DAY 100 OF LOCKDOWN -SPECIAL!

We had a special day of activities today to 'celebrate' 100 days of being in lockdown. As Skype and Zoom have become such common features in people's lives during lockdown, we started the day with a Skype call to Grandma Jeanette and Grandad Harry...

The kids had a great time doing a scavenger hunt which Grandma Jeanette had organised

Finding shoes as quickly as they could

Zachary had a long document to read all about the events leading up to and during the lockdown, then he answered some questions

Jory chose the viruses to colour in, whilst Tahlia chose the rainbow

A typical lockdown colouring activity

A lockdown must is doing PE with Joe live - we have done every single PE with Joe workout since it began on the first day of lockdown (but we've never had a shoutout!)

Showing off his PE with Joe t-shirt whilst doing the exercises; the money raised (£500,000+) from the t-shirt sales went to the NHS

It wouldn't be lockdown without a rainbow walk!

Looking at the decorated breeze blocks again

You can't miss the various guidance posters

We suspect they will be opening the local playground soon - they have finally mowed the footlong grass!

Tahlia loves these flowers the most; Daddy thinks they look like liquorice alsorts

Some of her other favourites to photograph

Showing off their 'lockdown' t-shirts, which they painted during lockdown (related to Joseph's coat of many colours)

We Skyped Uncle Bar to wish him happy birthday today (although it was hard to make much conversation with so many of them talking at the same time!)

Lots of people have enjoyed doing quite a bit more baking during lockdown (including us). This meant it became hard to find baking essentials such as flour and yeast in the supermarkets. So, for lockdown day, we decided to make some rocky road, which doesn't use any flour.

Adding the essential ingredients

The finished rocky road

We spent three separate sessions looking through all of the lockdown blog posts on the TV, starting with day one; although we only reached Day 33!

They loved looking at photos of themselves and remembering what they've been doing

Trying out their new curly 'lockdown' straws

Zachary spent a while calculating the percentage of each of our lives we've spent in lockdown. For Mummy, this was a mere 0.8%, but for Ptolemy it was 8.32%. We even did it for our friend, baby Elizabeth, who is about 9 months old. She has spent almost 35% of her life in lockdown!

Next, as a way to demonstrate that 100 is a big number, we played a tombola game using numbered balls

Whenever they drew a number, Zachary would mark it off on the grid. If the number was in the 5 times table, they would win a smartie. We only managed to get through almost half of the numbers before we'd decided that was enough. We might play again tomorrow.

Lockdown has been associated with hoarding of various items, particularly toilet rolls. Since the hoarding saga has now passed, we thought it was time to do our own hoarding and see what we could build with our hoarded toilet rolls!

They each took a turn to build the best tower they could; here's Jory's.

Ptolemy's tower

And he knocked it down!

Tahlia's pyramid towers

Zachary went for the tallest

Daddy's cool pyramid

Mummy's tower wins on height

We did a supermarket role play in which you had to keep your social distance and avoid Daddy's 'distancing' pool noodles, whilst trying to gather your shopping

They all enjoyed having a turn with the pool noodle distancer

Dr Octopus wanted to flout social distancing rules!

We played a game called 'Open or Closed', in which we showed them photos of places and they had to say whether they were open or closed during lockdown

Daddy had made it come up with the sounds from the Family Fortunes machine whenever it said 'open' or 'closed'

Jory particularly loved the sounds

A photo of Butlins; sadly it was in the closed category (our family holiday this year is cancelled)