Activities
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Talk about Unusual Friendship with Young Children – with Book “Apple and Magnolia”
When you hear “apple and Magnolia”, would you think of a friendship? 🙄 🤪Maybe it’s a funny question because who would think of that? Hahaha. Well, it’s a title of a children book. It talks about a friendship between an apple tree and a Magnolia tree. No one believes their friendship except Britta. Britta is…
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Dream and Draw with Child – with Book “Door”
Do you want to be a little creative in your quality time with your child? If you are a creative person and you wish to share that characteristic with your little one, I suggest you to try the play that I’m gonna introduce today. First of all, you need this book. Book “Door” by JiHyeon…
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How to Survive the “Family Sick Week” with Simple Play
When you have a sick child in the house, your daily or weekly schedule changes. It gets harder when the sickness stays in the house for a long time and every member of the family starts to get sick. Winter can be a hard time because children get sick more often. If a sick week…
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Winter Mindful Time with Toddlers or Preschoolers – with Book “Ten Ways to Hear Snow”
Winter is the slow-downWinter is the search for selfWinter gives the silence we need to listenWinter goes gray so we can see our own colors —Terri Guillemets I’m glad that I found this book and I can introduce it to you this winter. Book “Ten Ways to Hear Snow” by Cathy Camper (Illustrated by Kenard…
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How to be Hopeful Again – for Toddlers and Preschoolers
If you try to explain the word “hope” to your toddler, it would be not easy. But if you read her/him a story about hope, your child will understand a little. With repetition of reading and listening to the story, the meaning of hope is going to be fully learned in her/his mind. We all…
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Mindful Smelling Play for the Holiday Time
Whether you are having a big family gathering or a small intimate dinner with only close people, what you want to prepare is a mindful mind. It’s a beautiful time, dazzling time but it can be a very busy time, too, with prepping food, cleaning house, buying gifts, wrapping gifts, writing cards etc. So it’s…
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Quality Time with Simple Craft – for Low Energy Day
It’s been a while to give you an independent play idea. If you were waiting for one, I have a new idea especially for December. We are going to use the book that we read last week. -> “If You Take a Mouse to the Movies” by Laura Numeroff Bring the book again and talk…
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A Calm Craft Time with Child in December – with Book “If You Take a Mouse to the Movies”
Are you excited for December? I am!😍 It’s the most wonderful and beautiful month of the year for me. I’m excited to talk about Christmas! If you celebrate Christmas, stay tuned as I would bring more Christmas-related play ideas throughout December. For the first week of December, we are starting with a quiet play. Book…
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You Can Be All Sorts of Things with Book “All Sorts”
Things that we can teach with book “All Sorts” by Pippa Goodhart. It’s a good book for toddlers and preschoolers.
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Bake Apple Muffins and Make Fall Memories with Your Child – with Book “Apple Farmer Annie”
It’s an apple season and I think we need to use apples in our play and lessons.😄 Whether you’ve visited an apple farm this year with your child or not, we can still talk about a lot of different things about apples. An easy way to start is using this book. Book “Apple Farmer Annie”…