Helping kids with covid?

[Carrie12345]

My 6yo niece has covid, and her 3yo brother now has a fever, so…

I want to send them something to enjoy through their holiday isolation BUT shipping is obviously in crunch mode right now (though they’ll be stuck longer) and they have little to no space for “stuff”. It’s 3 people in an efficiency unit.

I sent them a kiwi crate subscription a a Christmas gift, but it’s the food one and food might not be their jam right now, yk?  My sister has a grocery delivery scheduled, so regular food shouldn’t be an issue.

She sent some nice pastime stuff to my dd when she was covid isolated, but I’m blanking for real little ones in close quarters.

[City Mouse]

This is the time I would send movies or a subscription to a streaming service. 

[happi duck]

17 minutes ago, City Mouse said:

This is the time I would send movies or a subscription to a streaming service. 

This is a great idea!

My other thought is daily cute little animated e-cards they could watch.  

 

[Katy]

There’s still plenty of gingerbread decorating kits at the local Walmart & Target stores near me. 

[BusyMom5]

Do they have Disney Plus?  If they don't,  and they do have reliable internet access, I'd give them a Subscription to D+

[Spryte]

Movies, books to read with them, some age appropriate jigsaw puzzles? A little stuffie? Not sure this would work, but some kids like baths when sick — what about bath fizzies or crayons? 

I hope they feel better soon!

In warmer months, we did bubbles and other items to get them using their lungs post-sickness. Might be too cold for that now.

[Faith-manor]

When my niece in law, an EKG tech, got covid (pre vax and during Beta variant) and was home with young kids, we gave her a Netflix streaming subscription (she didn't have any streaming prior to that) plus some easy kits for the kids that they would likely be able to accomplish on their own, and play dough, etc. Kiwi Crate often has some steps that are.complicated, and some instructions require a higher than 4th grade reading level. We wanted to make sure they could do it independently. I think we included some Lego village, and we sent a bunch of "as healthy as we could find" frozen meals because the oldest was capable of tossing a frozen chicken/broccoli Alfredo into the oven. Niece was pretty sick. Like bad, bad, bad influenza, but oxygen says remained good so she was never hospitalized. Nephew had been sent out of state to work for a month for employer, training new employees, and his boss refused to send him back home so we were pretty worried. The children did well between streaming and the kits. One other thing I did was I picked a chapter book set and every afternoon they went to the computer which she had set up for Facebook calls, and I read to them. We made it through several Bunnicula books which they thought were hilarious.

[KSera]

Sticker books or other activity books? Melissa and Doug makes some nice large pad ones with scenes to stick the stickers on. Those water activated books might entertain them as well—Water Wow or similar. A consumable activity book might be best with space constraints, though.