Daily Activities

While our Lifelong Learning Programmes were closed we posted daily activities on our website, in line with our weekly theme; you can do them all at home, using resources that you should be able to find around the house. They’re all archived here for you to do whenever you like!

We also have free colouring pages, in line with our weekly theme, for you to download and print here.

Adventures in Poetry & Rhymes

Activities for the week:

Limericks, Nonsense poems, Rhyming poems, Nature poems, Sound poems, Rhythm poetry, Military chants – we’ll explore many types of poems and rhyme.

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Adventures at Purple Patch

Activities for the week:

While we’re busy carrying out a big evaluation project at Purple Patch we’ll be taking a 3 week break from posting our normal Purple Patch daily activities here on our website. In the meantime, check out some of these other wonderful activities!

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Adventures to Volcanoes

Activities for the week:

There are about 1,500 potentially active volcanoes worldwide, about 500 of these have erupted over the years.

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A sense of Adventure: Gameshows

Activities for the week:

In the USA the 29th January is National Puzzle Day, to celebrate we’re going to imagine we’re on Gameshows and Quiz Shows!

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Adventures in Black History

Activities for the week:

The 18th of January is Martin Luther King Day, celebrating the life and achievements of the influential American civil rights leader. He is most well-known for his campaigns to end racial segregation, and for racial equality in the United States.

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Adventurous News – This Week in History

Activities for the week:

This week was a very busy week in the past. In the news there was molasses, top hats, museum openings, lottery draws, batman, famous number ones, opera conducting, and Mickey Mouse!!

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Adventures in Kindness

Kindness is “contagious” – research shows that people are more likely to do kind acts when they see others being kind as well. Kindness can also create contagious feelings of joy. Let’s practice being kind to ourselves & others.

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Adventures to Lapland

Activities for the week:

Lapland is Finland’s northernmost region, it is an area where not many people live and is often covered in snow. Let’s take an adventure there!

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Adventures in sci-fi

Activities for the week:

This week we’re taking a trip in the Tardis to follow the adventures of Doctor Who.

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Adventures through an Underwater Museum

Activities for the week:

We’re going to take a journey under the surface of the sea to visit museums accessible only to divers and snorkelers, full of sculptures, sunken cities, shipwrecks and film props.

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Adventures Through a Museum

Activities for the week:

Adventures through a museum. We’re going to take a journey through different museums, uncovering artefacts as we go.

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New Theme: Adventure

Activities for the week:

New Theme. Learn about what our theme of ‘Adventure’ has in store for us this year.

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Daily activity 95: Nature & Creativity

Fact of the day:

Green, (the mixture of blue and yellow), can be seen everywhere in nature and in many different shades. The human eye sees the colour green better than any other colour.

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Daily activity 82: Katia Krafft

Fact of the day:

Katia Krafft was a daredevil who was fascinated by active volcanoes. She set out to study them, capturing their beauty with her camera.

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Daily activity 72: Advertisements

Fact of the day:

On June 30, 1898 Winton Motor Carriage Company published the first known automobile advert using the headline “dispense with a horse.”

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Daily activity 67: Dance

Fact of the day:

Dancing is a whole-body workout that’s fun. It’s good for your heart, it makes you stronger, and it can help with balance and coordination.

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Daily activity 66: Yoga

Fact of the day:

21st June is International Day of Yoga. Yoga is an ancient form of exercise that focuses on strength, flexibility and breathing.

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Daily activity 59: Coral Reefs

Fact of the day:

Coral reefs are living structures found underwater and are home to a diverse group of sea creatures. Coral Reefs are often called ‘Rainforests of the Sea’.

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Daily activity 55: World Environment Day

Fact of the day:

Every year on the 5th of June, people across the globe celebrate World Environment Day to raise environmental awareness. It’s an opportunity for us to think about how we can live greener lives.

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Daily activity 54: Trees

Fact of the day:

Trees act like the lungs of the earth. Trees help the planet breathe by turning carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) into clean, pure oxygen.

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Daily activity 51: Climate change and weather patterns

Fact of the day:

Climate change is the increase in the planet’s temperature due to human-made emissions of greenhouse gases. The increased temperature means that there are changes in the world’s weather patterns and more common extreme weather events.

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Daily activity 50: Yayoi Kusama

Fact of the day:

Yayoi Kusama is a 91 year old Japanese artist who is well-known for her repeating dot patterns. She is still making art and is Japan’s most prominent contemporary artist.

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Daily activity 47: Grace Darling

Fact of the day:

In 1838 Grace Darling risked her life to rescue shipwrecked mariners off the coast of Northumberland, she safely got all survivors back to shore.

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Daily activity 36: Amy Johnson

Fact of the day:

On 11th May 1930 Amy Johnson started on her attempted solo flight from England to Australia, some 10,000 miles away, in her ‘Gipsy Moth’ plane.

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Daily activity 30: Pirates of the Caribbean

Fact of the day:

The Pirates of the Caribbean film series is based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World. The series surrounds the adventures of the eccentric pirate, Captain Jack Sparrow.

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Daily activity 28: Treasure Island

Fact of the day:

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island in 1881. It is set in the days of sailing ships and pirates and tells of the adventures of Jim Hawkins and his search for the buried treasure of an evil pirate.

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Daily activity 27: Famous Pirates

Fact of the day:

Blackbeard’s real name was Edward Teach and he lived from 1680 – 1718. He was one of the most feared pirates from what has become known as ‘The Golden Age of Pirates’.

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Daily activity 26: Become a Pirate

Fact of the day:

The English word “pirate” comes from the Latin term “pirata” which means ‘sea robber’ and from the Greek word “peirates” which means ‘one who attacks ships’.

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Daily Activity 25: The BFG

Fact of the day:

The Big Friendly Giant is unlike other giants. He doesn’t like to eat people, and he captures dreams and keeps them in jars for people to enjoy while they were asleep.

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Daily Activity 24: The Twits

Fact of the day:

Roald Dahl’s book ‘The Twits’ was first published in 1980. It tells the tale of a pair of horrible twits and the tricks they like to play on each other.

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Daily Activity 23: James and the Giant Peach

Fact of the day:

In this book, James drops some magical crocodile tongues near a peach tree. This makes a peach grow to be as big as a house! James goes inside the peach and meets insects that are his size. James and the group travel in the peach across the ocean and in the sky from England to New York City.

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Daily Activity 21: Roald Dahl

Fact of the day:

Roald Dahl was a spy, an ace fighter pilot, a chocolate historian and a medical inventor. As a writer his extraordinary mission was to amaze, thrill and inspire.

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Daily Activity 18: Treetops

Fact of the day:

Some animals make their homes in trees. Wasps and birds live up high in nests, and squirrels live up high in dreys.

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Daily Activity 17: Riverbanks

Fact of the day:

The riverbank is home to birds, mammals and insects including Kingfishers, Frogs, Newts, Voles, Shrews, Dragonfly, Otters, Herons, Toads and Beavers.

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Daily Activity 16: Hedgerows

Fact of the day:

There are over 500,000 kilometres of hedgerow in Britain. That is a very large habitat for butterflies, mice and birds, spiders, and hedgehogs.

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Daily Activity 15: Spring Traditions

Fact of the day:

Across the world spring is seen as a time for new beginnings, happiness and growth. Many countries have their own unique spring traditions and celebrations.

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Daily Activity 12: Spring Poems

Fact of the day:

William Blake wrote ‘Songs of Innocence’ in 1789; several of the poems from this collection were written to welcome the Spring.

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Daily Activity 10: Orbiting

Fact of the day:

An orbit is a repeating path that one object in space takes around another. The moon orbits the earth, and the earth orbits the sun.

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Daily Activities 2: Batman

Fact of the day:

Batman is also known as the ‘Caped Crusader’, the ‘World’s Greatest Detective’, and the ‘Dark Knight’.

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