To support Children’s Mental Health Week 2021 we are posting daily activities including challenges and problems for you to solve at home. The problems we’ve chosen are all for fun and can be mastered by careful planning, lateral thinking or trial and error!
Have fun giving the activities a go with those you live with – watch out for each activity on our Social Media accounts including solutions to the problems and examples of how everyone gets on using #childrensmentalhealthweek
Our timetable of activities will be as follows:
| Day | AM | PM | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 1st | Problem Solving Activity | Wellbeing Activity | Solution to Problem Solving Activity |
| Tues 2nd | Problem Solving Activity | Wellbeing Activity | Solution to Problem Solving Activity |
| Weds 3rd | Problem Solving Activity | Wellbeing Activity | Solution to Problem Solving Activity |
| Thurs 4th | Problem Solving Activity | Wellbeing Activity | Solution to Problem Solving Activity |
| Fri 5th | Live Challenge for children in school or at home | Wellbeing Activity | <<< |
| Sat/Sun | Family Fun Challenge & Family Photo Walks | <<< | <<< |
If you’d like to try other problem solving activities created for children and their families, you might like to download some of the resources below:
Riddles
Wordles
Bronze Globe problem
Murder Mystery problem
For more activity ideas please visit Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week website here
These organisations have also created resources to help schools:
Twinkl
Mentally Healthy Schools
BBC Teach
Young Minds