The Lockdown Lowdown II

Keeping busy during Coronavirus

Life's full of surprises. Sometimes they're good surprises, like when you wake up on Christmas morning and race out to the tree to see whether Santa's been. But sometimes they're not so good surprises, like suddenly going into lockdown again.

We had to go through this all last year - twice! William and I shared a bedroom while Mum and Dad turned William's room into an office. It was fun for a while, but like all not so good surprises, you very soon want things to go back to normal.

But unfortunately, Coronavirus is back and that means we're back in lockdown. No shared bedrooms this time, but it does mean a repeat of doing schoolwork online and trying to keep things fun.

So here's some creative examples of how we've been keeping busy. One of William's school tasks was turning rubbish from around the house into something cool, and you can see what we came up with on the left above - a cool robot!

Because it's still winter, the weather hasn't been that great, and we can't always go outside to play. So Mum and Dad turned our lounge into an awesome fort, with a couch, chairs and tons of blankets turned into the walls of our mighty fortress. Well, it was mighty on the outside and soft and warm on the inside, after we moved in a bunch of our cuddly toys as well.

William and me are always up for a baking challenge. A lot of the time "baking" actually means "doing one small thing and then hanging around to lick the bowl and mixer". But William did seem to be helping Mum out with making some shortbread biscuits above - and I was right there afterwards to help eat them.

Other school activities had us going outside for some creative activities, like the one on the right above where Mum and William combined a bunch of leaves from the garden to make a shape. Can you guess what it is?