Today, transform your kitchen into a restaurant and let your children be chefs today! Younger kids love mixing, dumping, & measuring. Older kids like following recipes, & managing staff (like you!). Some kids may want to create a menu & name the restaurant, others just want a small time creating something fun to eat. Enjoy […]
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Take dress up to the next level with your kids and have some costume fun: design your own costumes and make them yourself! This may be as simple as make up and construction paper or more advanced like sewing for older kids. Get everyone involved and see if there’s a family theme you can draw […]
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Take a break to release the tension of any day with movement. Kids love to move their bodies, and from the young to the old one of the most simple and profound movements we can make is by just breathing slowly in through nose and out of nose. Often it’s in this simple, automatic yet […]
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Have fun with role-playing and share some interesting and humorous discoveries in an everyday setting! At dinner tonight, have each person pretend to be another person in the family. You can switch the seating, and maybe even dressing up as each other. You can learn what your kids pick up about you and their siblings […]
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Take some extra time today and luxuriate in water play at bathtime! Try out some new bathtub finger paints – younger kids and older kids alike will enjoy helping with the recipe and bathing in a new way! Combine liquid soap with a roughly equivalent amount of cornstarch; mix until smooth. Pour into muffin […]
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This is a game of touch and reconnection to play when you greet your child after school or after being apart for a while. At the Monte Cassino School – early private education, we encourage parents to take part in developmental activities with their children whenever they have the time. This is a pretty simple […]
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Play researchers who are focused on natural play report what we already know: play is adaptive and beneficial in and of itself. Often, no additional inputs beyond time, encouragement and imagination are needed. So what can parents lend to this recipe? Time. Space. Encouragement. Your own imagination and curiosity about the world. Imaginative children tend […]
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