Indicative Activities which can be conducted at Home
Regarding the celebration of Punun Bharat Pakhwada
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મહત્વપૂર્ણ લિંક 2024
મહત્વપૂર્ણ લિંક 2022
In case the schools are closed due to COVID or summer vacation, some of the indicative activities are given which the parents can organise easily at home with their children:
Activities for 3 to 8 Years old Children
Naming things- Ask the child or give them names of different items available at home, and classify them.
Dress up: Select some different fabrics, an old scarf, dupatta, and encourage the child
to make a pretend costume out of what is available at home.
Hunting shapes: Parents can go on a shape hunt inside the home with child.
Name that noise: Make different animal sounds and have the child guess which animal the parent is pretending to be.
The body game: Name child’s body parts and point to them to teach her their names.
Kitchen drummer: Turn over safe, shatter-proof bowls, pots, and pans to make a set of drums straight from kitchen.
Free draw: Give child some crayons and paper to draw away! Children also love to draw in the mud or sand.
Regarding the celebration of Punun Bharat Pakhwada
Ball pass: Grab a softball and roll it back and forth with your toddler.
Hide and hunt: Collect a few small objects and cloth to hide and uncover for identification, counting, remembering, etc.
Family band: Sing songs with the child and create musical instruments from safe objects available around the house. Parents can sing songs that they have learnt as a child.
Imagine: Parents can ask their children to pretend to be a lazy cat or a dog that just got up from her sleep then yawns, stretches its legs and body, and makes a funny sound.
Read or tell a story: Parents can talk to the child about their childhood and narrate them a story, if book is available they can read a story from that book.
Young helpers in the home: Folding and putting away washed clothes can be an enjoyable activity. Children can be asked to sort clothes based on size or colours too.
Let’s make toys: If paper is available then parents can make boats, airplanes, birds by paper folding. If paper is not available, clay can be used for children to make toys of their choice. Children can be encouraged to develop and play with games with pictures, numbers, and text.
Young helpers in the home: Folding and putting away washed clothes can be an enjoyable activity. Children can be asked to sort clothes based on size or colours too.Regarding the celebration of Punun Bharat Pakhwada
Let’s make toys: If paper is available then parents can make boats, airplanes, birds by paper folding. If paper is not available, clay can be used for children to make toys of their choice. Children can be encouraged to develop and play with their own board games with pictures, numbers, and text.
Let’s count and other mathematical concepts: Parent may ask child to count different objects or can give them clay balls or other lay materials to learn the number concept.
Connect with nature: Children can be encouraged to observe the flowers, trees, plants, leaves, birds, butterflies, insects in the local environment.
Patterns and designs: Parents can provide children with bottle caps, leaves, flowers, and twigs and can be shown to them a pattern followed by asking them to copy the same. Children should be encouraged to make their own patterns.
Let’s make storybooks: If parents get a newspaper at home they can use pictures from it and make a new storybook along with the child.
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child to display their drawings, writing materials or any othes tal collect. One portion of the wall can be painted and used as a blackboard for children to write.
Picture Reading/Talk: Children can be shown sceneries of a particular event, place, story like a fair/mela, zoo, circus, etc, and asked to talk about it.
Read aloud of stories: Parents, older siblings and other caregivers can read aloud stories from engaging books or using online resources. Children could be asked to read aloud the stories read out to them.
Learning to add and subtract: Using easily available materials at home like vegetables, pebbles, pulses, or other objects, basic addition and subtraction can be done.
Making new words: Parents can give the child a letter consonant grid and ask her/him to make new words and say them out and write them too. Fun with a calendar: Many homes will have a calendar, use it for talking about
numbers, children can be asked to identify the days of the week, count the number of
Mondays/Sundays in a month, map the weather of each day using symbols for
different weather types.
Taking care of the environment: Parents must encourage children to plant seeds or
take care of plants or animals at home. Ask them to observe these and to study the
growth and behaviour of plants and animals.
Doing puzzles: Parents can take a large picture from a newspaper, magazine and cut
it out in different shapes and sizes and create puzzles. Children will enjoy joining
these pieces and doing the puzzles.
Monitor: For young children monitoring of progress must be part of the activities that
are conducted with them, can a 5-year-old classify objects based on size, colour.
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