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5 Little Elephants Balancing! Nursery Rhyme for Babies and Toddlers from Sing and Learn!

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Can you hop but hey stop when I tell you to stop!

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Hop and Stop: Brain Breaks from PlayKids - Let's Move! Songs for Kids

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A*List! English Learning Videos for Kids

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Walking Walking Hop Hop Hop Song - The Kiboomers Preschool Songs & Nursery Rhymes for Circle Time

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Music and Physical Education worksheet (based on CLIL aproach). For first or second grade (6 - 8 years old). For spanish or italians speakers.

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We know that laughter has the power to break tension, but it can be the last tool we reach for in our parenting toolbox. Yet, when a child is beginning to move off-track, a playful response can be all that's needed to right things, without yelling, bribing or the need for rewards.

We take a while getting to play because often it requires a little creativity. A lightness. That can be hard to access when we're tired and thinking of all the yet-to-be-completed items on our to-do lists. But play is a child's language. With a playful response we meet children where they are. We connect in the best way they know how.

Laughter lifts low-level stress that left unresolved can mount and cause a child to move off-track. When children are unwilling to co-operate and refuse simple tasks, you can be sure they have some pent up feelings. Other times, rigid behaviors around certain things, like hair-washing or going to bed, become regular challenges, and a sore point in the relationship we have with our child. Laughter can lighten those tensions just as well.

Play Responses for Parenting Challenges

These play ideas will help in challenges that most of us parents face, and most can be adapted to your specific situation. Almost all could be used in the moment to instantly lighten things, while others will work best played when things are calm and you want to play through a sticky issue.

Letting children work through issues or feelings that bother them within the safety of play is one of the best ways we can promote their well-being while at the same time strengthening the parent-child relationship. Play builds confidence, play builds resilience, play builds connections.

Plan on games taking some time. Kids love them. The more good they are doing, the better children feel and the more they will insist on playing. Put this list in your parenting toolbox

15 Playful Responses to Everyday Parenting Challenges

When a child says no, gets very particular about certain routines, refuses to co-operate or acts silly when he attempts a task, he could be telling you he needs to connect. Try these connected play responses to turn things around.

Parenting Challenge: Doesn't Want To Share

Playful response: "It's Mine" - Take a toy yourself, wrap your arms around it, and declare, "It's mine." If your child tackles you for it, give a good fight but ultimately let your child win. Tears Heal author Kate Orson took a cuddly toy outdoors and threw it up in the air when her daughter had trouble sharing. The challenge was to grab the toy first and declare proudly, "It's mine!" before throwing it up again.
2. Parenting Challenge: Refuses to Eat
Playful response: Silly Voice - Put on a funny voice and be the food or drink at your child's setting. Go robot, opera singer or ghost, and beg them to eat, or not to eat the food.
3. Parenting Challenge: Won't Get Dressed
Playful response: Put it on Wrong - A good response is to try and put the clothes on yourself, or offer to 'help' your child get dressed but do it all wrong. Underpants on heads get a particularly big laugh.
4. Parenting Challenge: Won't Tidy Up:
Playful response: Put it Away Wrong - Say, "I'll have to do it then, that's fine, and go ahead to put everything in the wrong place. Lego in the fridge, coloring pens under the sofa. Playdough stuck under the table. When your child insists you are doing it wrong, play confused? "Wrong?! This isn't wrong."
5. Parenting Challenge: Won't Brush Teeth
Playful response: Clean Your Body - Pick up the tooth-brush and ask, "What's this? says Roma Norriss of Birthing a Better World, "a foot brush?" and playfully mime using the brush to brush your feet / hair / eyebrows. Children love to show how to brush your teeth for you - letting them brings on peals of laughter. After they get done say, "Your turn!"
6. Parenting Challenge: Won't Be Quiet
Playful response: Who's Loudest? - Play the loud/quiet game. Ask who's loudest and all go a few rounds. Next ask, "Who's quietest?" and have everyone whisper. Other questions include "Who's silliest?" "Who's singiest? "Who's highest or deepest?" Rinse and repeat.
7. Parenting Challenge: Hates Having Hair Washed
Playful response: The Great Hair Washing Machine - Become a hair-washing machine and give him a fun, automated voice. Mime out various instructions as you dictate them: Locate bottle. Twist cap. Pour. Rub shampoo in circles. Blow bubble. Rinse. If your child is giggling and having fun, you can even 'slip up' and do something extra silly. Rub his back, not his hair, for instance.
8. Parenting Challenge: Constant Bickering and Disagreements with Siblings
Playful response: Here Ye! Family Meeting - Skye Munro of Nurturing Connections puts on her best mayor's voice and calls everyone to a family meeting. She bumbles around looking for something to 'take notes' with (usually a carrot) and has each feuding sibling plead their case. "After listening to both children I will come up with a ridiculous outcome. If they are arguing over a particular toy I will announce "Whomever can stand on one leg with their eyes closed and finger on their left ear the longest shall be the rightful owner of the toy." By this time there's almost always plenty of silliness and no surly faces.
9. Parenting Challenge: Acting Clingy
Playful response: Glue Pot - Try some role reversal ahead of time if this is a lasting challenge in your house says The Connected Parent 's Rachel Schofield. Pretend to stick your child to you and see how they react. "Stick them on your hand or arm and go everywhere they go," she says. Some children openly love the close contact, others will insist they become unstuck, and then you can be the one that gets upset while they enjoy the flip of power.
10. Parenting Challenge: Doesn't Want You To Leave
Playful response: Silly Mommy - Get ready to leave and then open a cupboard door or closet, and try to walk in. Fumble around trying different doors, as your child offers his or her suggestions to the right way. Keep making mistakes until they are really having fun and then have them help you open the door and bid you goodbye.

Five Playful Responses When Your Child Has Fears

Sometimes a one-time bad experience instills fear, and you'll see a real resistance from your child. These games bring laughter that helps loosen those bad feelings. Often tears help too, and you'll need to listen to them after the giggles. This is how a child's body works through emotions. If you can stay supportive and listen empathetically, resistance can all but disappear.
11. Parenting Challenge: Fear of Bedtime
Playful Response: Get To Bed - Children can get really unsettled by the dark and knowing they'll be parted from you until morning. A good dose of the giggles actually helps them settle down. Claire Rosina plays the Get To Bed game where she shuttles her three boys off to bed early and acts like a guard on duty at the door. "I brag that no one will get past me!" she says. "Then, after they've all escaped, I turn around and pretend to be very surprised that they've all gotten out again!" A chase through the house ensues until exhaustion sets in and the real going to bed routine takes over.
12. Parenting Challenge: Fear of Bugs
Playful Response: It's a Bug's Life - If a child is scared of bugs or bees, try impersonating one yourself. Gently crawl or buzz up, and then act scared of your child and move away again. Keep at it, until your child begins to laugh. You can tempt chase by saying playfully, "I hope no-one catches me or swats me."
13. Parenting Challenge: Fear of Injections
Playful Response: Magic Shots - If you have shots coming up try injecting some fun into your play around the subject ahead of time. Muftiah Martin became a kind of "super mom" character when she and her child were playing shots with a doctor's sets. These "magic injections," can make you fly, turn somersaults, go floppy - whatever brings out the laughter.
14. Parenting Challenge: Fear of Water
Playful Response: Cough, Cough, Splutter - Getting into the pool and "messing up" ahead of your child can really take the pressure off them. If they are slow to show-off their swimming technique for fear of 'doing it wrong' you could fall in backwards and then yelp, cough and splutter - even better if they push you in.
15. Parenting Challenge: Fear of Change and Life's Big Questions
Playful Response: Powerful Playfights - Big changes or questions of life and death can leave children feeling powerless. Restore a sense of bravery and triumph with roughhousing games or play wrestling where your child overpowers you. Take on roles where you pretend to be an all powerful teacher or alien or whatever you think your child would like and proclaim your greatness, and then fumble around, trip or miss when you a within grasp of your child. Giving them power in play bolsters them during other times when they feel fear.

Adding in another play tool, Special Time, on a daily basis, where you appoint five or 10 minutes a day for play that they want to do, will serve to keep connections running high. This kind of play helps build strong trust into your relationship, keeping your child more secure in general and less prone to moving off-track.
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Motor skills: Locomotor
Age Group : Kinder +

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*FULL SONG THROW & CATCH* | This & That | nursery rhymes learning opposites | learn for kids

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I can move as an individual in my personal and general space.

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Sports and Fun for Kids - Throw the Ball

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Throw the Ball ⛹️ | Nursery Rhymes Songs for Babies | Happy Songs for Kids | Playsongs

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Are You a good driver? Can you stop when you see Stop?

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For Children. The Stop Song - Circle Song - Debbie Doo!

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Exercise song for children | Bouncing Up and Down (Official Video) Fast and Slow Actions

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5 Incredibly Fun GAMES to Teach Self-Regulation (Self-Control) | Social Emotional Learning

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Fast Slow Action Song for Kids | Learning Opposites | Learn English Children

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Ball Song | Roll the Balls with Me | Stop and Go Song for Children  | Miss Patty

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The Importance of Active play

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Motor skills: Locomotor/Non Loco motor
Age Group : Kinder +

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Children skills by age

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In these uncertain times with self-isolation within families and social distancing from the wider community, I've put together a really practical and helpful stay at home survival guide for parents to use while their children are at home. I hope you find it helpful, spread it far and wide with others.

Stay clam, playful and optimistic. We can do this together!

For many people this is the first time we've had our children all at home together for such long periods of time, without holidays and travel involved. The weeks and months ahead may therefore feel really daunting, even overwhelming.

I can understand that feeling too, but I think it helps to be calm and remind ourselves we can TOTALLY DO THIS and we are perfectly suited to the task ahead. Yes, it will require a period of settling and adjustment to new routines and preparation will be your friend here.

Let me help you get started with this simple guide and don't forget, you will also find me sharing DAILY PLAY and LEARNING IDEAS over on my Imagination Tree Instagram feed (where I often chat to camera behind the scenes and show you how-tos and set up videos too.) Also, I am going to open up the doors to my private membership site for parents PlayLab EARLY so that new members can hop on board and have weekly advice, videos, training and materials from me directly. This will be a great stress reliever as I will do lots of the work for you! Hop on over here to sign up to register your interest now, ready for when the doors open in the next couple of weeks!
Ok, let's start our Stay at Home Survival Guide!
Firstly, take the pressure off yourself. You do not need to be perfect at organising timetables, fun activities and teaching material. It will absolutely be ok if some things slip for a while. YOU know your child the best and WILL be able to provide well for them during this period, including their educational development. Their teachers will give some guidance and there are plenty of ideas online for a lifetime of learning ideas. Kids are amazingly adaptable, including being able to catch up again with their learning. This is not forever!

If in doubt, keep it PLAYFUL, fun and as active as possible as this is the proven best way to learn and retain new information. This could look like running around the house to hunt for hidden phonemes/ sight words against a timer, instead of studying boring worksheets, for example. This will also help keep them moving as much as possible which is very important when going out is no longer an option.

STOCK UP

I DO suggest stocking up as early as possible on loads of basic sensory play materials and learning resources.

Everything in this list will be useful in making play dough, slime, cloud dough, salt dough, dyed rice/ pasta, scented sensory play materials, sensory writing trays and LOADS of creative art activities. This combination pretty much covers all bases! Find the recipes themselves in the archives here and in my Sensory Invitations to Play Cards.

These are inexpensive but really useful to have handy in the cupboards for the days when you want to pull your hair out with frustration! If in doubt, ditch everything and get messy!

This list of learning materials will obviously depend on the age and stage of your own children, but it covers a good range from approx preschooler to older Primary school. These are versatile resources that can be combined in a variety of ways to make all kinds of DIY learning through play games and activities. You'll find the ideas themselves in the archives here (scroll down) and over on my daily instagram updates. PlayLab members will get them delivered directly on the membership site too.

MAKE A PLAN

Planning ahead will also be your friend here. Make a loose schedule for the weekdays and then be sure to plan in sensory play time and open-ended too. This will help everyone feel calmer and aid relaxation as the pressure will be off you to think on your feet. Here is a suggested week-day plan for children of school age. It might look very different in your home and some days you may skip everything for a day climbing trees or having a Harry Potter movie watching marathon instead maybe!

I can't say exactly how long each session would be as that would depend on your breakfast and dinner times, but I'd imagine around 30 mins per activity in the morning, with 10-15 minute breaks. And then longer stretches during free play and creative/ science projects in the afternoons. Read aloud time works really well straight after lunch while they're still at the table, for about half an hour. This can also be an audiobook, of course!

Plan for long periods of open-ended play, quiet time and creativity. Kids are brilliant at play, so provide them the tools/ space/ time and let them get on with it! The sooner they get used to this, the better this part of the day will be.

GET OUTSIDE

The best thing we can do with them is get them out into nature (unless they are showing symptoms of course.)

Find wide open spaces in the countryside such as nature trails, empty beaches or the woods and let them run wild climbing trees, building dens and burning off as much energy as possible.

GET MOVING

Even if you can't get outside or go further than your own garden/ yard, its possibly to get creative with your movement games.

Have a mini Olympics, make obstacle courses inside and out, jump on the trampoline, have disco dance parties, make up silly walks, play computer dance games etc!

Watch some kiddie yoga online, do stretches or family HITT workouts.

UTILISE SCREEN TIME

Screen time is not the enemy, it's a useful tool!

I suggest planning it into your daily schedule for times when you need a quiet period for your own planning/ admin/ online shopping/ work etc. You need some space from each other to keep the routine (and peace) flowing well.

Also, watching movies can be turned into an educational activity by asking them to rate them afterwards and complete movie review sheets! Watch nature and science documentaries, create projects based on the topics learned. Shows like Horrible Histories are a great springboard for fun projects.

SENSORY PLAY

This is really important as it helps keeps kids calm and focused. It's a great stress and anxiety reliever too, which will be very beneficial with the daily news updates and worries.

Stock up on sensory ingredients and dedicate a time of day to this. You can also move sensory play to the bath or garden for better containment if you're worried about mess.

Use the checklist above and then find my Sensory Invitations to Play cards full of recipes to help! (These are currently 25% off to try and help make them as accessible as possible to everyone.)

READING & WRITING

Audiobooks will be fantastic during this time, as will read aloud time together. Try reading in a makeshift fort, in the dark with torches, while they're in the bath or outside.

Find new books and review them for other kids online.

Write a book diary, make bookmarks, make a library role play area at home, read TO each other, read poetry and use all these experiences to inspire some writing too.

School aged kids can be fantastically independent in their writing projects. You just need to offer some inspiration with open-ended prompts such as: write a story/ comic/ quiz book/ poem/ book review/ information-based project etc.

Keep it purposeful and fun, it does not need to look like "school". Writing real letters to family members and friends that you can't see in person will be both fun and meaningful.

Older kids could set up private YouTube channels and share ideas there with their friends online!

Make use of the myriad of great resources online. Let THEM be the teaching tool and guide you need.

CREATIVITY

Keep the art supplies freely available and they will surprise you with their creative ideas! Save recycling and encourage them to make towns/ junk models. homes for their toys/ pretend gadgets etc.

Painting, drawing, sewing, paper mache, salt-dough and clay modelling are all great on-going projects.

Watch YouTube for tutorials on learning new skills eg crochet, sewing, tie-dye, weaving etc.

Play music, put on shows, dress up, create costumes from newspaper, do face painting, do talent shows, learn stop motion animation- the list can be endless!

A cardboard box is endless fun for all ages- just be creative with what you add!

Creativity involves lego, photography, cooking, trying smoothie recipes, having bake-off contests, creating projects for other kids.

Create loads of art then finally put together an exhibition! Take photos and share with family members via WhatsApp or online.

So many possible ideas- ask your children what they love to do the most!

FREE PLAY

This is by far the best thing your children can do, especially when in balance with some learning time. Give them some dedicated space for play and schedule it into the day.

Make resources available and include plenty of loose parts for play as these are open-ended and can be used in a myriad of ways.

You could do learning all morning then creative projects, free play and screen time in the afternoons for example. This model would work well and be really easy to achieve.

You could theme the weeks so that there is a different focus eg talent show to work on one week of afternoons, science fair to prepare the following week etc.

Get the whole family involved in some of these big games and challenges- it will be a great stress reliever and lots of fun!

SCIENCE

Grow beans, make lava lamps, make fizzing potions, play with water beads, make slime etc.

Search Pinterest for so many ways to investigate using household materials!

Design and make your own science fair at home!

I have plenty of ideas in the Imagination Tree archives to keep you busy for a long time! Here's a quick list of links to the deeper archives:
PLAYFUL LITERACY IDEAS here. PLAYFUL MATHS IDEAS here. SENSORY PLAY RECIPES here. SCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS here.
Finally, keep in contact with others through phone calls and FaceTime. Encourage each other and share great ideas and tips that you find online. Let's keep communicating and laughing through it all and we can get through this together, even when physically apart. I am hoping your elderly loved ones are kept safe.

If this Stay at Home Survival Guide has been useful for you, please consider passing it on to others as this helps me as well as them. Thank you! x

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In these uncertain times with self-isolation within families and social distancing from the wider community, I've put together a really practical and helpful stay at home survival guide for parents to use while their children are at home. I hope you find it helpful, spread it far and wide with others.

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Learning Outcomes : Moving in different directions, Grabbing, Sorting, dribbling
Motor skills: Locomotor/Manipulative
Age Group : Kinder +

Tip 1: Cut out as many ball pictures and hide them around the house so  activity can turn into a treasure hunt and sort them in two different containers labeled : Big Small

Tip 2: Find as many balls in the house and follow same activity in Tip 1. You can even add dribbling the different size balls before sorting them into container

Tip 3: Variation use toys instead (follow below worksheet)

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Bigger or Smaller? Transportation | Worksheet | Education.com

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Learning Outcomes : Moving in different directions with different actions : jumping , crawling, bending, curling, hopping, galloping, balancing, stretching, running, leaping, catching, balancing on different body parts
Motor skills: Locomotor/Non Loco motor
Age Group : Kinder +

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Learning Outcomes : Moving in different directions, Grabbing, Sorting, drippling
Motor skills: Locomotor/Manipulative
Age Group : Kinder +

Variation suggestion use like the video different objects in the house during your daily chores to reinforce concept

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Sorting and Matching Games | Learn Sorting by Size for Preschool & Kindergarten | Kids Academy

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Active Play and socio-emotional development

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Active Play and socio-emotional development

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🏃🏼‍♂️The 7 basic Locomotion movements for sport | Teaching Fundamentals of PE