#Lazonarosa: mother Valeria's 13 do-it-yourself games
In these days of tension caused by the Coronavirus, we are all confined to home to avoid contagion and all busy filling our days, especially if we have young children!
We have launched the hashtag #lazonarosa to help each other with tips on how to keep relationships at a distance, yoga classes in streaming and much more.
By the way, here are some tips on how to spend time with your family:
Answering the question "how do we keep children busy?" answered Valeria, a young mother of four children: Claudia (6 months), Massimo (4 years), Gloria (6 years) and Antonio (8 years).
In short, regardless of the quarantine, Valeria knows how to stimulate the creativity of her children and how to ensure that they have fun in a healthy way and at no cost! For this, he gave us 13 valuable ideas to let the little ones play and keep them busy and smiling until bedtime!
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1.The Montessori game of decanting
To keep the kids busysays Valeria, water is enough! And also some small funnels, some corks and some jars. Ice cubes and food coloring.
Let's think about when, as children, after lunch we liked to create magical potions by emptying the bottoms of cups and glasses into a single container!
The racking mechanism is an action that intrigues the little ones who see us perform this type of action, especially in the kitchen. It also helps them to develop eye-hand skills.
"The kids are sure to get drenched. But they'll have a lot of fun."
Read also: 5 Montessori games for your kids
2. Shell peanuts, peel almonds, peel peas and clean green beans
A surefire way to get them to play in the kitchen and get help! By the way, if your children have a tantrum about eating vegetables, if they've helped prepare them, they're more likely to taste them!
3. Play at the spa
A game that mothers and fathers will also love: we soak our feet in water full of foam, we put creams and oils to be beautiful and hydrated (focus on BIO products such as coconut oil that you can easily find on Amazon) and let's not forget the inevitable cucumbers on the eyes
4. Cakes and biscuits: a must
There is little to explain, there is not even a reason not to prepare sweets!
5. The mosaic
What to do with cardboard scraps and kitchen paper rolls? But it is obvious! We play it.
We build castles and houses and cover them with pieces of colored cardboard.
> Here is the perfect glue for kids, on Amazon
> Set of colored cards on Amazon
6. The collage
Flyers, newspapers and packaging. If your children are learning to read, it is a fun way to learn letters, if they are still too young, let them invent their own stories by being guided by colors and shapes.
7. DIY masks and costumes!
Children love to dress up and disguise themselves. But rather than buying everything, having them design the disguise, it's much better! It will keep them busy for quite a while, and to make a Viking costume, it takes cardboard, needle, thread and tape:
8. Mosaic rainbows, wadding clouds
But also seascapes, mountains, forests. We make children recreate natural landscapes using materials that we find at home, which really remind us how the elements we want to reproduce are made!
9. Baskets with newspapers
With all these beautiful creations around, it takes space to keep order. So let's get to work and create the containers too! Let's take the newspapers and flyers and make ourselves some colorful baskets!
> Round tip scissors at Amazon
10. Egg shells
Lots of smiley faces on the eggs, or despair on the broken egg or a washed and painted shell to put the chocolate eggs in
> 120 brush set on Amazon
11. Nests for Easter eggs
Cotton wool, ribbons, pasta and egg cartons to prepare beautiful nests for the Easter eggs that will embellish the house in a few weeks!
12. Plant seedlings and flowers
In glasses or egg boxes (always full of resources), a little soil and some seeds are enough to plant flowers and some plants.
13. Look for rhyming words
It enriches children's language properties, but also ours: surely your children will come up with some words that you would never expect!
For other ideas follow mom Valeria on Instagram!
