March 2020

Famous and Inspiring Quotes:

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Chuck Swindoll

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face….we must do that which we think we cannot…..
Eleanor Roosevelt

Fun Ideas for the Kids at Home

Parent participation:

Scavenger hunt in neighbourhood. Im sure there are picture hunts on-line that you can use or else make up your own. (cars, dogs, bird, tree, fire hydrant, store, plane, etc)
Play I spy with colors. Ask children to find something that is blue etc and bring it to you.
Make a collage with things collected from a walk
Make play dough and then play with it.
Make a cereal necklace
Make a musical parade using items from the kitchen as instruments
Host a tea party.. bake cookies and then ask Dad to join in
Bowl using empty bottles as pins
Make a car wash for bikes or riding toys
Race pompoms by blowing them with a straw
Make masks with paper bags or paper plates and decorate them
Play the game WAR… or Go Fish…..you may have to look up the rules online
Do a puzzle
Let your child read you a story by looking at the pictures or make up a story together and they can draw and color the pictures
Plant a seed and watch it grow.
Keep a balloon in the air as long as possible
Play hot and cold with a hidden object
Get the kids helping in the kitchen, doing dishes, scrubbing potatoes, peeling carrots
Use cooking tools to play in water. Add some food colouring for fun
Set up a sheet(fort) in the living room and let the children make a bed and bring fav toys into it.
Yard work, bagging leaves, raking etc.
Hopping outside on the grass in a pillow case

Some ideas children can work on independently:

Children like sorting, so if you can think of about 4 items that you can mix in a bowl then have them separate them into 4 smaller bowls.
Folding laundry…. it can be pretend laundry that you don’t care if its folded properly or dropped on the floor.
Sweep the floor using a small broom and dust pan
Make hand or body shadows using a flashlight in a dark space
Snowball toss…..use socks or crunched up paper for snowballs and children throw them in a basket.

Please send in pictures and videos and we will plan on posting them on next months newsletter. We are all in this together and now more than ever it is nice to connect with others.

Here is a link for more preschool ideas:

https://thestay-at-home-momsurvivalguide.com/preschool-activities/