today I have 46 different smart ideas for your kids who are stuck at home
right now some of these are simple some of them are complex but all of them are
for your children there is nothing like a battle between smart vacuums and toys
now you do have to keep your kids from actually putting their hands under these
things so you want to talk to them before you start this you want to think
about which kid but it is a lot of fun to set down a couple of smart vacuums or
just one within a guarded area and let kids go to town with their toys
something that you might be surprised by is how good kids are at setting up smart
home gear now there are an extra a couple of steps in every smart home installation process so this can
actually give them a lot of time working on something and you get extra points if
you like me and get your kids to film it with a small GoPro or a small cell phone
smartphone they can actually film the entire process, and they will have a ton
of fun walking through the application getting this all set up and learning how
it works not only that if you install it in a space that is theirs they're going
to enjoy that process even more and want to do more of it so this is a great way
to get them into an understanding of some of the more technical applications
that you and I work with on a daily basis how you're making it less bright
yeah bring it down there you go here it goes ready you take the second Hey
a great new product for an easy installation that kids can help with is
the Wyze lock now this is a great in simple project that you can do with your
kids upgrade a door lock in your home and again it's really really simple and
my kid was able to do a lot of this with me kids will absolutely love the Hue
Melodi application that you can use to synchronize your lights to music playing
in your smart home so you can start a bunch of different speakers or one
speaker set smartphone next to it and you can choose
the different colors the brightness and the different lights that you want to
have go throughout your house and synchronize to your music this is a lot
of fun and kids will really enjoy the dance party you put on for them next up
is an application called Hue Manic and there's a number of different effects
including fireplaces thunderstorms and a ton of other stuff now you might end up
going pro after you try this for a bit
rap for me Jackie Robinson we're New Jersey 42 his number was retired by the
stats just groove all human beings deserve our respect Hue brain games is
another application that you can sync with your Phillips hue devices and if
you guys remember from your childhood playing Simon well this is basically
Simon and there's actually three different game modes but I'm talking
about that one because I remember playing that access mars was put on by
NASA here this is just a website you can go to your child would learn all about
this but they can also actually explore the surface of Mars as well as the rover
the Curiosity rover itself so there's a ton to do here it's a great thing to set
them up on a computer and just have them go throughout Mars
flip a coin it's heads flip a coin flipping its chance roll a dice I rolled
a six sided die and got a 2. Help me wash my hands wash wash wash your hands for
40 seconds please we're having fun we're almost done now let's get you a towel
kids need to get physical and creating a routine with either Google or Amazon is
really easy to set up a number of lights change your fan which I'm using switch
bot to turn on and off my fan change the thermostat to a different temperature so
that you're not getting overheated start some music and give yourself a really
great workout with your child maybe you don't have a home gym but you can start
yoga time with either a routine or a simple command to play a specific video
and I'll leave that link down below but this video is a really great 30-minute
yoga routine for kids stories and fun and crossing our necks
I'm bringing your hands together at our hearts open animal workout
okay here's animal workout welcome to animal workout where you are no longer a
human but an animal stop those feet while the music plays
watch wwe.com and I mean I grew up with wrestling and there is some good stuff
that you can play for kids now obviously you want to curate this depending on the
age of your child but there is a lot of fun content and what's really great
about the website that this is on is you can actually chromecast so you can
actually cast to your other devices throughout your home so I cast to a TV
in my home once you have an iPhone or an iPad you can actually set up apple
homekit again connect to philips hue lights or a number of different systems
and you can give that to your child to let them just play with the different
lights you would be surprised how long they will do that for now you can also
create very simple automations where one light turning on would turn on something
else or one device would turn on something else you can see me doing that
but this is very easy for you to setup and in that moment a child will learn
about automation bark like a dog this is a dog another animal sound this is an
American Robin know I think it's very important for kids to read and I think a
little bit of structure in your day is great so go ahead and create a routine
that simply tells your child on their smart display or smart speaker that it
is time to pick up a book another great option is to read with them and there's
a number of different books that you can do this with what happens is as you're
reading these books and they are specific ones that you have to buy so
I'll leave some of the links down below but once you've bought though
then you can go ahead you're reading them and as you're reading them sound
effects are coming through your Google assistant either smart speaker or smart
display start read along with frozen frozen you
got it for this to work the microphone will be on as long as you're reading but
you can stop read along anytime here comes the music start reading when
you're ready the king and queen rushed both girls to the mystical trolls in the
mountains
read one of my audiobooks resuming the call of the wild again from its broom
asleep wakens the fear on strain read my book The Tale of Peter Rabbit the tailor
Pizza rabbits by basics plus it right by nice and young once the first time there
were four little rabbits on the scroll called the magic door is actually really
excellent for what is basically a choose your own adventure story book another
leads to the see the last is a spooky path into the dark forest would you like
to go to the mountains to the sea or to the dark forest the dark forest okay
follow me on a path of fallen leaves
having a smart home button in a smart home system like Samsung smartthings
gives you the opportunity to create scenes and then execute those scenes
with the push of a button so it is very simple to create automations that use a
button press to execute a number of things and kids absolutely love seeing
the activity action after they have pressed a button so go ahead create a
specialized routine you can do this with Amazon's voice assistant as well and any
of the echo buttons on in their system now flick also has some great buttons
that you can trigger things like speakers change lighting place sounds
and do a ton more there and when you hand kids a bunch of buttons to play
with you know it's going to get used and your smart home devices can handle this
kind of fun show me in a recipe for chocolate chip cookies cooking and
baking in the kitchen is so important and the Google smart displays are so
good for showing you different recipes and then walking you through those
recipes now you can also go and get an instant pot with Wi-Fi connectivity and
I can tell you that this is really easy cooking the only thing you got to watch
is when you are releasing the steam that's kind of the only real safety
critical moment in the whole process but you can have a lot of great things
cooked with kids and they can see great food come out of an instant pot in a
very easy way and being a guy myself I know I can create great food with my
child and he loves every moment of this when we're doing it together
open lemonade stand you should remember Amazon's a lemonade
stand game from a number of different platforms when you were a kid this is a
game that teaches just a little bit about economics lemonade at the moment
it's windy and cold with a few clouds the forecast is a fair chance it will be
warm without a cloud in sight the cost of a cup of lemonade is 15 cents how
many cups of lemonade do you want to make 10 you have three dollars and fifty
cents left of course you're going to want to call friends and family and
Google duo is easily the best tool for this you can actually as of this week
call up to 12 different people or you can use a smart display to make a voice
or a video call as well who farted
it wasn't me the Amazon future engineers in the coders program here is absolutely
amazing and I had my seven year old building code one component at a time on
a PC you can use a number of different platforms but this is an amazing
opportunity for you to start to teach your child a little bit about coding
without them thinking they're really doing it now it does take some reading
so you might have to help your child out but I can say the success of some of the
more complicated things was amazing to see open Amazon storytime
Amazon storytime is an absolutely amazing service you can go ahead and ask
for that and your kids will be able to pick from different themes of different
school lunch your mom something hot to make don't feel better when it's time to
go to bed you can set up a number of different devices in their smart bedroom
and create a whole routine for them to go to bed now I'm turning on all kinds
of different lighting I'm making them lower in terms of their brightness I'm
changing colors or I'm turning on something called the flow mode with my
Yi light now I also turn on a humidifier at this point for my child and we start
to play those audio books that we talked about so there's a ton you can do with
one little routine and you can simply have them trigger it or you can trigger
it for them start chompers chompers is a great skill
for getting kids through the bedtime teeth brushing routine so you can go
ahead and when they wake up turn this on and you can also turn it on when they go
to sleep holidays week and today we've got more hilarious holiday jokes to get
you giggling here's your first one what is a frog's favorite holiday leap day
open sleep superpower and if they need a little bit of help to go to sleep it
doesn't hurt to play sleep superpower this gives you a solid 10 minutes with
every one of their mission down on your back you get comfortable with your legs
flat on the bed and your arms by your sides now there are massive lists of
funny questions out there and I'm going to leave a couple of links down below to
them but here's just a few of the ones that you can go and ask your voice
assistance make me a sandwich okay you're a sandwich why did the chicken
cross the road there are millions of search results for that which is a lot
of chickens you'd think they'd carpool more cowbell sounds like you've got the
fever and the only prescription is more cowbell do you have feelings sometimes I
wonder if I'm actually feeling something or if it's all just programmed it's
confusing hey that's an emotion where do babies come from it has to do with birds
and bees and you see when two people are actually maybe a parent might know do
you have any pets I don't have any pets I used to have a few bugs but they kept
feeling squashed do you know the muffin man I've never met him but I do know his
sister Madame macaroon she's a little bit nutty but sweet who let the dogs out
hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo tell me a dinosaur joke what do you call a dinosaur who's the
life of the party dynamite tell me a space joke why was
the planet wearing suspenders because it didn't have an asteroid belt
speaking of why's their time lapse on their cameras is absolutely amazing and
you can see just a couple of examples all you have to have is a wise cam and a
nest ecard and you can see plants and things
like the Sun moving across the sky in a really fast time line these things are
amazing kids love this gonoodle is absolutely an amazing youtube channel
but they also have an application for your tablets now there is a ton of high
activity videos that get kids up and moving about toon tastic is a fantastic
application for kids to go and create their own short stories using simple
animations and simple characters BrainPOP jr is a fantastic application
as well with a ton of features but always a movie of the week for kids to
watch I came in second place mobi the collisions game can be brought up on any
web browser and it teaches children how to create atoms or what is within atoms
in their home a tour of the Great Wall of China is obviously something that is
amazing for people to go on physically but you can do it on the web as well on
the official site for the Great Wall of China
open math fact Amazon's math facts skill is a great one for just a little bit of
practice around mathematics what is 0 divided by 1 0 what is 60 + 58 to hard
again talk to Pikachu the Google home talked a Pikachu skill is one of my
child's favorites use Thunderbolt
it's my birthday tell me a story you can of course cast to any Google smart
display so get all those movie applications in but another thing that's
really great is to set up speaker pairs in stereo pairs either Google home or
Amazon in their home theater system and again this is something your children
can go through with you that is very easy in terms of a set up but creates a
lot of fun in terms of the sound experience
and this last thing is easily the hardest to do and that's why I saved it
for the last thing now your motion sensors that you have throughout your
home you could have echo flexes you could have Samsung smartthings motion
sensors you could have motion sensors from a
number of different platforms but what's really fun for kids is a spy game based
off of these motion sensors so you'll want to remove a bunch of these put them
into one room and then as they are triggered that's when the motion sensor
the camera or whatever you want to use has seen your spy your little spy and
this is going to take you some time to set up a couple of tips or tricks for
you to make this a little bit easier or a little bit harder depending on the age
of your child set up some barriers so that they can hide behind them and then
also angle the sensors a little bit away or towards the area depending on the
difficulty you want there are 46 different ideas in that video and we
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