For Launceston's Adam and Jess Maloney, they decided to begin homeschooling their children - Uma, 9, Fleur, 5, and Ottilie, 2 - about eight weeks before the crisis began.

At first, Mr Maloney said they stuck to a schedule and wrote detailed notes at the end of each day about what they had achieved.

But after a while, they learned to not be too hard on themselves.

They have embraced "interest-based" learning: furthering their children's education by stealth in engaging them in activities they already enjoy.

"I've definitely learned to relax a bit," he said.

"Jess and I were getting overloaded, and we just got to a point where we realised we can't always be in teacher mode. And we're big believers that you learn way more if you're interested in something; if you're enjoying it."

Sunday is supposed to be a day off. But since they adopted this approach, he said, most of the time on Sunday the three children just want to keep doing the same activities anyway.

"Initially we were really pedantic about writing a daily journal about everything we did - about an A4 page each day - and that was too much," he said.

"Now we just write a few days ahead what we want to get done on each day, and then at the end of the day just write dot points on what the girls did.

"We try and do mostly interest-based stuff with them - except math and English. You have to be a bit more strict with making them do that. But we still try and do it in a way that's fun. If something isn't working for them, we try something else.

"So, Uma was doing Irish dancing, and Fleur didn't really like that so we didn't keep making her do it. They're both really enjoying jujitsu. We do lots of craft stuff. Jess is doing a lot of contemporary drawing so that the kids get interested and want to try it out."

They also read to the children every night, and are learning songs together - the latest family tune is Thelma Plum's Better in Blak. Life skills are prioritised, like being able to use a washing machine and doing the dishes.

They have morning and evening routines, and they said the day is always better when planned. But they are not too hard on themselves if the plan goes awry, or out of order, or needs to be picked up again the next day.

"We write a list of what we want to do that day but we don't go: Right, at nine o'clock we're going to do this for half an hour and at 9.30 they can have a tea break for ten minutes, and this and that," he said. "There's a checklist, but we're pretty flexible."

Two advocates for using fun activities like craft while at home with your children are Sara Ferrington and Dan Kershaw, the founders of Beaconsfield art classes Rascal Robot.

Sara and Dan only started Rascal Robot two months before they had to stop leading face-to-face classes. But they have pivoted quickly into more creative approaches.

They are now Remote Robot: sending out craft packs that children can do at home.

Since the switch they have been "swamped" with subscribers to the service, Ms Ferrington said.

"It's sort of a start point, so once kids have finished doing the basic project, there's a sheet that I put in that shows how they can take it further with stuff they have at home," she said.

The first pack was filled with origami supplies and instructions, along with a completed zine and materials for children to make their own.

The idea is to provide a resource for parents who understand the basics of teaching maths and science, but aren't so creatively-minded themselves.

"Every adult I know who works and has school-aged children is trying to juggle either working from home or dealing with losing their job, with trying to homeschool their kids," Ms Ferrington said.

"Everyone is having all that anxiety around what's going on and what you should be doing, and being scared about the whole thing ... trying to come up with creative ideas to entertain your kids among all of that? Oh my god.

"So this gives kids something to do - for a little while - so parents can focus on doing their job. And it also gives you something you can all do together.

"It's kind of a forced explosion of our territory - but that's cool. It's something we can maybe keep doing even after things go back to normal - whatever that's going to be."

They will also be uploading videos on their Facebook page with instructions and fun ideas.

Other resources are available through schools, and the Tasmanian Department of Education has a Learning At Home website with activities for children of different ages.

The Department's top tips for homeschooling are to establish a specific learning space within the home; stick to a routine; look for opportunities to draw on your child's interests and strengths; and to ways to include tasks to help around the home as well as play and relaxation time.

Jess and Adam Maloney are reading John Holt, the founding father of the homeschooling movement. He wrote several books about what has come to be called the "unschooling" approach - the belief that children are naturally interested in learning, which should be nurtured rather than dampened with rigidity.

Mr Maloney said besides that, the best resources they had found were simply Kmart and Google: Kmart for workbooks and fun tomes like animal encyclopedias; Google for investigating in-depth any question that happened to be relevant at a particular moment.

They are also members of homeschooling groups on Facebook, and use the online learning program Reading Eggs - which teaches maths and English via "sounds and pretty pictures".

His number one piece of advice is "look for teachable moments".

"You know, the kids might go, 'why do we have to shower every day?'" he said.

"I'll say, 'Here's why I think you should shower every day, but let's jump on YouTube and find a science channel on why you have to shower every day and put that on.'

"You don't have to be an expert in everything, it's more being a facilitator.

"You can have a loose plan for what you want to do - but they're kids."