading Agency

We have pulled together some fantastic resources for Children and Young People, Adults and Teachers to support you during Lockdown.

Chatterbooks

Activity packs for children and resources for schools & libraries with ChatterBooks.

Harry Potter at Home

Welcome to the magical world of Harry Potter and Friends with the help of Wizarding World.com.

David Walliams

Welcome to the wierd and wonderful world of David Walliams. The best selling author has tons of books and videos to enjoy.. 

Julia Donaldson Live

Julia Donaldson, writer of The Gruffalo series, Stick Man and Zog, has announced a new weekly online broadcast featuring stories, songs and poems, broadcast on Facebook from her home every Thursday at 4pm.

Cressida Cowell

Read along with the Children’s Laureate and author of the “How to Train your Dragon” series

Tom Palmer

FREE reads – first chapters of my books here
FREE colouring here
FREE literacy resources here

Ten literacy activities for children not able to get into school

Oliver Jeffers

I will be reading one of my books every weekday, and talking about some of the things that went into making it. We are all at home, but none of us are alone.

Goodnight with Dolly Parton

Goodnight with Dolly is a 10-week special series of weekly videos featuring Dolly Parton reading select Imagination Library books.

Oxford Owl

Welcome to our free eBooks collection, developed for children aged 3–11 years old. If you’d like to learn more about how to support your child’s reading, visit our Reading pages.

Free Childrens Stories.com

Best selling children’s stories online for free. Watch the videos and find out more. READ MORE ABOUT US HERE!

Storyline Online

Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.

FUNBRAIN

FunBrain has lots of different activities but also links to books including Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Audible Audio Books

While schools are closed, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.

Researchify

Researchify is a simple curriculum search engine that only displays relevant and readable results.

Includes 6 books uploaded for free in word / pdf / audio book

CBeebies Bedtime Story

A different story read each night just before bedtime. 30 Episodes Available on iPlayer.

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Craft Activities

Getting crafty with your kids is a fantastic way to spend bonding time together and many craft activities have hidden cognitive benefits; it can help provide an outlet for their emotions as well as helping with their fine motor and dexterity skills.

CreativeBug

Creative Bug is a website designed to make people be more creative. Check out these amazing videos and start now..

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Orchard Toys Craft Ideas

Get creative with these fun craft ideas! There’s everything from cotton wool sheep to an out of this world kitchen roll rocket!

EasyPeasyandFun

We have a ton of engaging art and craft for kids to make and you’ll find ideas for all ages and for all occasions.

Craftspal

We have spent time searching for the best craft activities for kids such as Make a fluffy non-sticky slime, growing an egg using materials found at home, making a sunflower and more..

Zing Crafts

19 Easy Craft Ideas for Kids to Make at Home [Using Everyday Items] They’re all super simple so that absolutely anyone can create something brilliant!

5 minute Fun

Loads of ideas here all organised by theme, material or duration. Great fun for many days.

Happiness is Homemade

These 50+ quick and easy kids crafts can be made in under 30 minutes using items that you probably already have around the house! No special tools or skills are required, so Great fun for the entire family!

Left Brain Craft Brain

Try my 5 minute crafts and join me on my journey introducing kids to Engineered Craftiness because exploring the scientific method through art can make for the most fun.

The Best ideas for Kids

This is a community where we share mostly craft ideas for kids of all ages! We also create and share activities, recipes and other ideas for kids. Whether you’re a parent, caregiver or teacher, there is something for everyone here!

Tate Kids

Great ideas from the TATE museum. Painting, Building, Colouring and more..


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Baking Activities

Everyone likes to bake cakes and then eat them. Why not try some of these recipes and ideas that we have found on our searches..

Baking Mad

Nutella Mice, Hungry Caterpillar Cupcakes, Butterfly Cakes, Giant sharing cookie and more…

BBC Good Food

Traybakes, Sandwich cakes, doughnuts, muffins and more…

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Baking from the Book Trust

Nadiya Hussain’s Fudge Brownies, BumbleBear Biscuits, Gruffalo Cake and more…

DaisyBake

What to bake and cook during lockdown. Plus cook along with me on Facebook!!

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Recipe Cards from Orchard Toys

Banana Smoothies, Cupcakes, Family Pizza for 4, Biscuits and more..

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Recipes from The Best Ideas for Kids

Home made Ice Cream, Cake Pops, Homemade Gummy Bears and more…

Baking with Kids: Cookies Galore

Kids tend to love sweet treats – Get out the cookbook and whip up some sweet treats like recipes for chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and snickerdoodles.

World Book Day

Have you ever made Gruffalo Crumble? or a Monster Max Eyeball Cake?

5 minute Fun

Loads of ideas here all organised by theme, and duration. Great fun for many different occasions.

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Something Different from Left Brain Craft Brain

Wookie Shakes, Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies, Edible Water Balloons and more…

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Primary Quick Links

With thanks to @BlueBellHillPS

Click on the links below to be sent directly to the pages.

PE activities that can be completed at home..

Ideas for things to do when kids are bored..

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Secondary Quick Links

Click on the links below to be sent directly to the pages.

BBC Bitesize Daily: Key Stage 3 | GCSE Subjects

Oak National Academy: Choose Secondary for Daily Lessons

Teaching Resources from TES: Free Resources

Free 30 day Trial: Twig Education

Chatter Pack Long List: https://chatterpack.net/blogs/blog/resources-list-for-home-learning

Good Links on Here: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/recommended-resources-for-teachers-and-parents-home-schooling-during-covid-19/

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Get Outdoors!

Studies have shown that kids who spend more time outside might be happier and more relaxed. Here are some ideas and links to help you make the most of the great outdoors!!

Create or download a Scavenger Hunt: Scavenger hunts provide a wealth of opportunities for active fun. Many children, as parents could likely attest to, have a natural urge to explore – which is easily satiated by a good scavenger hunt.

Try this one by clicking here

22 Best Scavenger Hunt Ideas

Ideas to help you create your own


50 things to do before you’re 11¾

Get your kids closer to nature with the help of the National Trust. There’s plenty of outdoor activities to do all year round, from watching the sunset to creating some wild art. Many can be done at home and in your garden.

Outdoor Activities Collection

From paints bombs to leaf bracelets and DIY sprinklers, this list has it all!


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Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust

Here you will find everything you need to teach your children and connect with nature as a family including how to build a lego bird table!

The RSPCA

Build Bird Feeders and Hedgehog houses along with lots of other activities

Birding Hub

Build a BirdHouse and learn more about birds with Birdinghub.com


I'll tell you How to Make GIANT Bubbles with your own homemade bubble wands and solution so that kids and adults alike can enjoy immeasurable outdoor fun.

Continue Outdoor Learning at Home

The value of outdoor play and outdoor learning, getting out and about, and connecting to nature, is huge. Whether the learning is curriculum-based or just fun activities to engage a child, learning outside makes for happier and healthier minds.

60 Summer Outdoor Activities for Kids

To reduce the times you hear, “I’m bored,” you need to plan ahead. Check out these 60 outdoor activities and choose the ones that will keep your children smiling all summer long.  



31 Outdoor Activities for Kids

Studies have shown that kids who spend more time outside might be happier and more relaxed. Time outdoors can even improve short-term members, concentration and cognitive skills.

25 DIY Outdoor Activities for Kids

Build a kiddie cash wash to ride through on bikes. Make giant bubbles and walk on stilts. Loads of cool and exciting ideas!


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