Ideas – leisure time

Predšolskim otrokom lahko izdelate razne poligone po stanovanju. Uporabite kar imate doma – stole za plezanje čez, mizo za plezanje pod, blazine za kotaljenje, toaletni papir za slalom, razne trakove za skakanje (položite jih lahko na tla npr. v obliki ristanca), volno za oblikovanje pajkove mreže (ki jo prepletate med dvema stoloma), nogavice, ki jih oblikujete v žogo in lonec za metanje na koš….

Z otroki lahko spoznavate poklice – kar je tudi tema letošnjega Otroškega parlamenta. Spoznavajte poklice, ki so v tem obdobju še posebej pomembni. Otroci lahko gradijo iz raznih kock okolja v katerih se odvijajo te določeni poklici (bolnišnica, policijska postaja, gasilska postaja, trgovina, lekarna, pošta…).

Z najstniki se lahko odpravite na virtualni obisk muzejev, hkrati pa spoznate tudi mesto/državo, kjer se muzej nahaja. Na spletni strani so zbrani vsi večji muzeji in galerije, katere so na voljo da jih obiščete virtualno.

Iz različnih materialov lahko izdelate »korona strašilo« ki bo odganjal virus 😉 Lahko ga izdelate iz kartona, blaga, embalaže lahko pa tudi iz lego kock – naj bo le čimbolj strašen oz. jih izdelajte več, da bodo strašili v več prostorih vašega doma.

Puppet theatre – excellent performances for children and adolescents – the recommended age is added next to the description of every show.

Show for teenagers – Brainstorm

Shows for preschool children – House of Children

The Slovenian Youth Theatre – shows for older children

Pravljica – The Story of the Corona Dragon

Poizkusi – House of Experiments

Games – Free access to a speed variant of the multiplication tables and much more

Find colouring books or even print them if you have this option. Here is a link to a wonderful colouring book made by the Slovenian painter and illustrator Mojca Fo.

You can prepare a TREASURE HUNT for children who must use THEIR SENSES

Divide a sheet of paper into 4°parts and write down HEARING, SMELL, SIGHT, TOUCH in each part.
In the HEARING part, children should hear something quiet, something loud, something repetitive, something distant, a bird, an insect and a human voice.
In the SMELL part, children should smell something fragrant, something smelly, something sweet, something fresh and something stuffy.
For the SIGHT part, they should find something bright, something dark, something colourful, something big and something small.
And for the frame of TOUCH, they should feel something hard, something soft, something cold, something warm, something light and something heavy. Write down everything they find. You can play the activity outside or in nature. Play it during different times of the day. Entertainment guaranteed!

And finally, a little creative workshop for the upcoming holiday…

This week, I also have some Easter ideas I would like to share with you.

• Children love “egg hunting” – hide eggs around the apartment or in the garden, and have your children find them. The game can be made even more fun if you help your child find the eggs by singing a song – silently when they are far away from an egg, and loudly when they are nearing an egg.
• Easter Bingo – you can print the cards and grids or make your own. If you replace the numbers with characters, the game can also be played by younger children. If you play with younger children, make sure to be careful about the size of the objects (sweets, buttons etc.) that they will be putting on their grid.
• Decorate your apartment in anticipation of a spring atmosphere. Children really like to participate in creative activities if their product becomes a decoration in your home. The best creations are those where everyone can participate, such as a bunting: cut out triangular flags. Let children draw on them, paint them and glue them one next to another (with a couple of centimetres in-between) on a long string. Hang the string under the ceiling to simply create a festive atmosphere.

Finally, some “sports” ideas:

• Relay (children carry balls in a toilet paper roll from one point to another.)
• Throwing socks (wrapped in a ball) over paper plates with a hole in the middle which are tied to different heights with a string.
• Playing tennis with a balloon and a paper plate (on which we glue a wooden spoon). If the child is younger (from 1 to 3 years of age), tie the balloon to a string and hang it from the ceiling. The height of the balloon can be changed so that the child also rises on tiptoes.

If you need detailed explanations or if you have an idea you would like to share with me, please contact me at monika.erjavec.bizjak@zpmmoste.net.

We would include the following games on our list: Uno cards (children can play this game as early as at the age of three – with a little help, while the older children can spice it up a bit with additional, stricter rules).
Scrabble®, which is suitable for children when they can read and write. This can also be replaced by the game “Name, object, animal,…” (while I do not even know the actual name of the game, I have been playing it since childhood). All you need is your own sheet of paper and pen. Turn the sheet to the landscape position and divide it into 6-8°columns (depending on the number of categories you want). Possible categories: name, animal, object, country, city, body part, profession, cartoon/film, river/sea, etc. – change or add categories at will. Put the number of points into the last column. Choose a way to determine the letters of the alphabet – we choose a word and then fill in the categories according to the order of the letters in the word we chose. E.g. SUN (we start with the letter “S”); when the first person fills all the categories of words starting with this letter, they start counting down from 10. When they reach 0, it’s time to STOP. Everyone stops writing, and we count the points. If each player wrote a different word under a certain category, each player gets 10 points. If several players wrote the same word, each player gets 5 points. (If two players play and both write the word “spider” under “animal”, each player gets 5 points, and if one of them wrote “spider” and the other one wrote “squid”, they get 10 points each). If a player wrote nothing under a certain category, they get 0 points. Here is an example for the letter S, O, N etc.

Se veselim še dodatnih idej »Družabne igre, ki se jih ne naveličamo« 🙂.

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