Screen free play for families and practitioners
50 low-cost, fun things to do with children at home and in your local communities and helps to create a great home learning environment for children. 50 Things To Do activities and events connect you with the places you live and the experiences you can have. Play Can Change Lives
20+ areas across the UK
750,000+ children reached
Free for every family, everywhere
How 50 Things To Do works
50 Things To Do is a menu of low cost, screen free playful activities for families with young children. It's available as a local app, a website and printed resources, and most activities cost nothing.
There are two versions - 50 Things To Do Before You're Five, which focuses on play based activities to help families get ready for reception, and 50 Things To Do Beyond A Screen, which are accessible to children all the way to 11+ (and beyond)
Discover
Families and practitioners can browse 50 activities to do together, most of them at home or on your doorstep.
Play
Every 50 Things To Do activity is designed for fun and helps children and families build the skills and home learning environments needed for a great start in life.
Explore
Every local version points families to places, events and activities in their own area. Right on their doorsteps and most of them free.
Thrive
The activities are based on how young children learn and develop, making them valuable at home, in early years settings and beyond.
How will you use 50 Things To Do?
Families & Parents
Looking for screen-free, low-cost ideas to do with your children? Find out if there's a 50 Things To Do offer where you live and unlock the power of play.
Practitioners
Work with young children and families? Get free resources to use 50 Things To Do in your setting, whether that's Early Years, Health, Early Help or a Cultural Venue. All focused on creating a brilliant Home Learning Environment
Local Authorities & Partners
Want to bring 50 Things To Do to your area? Let's talk about a local offer built around your families, your priorities and creating the time to create great Home Learning Environments. We help over 20 authorities deliver the best start in life for children.
Resources to help practitioners and parents increase play and reduce screen time
Whether you're in a school, an Early Years setting, a Health team, a Childminding business or a Cultural Venue, our free resources help you build on the brilliant work you already do, share the 50 Things To Do approach with families and make the most of everyday opportunities for play.
Our resources, and the evidence informed approach of 50 Things To Do, helps to foster brilliant Home Learning Environments for your families.
A truly local offer, wherever you are
Every 50 Things To Do offer is shaped around its place and focused on creating evidence informed situations that help to create brilliant Home Learning Environments. 50 Things To Do now runs in more than 20 areas, bringing Early Years, Health, Education, Culture and Community partners together so families find play opportunities close to home, reduce isolation and connect with the communities in which they live.
For Local Authorities, it's a simple, low-cost way to deliver on Best Start in Life priorities and help more children reach their social, emotional and physical milestones through supportive home learning that is fun.
What drives us?
Play changes everything. We started at St Edmund's Nursery School in Bradford with one aim: to reduce inequalities so every child gets the best start in life. Today, local authorities across the UK commission 50 Things To Do to help families turn their homes and neighbourhoods into places to learn and thrive.