With schools closed for the foreseeable future, parents have been forced to come up with new ways to keep children entertained in the house while following lockdown guidelines.

One single parent is taking it to the extreme by creating an amusement park in the living room

The playful mum thought up a simple way to give her daughter an adrenaline rush indoors using a humble washing basket.

In a video shared on Facebook, the young girl could be seen, and heard, having the time of her life as her mother, Theresa Dawson, 30, used a washing basket as a makeshift roller coaster while they were cooped up inside their family home.

The doting mum from Workington said: “Finding thing to do is really hard, but I just keep thinking about things I would have done when I was small and that’s what we need to do.

“It’s very important to do things like this, its great fun and you get to do it together.

“It’s a real struggle I’m on my own just me and Lucy, I’m trying to protect her from what is happening outside I don’t want her to worry or get upset.

“It just a case of good old fashioned fun.”

Trying to shield her daughter from the outside world and stop her worrying Miss Dawson has come up with a novel way of ding school work she said: “ I don’t want it to feel like a punishment, she is at home which is different to being at school.

“We play teachers when we do her school work and make it into a game. It works so much better we both take turns. I think its the best way to teach children through play.”

Lucy will be celebrating her eighth birthday in isolation and her mum is now trying to think up fun ways they can celebrate, she added: “I think we will start building dens and things like that. Lucy is just such a kind-hearted girl always trying to do things for others. She has decorated the drive for the NHS, drawn rainbow pictures and has even made welfare packs.”