If you’re looking for ways to teach your child patience and perseverance in a fun way without additional tools, here’s a suggestion:
Try Hot & Cold!
Grab your child’s favourite toy (or any small object) and hide it inside a room. For a younger child, bring him or her inside the room and hold out their hand. As they move closer to the hiding place of the object, shout out “warm”, “warmer” or “hot!” The farther they are from the object’s hiding place, the “colder” it is. Keep going until they manage to find their favourite toy.
For an older child, you may start in a different room to make it a little more difficult to locate the object. If your child seems frustrated, it’s okay to give a little guidance and hold their hand for a little clue. This way, your child can also learn that just because you can’t see it – doesn’t mean it’s not there. They will also feel a sense of accomplishment once the “mission” is complete.
Here’s a really fun activity for your child (and you) to try out!
All you need is playdough, a straw, and a marble (can be substituted with ping pong ball).
First, build a simple track for your child with some elongated playdough.
After the first demonstration, encourage them to add on to the track and build a maze instead!
With the complete maze, ask your child to move the ball through the maze with the straw.
Making a marble race instead? Don’t forget to keep the competition friendly for some quality family fun!
Try this sensorial Montessori-At-Home activity that builds on your child’s memory and language skills while bringing a small part of winter. The goal is for your child to find the letters in the snow!
You will need:
1. Letter board (same size as clear tray)
2. Clear tray
3. Snowballs or pompoms (optional)
4. A brush
5. Salt
First step is to make the letter board. Have your child sing the ABCs to you as you randomly draw the letters across a piece of paper.
Next, place the letter board under the clear tray and fill the tray with salt (substitute with other kitchen items like sugar or powder).
All your child has to do is find each letter by dusting the “snow” with their trusty “snow shovel”
Have fun!
Fond of the sea? Take your little one on a fishing trip at home! This activity aims to build a child’s coordination skills as they attempt to balance the hovering magnet over the paper clip, as well as understanding of zoology! Build their curiosity in both science and nature in this simple coordination game!
Prepare a piece of stick, some string, a magnet, a piece of paper, a hole puncher and some paper clips!
How to:
1. Prepare the fishes! Draw your “nemo’s” and “dory’s” and cut them out.
2. Punch a hole through the tip or the mouth and loop the paper clip through.
3. For our fishing rod, tie one end of the string to the stick and the other end to the magnet.
You are all set to fish!
For a waterproof version, you may use hard pieces of plastic as fish!
Have fun 🙂
Since the start of the quarantine period on the 18th March 2020, we have been doing our part by staying home and staying safe. But there are still doctors, nurses, healthcare teams, janitors, police officers, delivery drivers, grocery store clerks, gas station attendants, warehouse workers, pharmacists and other essential team members who are out there trying to curb the disease and keep the rest of us safe!
To say thank you, we are getting busy at home and want to create a small token of appreciation for those in the frontlines. We’d like to invite you to join in as well!
Show You Care
Join us by following the simple 4-step process by getting creative, submitting your masterpiece, sharing with us (if you want), and finally, anticipating the final video!
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This #ThankYouMYHeroes campaign is open to families of The children’s house and members of the public.
Please send us a minimum of 5 photos, consisting of the images of your masterpiece and family photos with the masterpiece by the 3rd of May 2020. However, only a maximum of 2 photos will be included in the final video.
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At the early stage of childhood, children rely on their senses to learn about the world.
If you haven’t heard yet, sensory baskets are a great tool to introduce to your child! Aside from developmental benefits, you can also build the basket together and spend a bit more time as a family.
Click to read more on some DIY materials that you could make and create your own sensory basket for toddlers at home.
With some colourful paint and recycled bottles, you are good to go! Normal bottles with a 5-point bottom is great to be used as they instantly give you ”petal” shapes! However, you can also use the rounded bottoms to give your flowers a “ring”
Have some endless stamping fun with your little ones in these easy steps!
Lay out different coloured paint on a paper plate and get stamping!
Use fingers to create the pistils (centre of the flower) and leaves.
Use differently shaped bottle bottoms for different patterns.
For children aged 5 to 6 years old, parents could set the level higher through an alphabet memory game to boost their memory.
Here are the steps:
1. Prepare 52 empty cards.
2. Have your children to write down each alphabet on each card, both uppercase and lowercase.
3. Shuffle the cards and lay them out face down in a grid pattern.
4. Ask your children to randomly pick 2 cards and see if they match.
5. If the cards match, keep it aside but put the cards face down again if it doesn’t.
6. The game goes on until all 26 alphabets are matched.
* The game might take a while to finish, so your child can also learn patience during this activity. Don’t forget that everyone deserves a nice reward every now and then!
Another Montessori-At-Home activity, the alphabet bingo game is fun for children aged 2.5 to 4 years old who are on the road to recognising the 26 letters. All you need to do is to print out the bingo cards below or create your own. Pick a letter and let your children search for it. The first person with 2 connecting lines wins!
