The Screen-Free Week
Seven days. Twenty-eight things to do. Not a screen among them.
One activity for everybody, one for a younger child, one for a teenager, one for the grown-ups — and a question to ask at the table in the evening. Ten pages, free, no strings.
What is in it
- Day One — Notice. Five sounds, a colour hunt, one square foot of ground, three smells.
- Day Two — Make. The tallest tower you can manage, a paper plane that actually flies, a pinhole camera from a shoebox, something cooked without a recipe.
- Day Three — Outside. Two scavenger hunts, a bird count, and a tree you know well.
- Day Four — Play. The river crossing, an alphabet ladder, the sock drawer, three light switches.
- Day Five — Write It Down. The best meal you ever ate, an invented animal, a letter to your future self.
- Day Six — The Long One. An imaginary island, a house you would like to live in, your bedroom drawn to scale.
- Day Seven — Talk. A conversation you would like to have, and five things you believe.
Who it is for
Households with someone in them who says they are bored the moment the screens go away. It works from about seven upwards, and it works just as well for two adults with no children in the house at all — skip the pages that are not yours.
What it is not
It is not a detox, a cleanse, or a lecture about dopamine. The phone is not the enemy. The hour away from it is the gift, and this is simply a list of things worth doing with that hour.
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These twenty-eight activities are taken from The Screen-Free Adventure Book — eighty things to do without a device. Analog Society, Sydney.