Day Thirteen: Learning fun for four-year-olds
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FOR PARENTS
Get Connected: When anger turns physical
Here are some practical strategies to teach your children how to disperse the energy of anger without harming others. Also, we explore three simple rules to help guide your household and some simple steps to keep your cool and defuse the situation when your child is in the red room!
FOR KIDS
ACTIVITY: Paper plate flying saucer
Combining craft with outside time is always a winner! This activity uses a single paper plate with whatever art materials you have to decorate with (if you’ve got crepe paper, some streamers flying out behind the soaring saucer looks very cool). Learning about how their paper plate flying saucer moves through the air gives them an insight into physics, and some exercise while they chase it through the yard!
ACTIVITY: Make your own post office
There is something really exciting to kids about sending and receiving mail. The educator in the post we’ve linked to has a pretty amazing setup, but you can scale it back a bit by making simple letterboxes out of shoeboxes (tissue boxes with the plastic slit on top also work!) and just drawing pictures to ‘send’ to each other. They love it! Also, stickers make good stamps.
Get Active: Musical chairs
Even if it’s just you and your kiddo, you can have heaps of fun playing musical chairs. Put some music on, make a rule that you have to do a silly walk, hop or jump around the chair to get them moving, and play the YouTube track in the link that has stops already programmed in so nobody has to DJ!
Storytime: Alison Lester reads aloud
Iconic Australian author and illustrator, Alison Lester, has helpfully uploaded a whole bunch of videos of her reading her famous books aloud, and they’re right there on her Facebook page for anyone to watch! With family faves like Are we there yet?, Magic Beach, Kissed by the Moon and When Frank was Four all available, Alison’s stories give us the magic we’re all needing right now.