Would you like your child to learn while playing? Would you feel happy when your child says learning is fun?
It is possible when your child understands learning is fun!
Handling your child during the summer holidays, Christmas holidays, or Lock downtime will not be challenging if you understand what makes them happier. Kids always love to be active; curious about things; they love to play different games every time. Avoiding books and running behind the pets make them happier; helping mom in the kitchen is more interesting than building blocks.
If you make your child understand learning is fun, they will never run away from books. That is the rule which nowadays the school follows.
Below are the Seven ways to make your child learn while playing.
1. Traditional learning
Play those games which you would have played when you were kids.
Alu Guli Mane
Like Alu Guli Mane, Chouka baara, which makes them interested. Kids will improve their counting skills and the skill of thinking before moving any steps.
2. Pot painting & Planting
Let the beautiful hands get more beauty: allow kids to paint small pots, Diya, birds feathers, broken ceramic glasses, decorating the mirror of used compact boxes. Teach them to plant their favorite vegetables, during this explains the importance of the tree, forest & nature.
Let them get dirty, later involve them in cleaning, but let them have it completely when having fun.
3. Crafting is Rafting
Allow them to design the pillow cover, curtains, napkins, dress, socks, hats, etc.Let them choose the color; don’t kill their creativity by suggesting them.
Pencil stand using waste bottles.
Do not expect perfection in their work. Enjoyment and fun should be the only motive.
4. Cooking
Teach kids to cook some snacks without using a knife and fire like burgers, Raw sandwiches, sprouts salad, vegetable salad. Then, please give them the task of preparing something different salad for their siblings or grannies.
Raw veg sandwich
This activity brings a strong bonding between them.
5. Topic to present
Prepare kids for tiny topics like the butterfly’s life cycle, how does rainbow forms, etc.
Help them make bullet points and allow kids to draw regarding the topic they are interested in and present in front of family members.
They will have real fun in preparing their first presentation.
Please do watch the video for your reference.
The life cycle of Butterfly and How does the rainbow form.
6. Bonus Tips -1
Make kids prepare their own schedule sheets, which will list what they do from morning until they go to bed. Let the schedule sheet involve helping mom cook, watch their favorite cartoon channels, Meditation, listening/reading small stories that have moral in them at the end of the story, and writing a handwriting page every day.
Schedule sheet
The schedule sheet should contain fun and learning.
7. Bonus Tips-2
Prepare a “Star Chart” to appreciate kids on their work.
Appreciation and reward are very important to keep them happy. Keep rewarding them by sharing a star, prepare their favorite dish once they earn 10 stars.
Star Chart
Deduct the stars if they misbehave, break the rules, dis-obey elders, etc.
Conclusion
Keeping the creativity alive in kids is very important, don’t force them to study all the time, nor keep them busy on mobile / TV since you want them not to disturb you. By doing this, you will be killing your own kid’s creativity and getting used to not being physically active.
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