Learning That Brings Joy

Have fun collecting wild plants and making abstract art!

Step 1:
Spend time in the fresh air walking with your children and collecting different plants – flowers, grass, leaves.🌿🌾🌼

Step 2:
Take Bristol board and paper glue. ◻️

Step 3:
Make abstract art on paper board (with or without glue) using different kinds of plants you collected outdoors. 🙂

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Painting with spaghetti in 3 easy steps 😄:
Step 1 – make spaghetti brooms.
Step 2 – cook about ¼ of brooms’ length.
Step 3 – pick out your kids’ favorite colors and start painting together!

Full instruction you will find here:
https://www.funlittles.com/paint-with-spaghetti-brooms/

There are signs you can look for that indicate your child may have a higher than average IQ.
Highly intelligent children often exhibit some of the following traits:
- Excellent memory
- Early reading skills
- Curiosity
- Sense of humor
- Musical ability
- Sets high standards
- Talkative with adults

7 Sure Signs Your Child Has a High IQ - Learning Liftoff If your child shows some of these traits, he or she may have a high IQ. Learn why these behaviors can also indicate future success.

Here are some games that can help overcome laziness and do not require long preparation:

Pre-schooler chooses a toy that will be a cleaner – teddy bear, doll, bunny, puppy. With the paws of a pet, the child collects scattered toys and places them in a special basket.

Who is faster? Split in two teams, for example, dad and boys 👨‍👦‍👦compete against mom and girls 👩‍👧‍👧. The winning team will collect all their toys and put in a basket in the shortest time.⏱

The quiz. Give tasks to your child: for example, collect five cars, put three green toys in a box, put all the animals with round eyes on the sofa. Keep thinking until all the toys are in place.

We will show to your teddy bear how to arrange toys nicely between games (because he doesn’t know how to do it). The owner will help the teddy bear to pick up and arrange toys properly.

Room for the doll. The arrangement of the room will show the child how important it is to maintain cleanliness and order.

Counting rods can be excellent teaching tools for various learning activities that help to develop children's thinking.

👍You can help your child to learn, for example, the order of numbers, the concepts of shorter-longer, more-less, higher-lower. Along with fine motor skills games and exercises with these counting elements help develop in a pre-schooler:
a) intelligence
b) independence
c) imagination and creative thinking
d) attention
e) interest in research and understanding
f) the will to win
g) purposefulness
h) persistence
i) independence
j) ability to plan, control and evaluate own activities
k) concentration

Find the difference is a great exercise for training visual memory. 🙂
1. Select two identical pictures with a certain subject but differing each from other in some details.
2. Offer up to 5 differences for three-year-old child or 10 differences for older pre-schooler. For younger children the images should be large, without small details, as they are still learning how to concentrate on the subject.
3. Talk together about pictures and give hints if your child needs some help.

There are many wonderful outdoor activities you can share with your children and a nature trail is a perfect example.

Pick a walk in a national park, that is specified to be an easy trail and suitable conditions for children. Try to stick to shorter walks, your kids won’t tire as easily and will absorb much more in shorter patches of time. 🏞🐇🦜

When the weather allows, children should get as much fresh air as possible, and running around outdoors is a perfect way for your kids to learn more about the world around them. It will also help them to appreciate nature and learn to respect the environment.🦔🐿🐾🌳🌿☘️🌾

Rainy days for children who love outdoors would be sad days because they must spend their time inside the homes. Parents should always have something new for their children so that kids won’t get bored even if they are inside the house. Here are some fun activities for children during rainy days.

- Create your own story CDs. If your children enjoy reading stories, you can let your children create their own story CDs. You can have a recorder and recording an interesting story. You can give more thrill and excitement to the story if you would add more sound effects.

- If your kids are the adventurous type, you can create an indoor obstacle course for them. Indoor obstacle course would be a good idea to play even if outside the house. To make it more exciting, you can make tunnels where your kids can enter. Your children will surely enjoy the indoor obstacle course while it is raining outside.

How to build a tunnel cubby This video shows you step by step instructions for how to build a tunnel cubby. Learn more about cubbies, cubby houses and building a tunnel cubby at Kidspot...

Here are some guidelines for making diapering enjoyable, quality time, rich with learning experiences:
- Prepare ahead
- Observe and wait
- Communicate
- Explain what you are going to do
- Involve
Full explanation is here: https://rielocations.org/approach/diapering/

Helping families enjoy sharing food and the whole ritual of mealtime is just one of many topics covered during Parent Infant-Guidance Classes in Hollywood and Pasadena.

RIE | Parent-Infant Guidance Classes

Here are 50 cool ideas how to support your children fine motor development using kitchen tongs. 😃

50 Fun Ways to Play with Tongs - Mama OT