Ideas for video calls:
- Catch up over meal times – have a virtual breakfast, lunch or dinner together
- Sing one song a day together – work your way through a favourite album or playlist
- Dance or make up your own fitness workout that you can both do, such as chair exercises
- Buy two of an item (such as bubble mix) and send them one. Over the video call, blow bubbles together
- Read them a favourite story, or make up stories together
- If a live call is hard, try recording short videos or sound recordings and sending them back and forth to each other
Ideas of small things to send in the post:
- Postcard with a word or picture on it that makes them laugh
- Favourite printed photograph of the two (or three or four…) of you as siblings
- An item of clothing that might bring comfort, such as a scarf that smells like you
- Wrap up a favourite bar of chocolate
- A sensory item, like soft scented hand cream
If you’re both able to, here are some other ideas of free things to do online together:
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