Afternoon activities

Online drawing game

This virtual game is easy and great fun, invite those in and outside your bubble to guess your drawings!...

DIY Fabric Wardrobe Organiser

Get your sewing skills ready and have a go at making this wardrobe organiser – perfect for spring cleaning and reorganising your closets....

Stories from National Geographic

Subscribe for free and read or watch the amazing stories about humanity, nature, real world events and more....

DIY Vertical Herb Garden

It’s gardening season! Ever thought about growing your own herbs? Check out this tutorial on ow to create your own herb garden for small spaces....

Succulent Moss Box Project

Craft your own tiny garden out of your favourite succulents and create a mini sanctuary....

New Zealand History Biographies

Delve into the history of NZ and read about some of our most influential and famous icons that helped shape our country....

Pressed Flower Art

With spring ushering in beautiful blooms, it’s a good time to get crafty. Here’s how to preserve a flower’s natural beauty....

Pressed Flower Craft Ideas

Once you have pressed and dried your flowers check out lots of different ideas for using them. Everything from bookmarks to candles and more!...

Start a herb garden

Spring is a great time to plant your own herb garden, so you always have your own herbs on hand....

35 Fascinating Facts

Run out of things to read? Keep your mind busy with these 35 fascinating facts designed to wow you - you might even learn something new....

100 Best Movies on Disney Plus

Stream all your favourite stories with Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Nat Geo & Star....

Time For Spring Cleaning

Spring is on it’s way! A great time to Spring Clean our homes, checkout Molly-Maid’s checklist on how to clean your home from top to toe....

100 Most famous people & their biographies

Check out Biography Online’s list of 100 most famous people and read their biographies. From Marilyn Monroe to Vincent Van Gogh, Anne Frank and more...

Make Your Own Face Mask

Face coverings can help reduce the spread of COVID-19. Check out some of these funky designs and different material options to create your own mask....

Learn a Language

Bonjour! Guten tag! Kia Ora! The more you use your brain to learn new skills, the more your brain's functions work. Try a language lesson with Duo Lin...

Train Your Brain

Sign up for free with Mentem and have access to 24 awesome games, which are fun and will help improve your memory, attention and spatial orientation...

Growing edibles without seeds

We can’t get out to the garden centre right now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t take on a new gardening project. Check out this video which uses...

Origami Easter Eggs

If you don’t fancy painting real eggs for Easter, and chocolate’s not your thing, why not try making origami Easter eggs instead? There are so ...

Make a Gumboot Potplant

Make a gumboot pot plant If you have spare gumboot or similar vessel laying around, you could repurpose it into a cute gumboot pot plant. Thanks to Ki...

20 easy-to-make craft ideas

We found a brilliant YouTube channel full of cheap and easy crafts and hacks to help recycle and upcycle every day household items. This video contain...

Pencil drawing tutorial

Undertake a pretty pencil sketch with this tutorial. Learn how to create a beach, draw the sea, draw clouds and draw palm trees, in this simple pencil...

Perspective sketch tutorial

To take part in this afternoon's art tutorial, all you'll need is a pencil and paper. The artist demonstrates how to draw one point perspective, creat...

Origami craft: folding paper fish

To take part in this afternoon's activity, all you'll need is a square piece of paper. You can cut down a standard A4 to square in order to take part....

Have a go at line dancing

Dancing can help you to stay in shape, lower stress and raise levels of your happy hormones. Plus it's one of the most fun ways to work out. Check out...

DIY Foot Spa Treatment

We have collected three great recipes for making a homemade foot soak, made from ingredients you may have already around the house. Click this link fo...

Healthy Brunch ideas

Treat yourself to a lie in, followed by a delicious treat with our Mother's Day brunch recipe. Have you tried a breakfast pot? They look amazing and a...

DIY garden ideas

Check out these five minute crafts including an automatic watering system using a recycled plastic bottle. Plus a whole host of other awesome DIY idea...

DIY Sleep Mask

Domestic Goddess Martha Stewart's website has a whole host of great projects, recipes and crafts. We love her simple sleep mask design, plus there's a...

DIY Father’s Day Card

Get crafty this Father’s Day with this fun and stylish card using instructions created by Spotlight. A great lockdown option to spoil Dad....