If you’re a parent or the carer of children, our thoughts are with you.

Why? Because amid COVID-19 isolation news, schools closing in some states, and now school holidays, you are the ones faced with a new normal that involves entertaining kids in isolation all day, every day. Or the even more difficult task of entertaining said kids while also working from home.

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It’s a daunting idea – just thinking about it makes you laugh and cry and want to stay under the doona until it’s all over.

Thankfully, we’re here to help with great ideas. Well, we’re here to surfaceother people’sgreat ideas.

Like formerCosmopolitanBeauty Director andCosmo BrideEditor, Alexis Teasdale, who has made a series of epic kids activity sheets you can download and print off for free from her Lady Startup website, The Festive Co. Not only do they look bloody cute, but they will keep kids entertained indoors and outdoors for hours.

Then, there’s the at-home school schedules that will give you a laugh.Mamamia’sHead of Content and podcast host Holly Wainwright posted her family’s first efforts of home schooling, dubbed ‘crap home school’, on Instagram.

Anyone else's at-home schedules look like this? Image: Instagram/Holly Wainwright.

Another mum shared her version on Facebook, which includes tasks like 'PE - run outside to put the rubbish and recycles out' and 'Science - how Fairy Liquid removes grease from pans'.

Comedian Dave Hughes also shared some of his family's education and fitness schedules, which have been drawn up by his eight-year-old daughter.