Get active by designing a 15-minute workout routine, protect your brain health by creating a brain-boosting schedule full of activities such as healthy eating, mindfulness and social interaction, and create an interactive activity to promote health awareness.

Creative writing

Practice your journalism skills by reporting on an extreme weather event or an example of misinformation, and write spooky stories inspired by ruined buildings.

Creative and expressive arts

Create your own TikTok-style videos to educate and inspire people about the brain, curate a visual arts exhibition to raise awareness of an environmental or social issue, analyse artwork to examine how your own personal experiences influence what you see, and explore the power of music and dance for creating connection and community. Build a 3D model of ocean currents, use objects found around the house to construct a model of a protein,  and draw a cartoon strip to summarise how proteins support cell structures.

Games and gaming

Play computer games with the eyes of a software developer, design your own educational game about African elites, take part in fun debates about light-hearted topics (are dogs better than cats?!), and play a game to explore the tradeoffs between cost and efficiency with heat pumps.

Languages

Practice your foreign language skills and draw your own language portrait.

Find last year’s collection of summer holiday activities at futurumcareers.com/summer-holiday-activities-for-teens

For more free educational activities that can be done at home, covering topics from economics to Earth science, history to healthcare, visit futurumcareers.com/articles.