Life skills

Handle with care – age adjust for your own kids and their manual dexterity and confidence. These are just ideas so this is a list or two to spark your own imagination.

In the Kitchen

• Teach your children how to handle a sharp knife to chop vegetables
• Can they open a can safely?
• Teach them how to make bread
• Can they make a cup of tea? Coffee? 
• Do they know how to cook at least one meal?
• Do they know what everything in the kitchen is called and what it is used for?

Emergencies and Safety

• Do they know how to phone the emergency services?
• Can they lock and unlock an outside door, your phone (for emergencies), or the toilet door?
• Can they wash their hands correctly?
• Do they know why we are isolating and what this means? Of course they do but worth checking

Simple DIY

• Teach your child to sew on a button and /or sew two pieces of material together neatly
• Can they use a screwdriver – Righty Tighty, Loosey Lefty? Do they know what common tools are: Screwdriver, saw, spanner, pliers, wire cutters, etc.?
• Can they change a plug?

Adults and older children

• Learn how to chop like a pro – Gordon Ramsey has an amazing video
• Perfect a signature dish and cook it for everyone – check out Jamie Oliver’s series on how to cook during this crisis to see swaps, hints and tweaks
• Cook a new curry? Everyone likes a new curry don't they?