Here we go with May coming up around the
corner, this Friday!
Mayday traditionally is a give flowers in a basket to
people day so why not plan to do something for a neighbor such as this?
Cut flowers from the yard or make paper flowers and put
them together with a ribbon or string. If you have a vase sure go ahead and use
that but otherwise have your kids put them in Christmas wrapping turned inside
out like a bouquet from a flower store.
Have youngers draw flowers and place a note with the
bouquet so that the recipients will know what they are about. Simply put “Happy
May Day” is good enough! If you choose
to write a note to go with it that is great too! Make it encouraging and add a
scripture if you want to share God’s love with them!
Paper flowers can be made with any paper and a stick or
pipe cleaners if you have them! Drawing coloring printer paper and cutting them
out then sticking them onto the end of the stick or taping, or how ever your
child chooses to design it, will be great!
Let them be created from the heart of a child!
I have a challenge for you as well this week!
Each day have your child and you write three things that
are not so good about the day.
Then write three things that worked great!
Gratitude is great! It encourages things to get better, so
three things to make tomorrow better!
Try to encourage the kids to write reality, and have littles draw
pictures of course, or have an older sibling help or yourself to write the
words they say.
Put these up where everyone can read them. Sometimes it
helps to encourage one another when we see their sadness items and realize we
can help in some areas. I think kids find that helping one another helps them!😎
Plan to play a game!
Do you have Monopoly? Maybe Sorry? Stuck in your cupboard?
Pull it out this week! Each time your kids complete a class they can group up
and play another round of turns! Don’t forget to make it sound fun when you
tell them about it!
If your kids made a board game last week then play them one
evening! Make it family game night! Pop Popcorn, have delicious beverages and lots of laughter!
This will help transition to another month of stay at home possibility!
Encourage your kids to get ahead in class incase they go
back to school. The fact is things will be rather interesting as they return to
class, if they get to do that this year, and being ahead will give them one up on
their grades as well as help the teacher and other classmates to move forward
faster!
During class or work time for parents kids sometimes will
finish early. That is okay but be sure to have a structured free time set up!
Create craft bins or puzzle shelves with items to put
together in order to spend extra time having fun! Try to keep the screens off during this time
and it will give them a chance to earn screen time later! If they complete a project in free time then
they can earn 5 minutes, or 10 minutes of game time or something like that. As
easy as it is for us to give in to games to give us some space, we parents need
to do just that and guide them in proper screening and quality time use.
I used to print off extra fun word games and color pages by
number and find a hidden picture sheets for the older ones to enjoy and as they
get older use crossword puzzles too! There are places online that you can create
your own!
Education.com, atozteacherstuff.com are two f them! If you
come across a page that has cost, scroll through and see what they have for
free! Most pages will have something free to print at least a copy of!
Once you have that copy, as long as you are not charging
for it and while its in your house you can print up to 6 copies of most things!
Wondering how your kids are doing?
Try a 20 questions
game! Have fun questions like “what did we
have for dinner last night?” as well as some from each of the kids levels! You
may be surprised when your 7 year old answers the high schoolers question but working
with siblings near by can bring out an amazing amount of learning!
If you are looking for a great, brightly organized, easy to
teach science class to teach check out the Real Science for Kids on Gravitas
Publications site! We used there Life science for one semester and found it to
be fast moving and exciting! They have
free samples too! Gravitaspublications.com should get you there!
Okay for fun see what you can do with this!
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| Make food FUN! Put a plate together! |
Order pizza from papa murphy’s only ask them to wrap each
item up and leave the dough unrolled! Take it home and create the pizza with
all the fixings together as a family! If you want to you can order minis for
the kids to do on their own and order another one for yourself!
Make some cookies! Look up recipes for using bananas. There
are a ton of them, and they come out really sweet! The kids will be using math, and science
while they have a great time!
Don’t forget one of the best times is always a family read
along! Take turns reading a page each, then change things up!
Play the never-ending story!
You start it…” Once upon a time there was a… cat that liked
to sleep on a rocking chair. One day the chair would not stop rocking… and then…
next person adds a portion of the story!
You can have someone write it down or record it to listen
to later! It will be a riot! One year we kept having a bunny show up it ate
chocolate cookies and climbed a skyscraper like King Kong! The stores get imaginable! Have fun and let
me know in the comments how your story went!
Get creative and have fun this week! Be blessed not stressed! It is really much more
enjoyable!