Arts, Crafts and Healthy Hearts

Keeping Busy During Coronavirus

The days sure can be long and boring when you're stuck at home. We can't visit any people, can't go any new places, can't even get any new books to read from the library. But keeping busy keeps the crazy away, so here's what we've been up to recently.

Exercising is fine as long as we keep our distance from people, so we've been out for beach walks and bike rides. Other times we just had to entertain ourselves at home, like we did with creating this daisy chain (or should that be 'Bailey chain'?). Though the look on Bailey's face seems to say "Take this stupid thing off me."

But it hasn't all been fun and games, because in between we've had to do our schoolwork. Mum and Dad kept us pretty busy focusing on getting through all our tasks each week. And there were a lot of tasks to do.

Here's a couple of examples of my artwork. The one on the left is based on one of those weird artists who draw funny-shaped eyes and noses coming out the side of your face. On the right is a drawing I did when we had to do something about a dragon that helped people. This dragon cast a spell which created the first human!

And from those great pieces of artwork to a couple of William's scribbles. One of the weeks we were in lockdown was Maori Language Week, so William's drawn some things about what his mountain and river are, which city and school are his. At the bottom is his Year Zero teacher, Mrs Frost.

He told me the drawing on the right is a house coming alive at night, which actually isn't too bad. The stars look good. Not sure what the rumpled pink thing in the middle is though; maybe the garage door.

So we've been exercising our bodies and our minds as much as we can, but I'm crossing all my fingers that this lockdown is finished soon!