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Esse espaço é muito interessante pra quando a criança está muito agitada  dai ela vai pra esse cantinho e se acalma e depois que ela se acalmar volta a brincar.

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É interessante a cozinha para trabalhar com as crianças a parte da desigualdade onde "só mulher que pode cozinhar homem não fica na cozinha"....

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Esse cantinho é muito importante para as crianças para elas terem uma percepção de valores ou quantidade dando pra trabalhar com eles a matemática. 

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Neste cantinho, podemos trabalhar com a criança, o cuidado com ela e com os outros.

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O cantinho da beleza é importante para o autoconhecimento da criança e ajuda a desenvolver a autoestima da mesma.

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Nesse cantinho, a criança vai desenvolver mais o afeto, cuidando dos seus animais de pelúcia.

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Um dos meus cantinhos preferidos, é o cantinho da história. Aqui, é onde as crianças se juntam para ouvir e contar suas histórias preferidas, histórias novas e para realizar suas leituras.

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Essa imagem, não é exatamente o que eu procurava, mas, ela trás o conceito de uma fila de ônibus. Acredito ser necessário mostrar para as crianças, a importância do respeito com o próximo. E como exemplo, faria a simulação de um ônibus, com diversas pessoas (idosos, gestantes, deficientes, etc) cada criança teria o seu papel. Dessa forma elas teriam que pensar a quem dar o lugar, como se comportar, os sinais de transito que devem ser respeitados.

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Um dos cantinhos que eu gostaria de construir com as crianças, é o cantinho pet. Os animais são maravilhosos para ajudar as crianças a construir uma relação de respeito. Acredito que é necessário ensinar as crianças a cuidar e respeitar os animais, e um espaço pet ajudaria nessa construção.

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Outra forma de aproximar a criança da natureza, da terra, das flores, dos animais, das folhas, e principalmente  de outros estilos de vida, rotinas, cotidianos, tarefas, interações etc. A importância  e a responsabilidade das instituições de ensino de aproximar a criança de todos os espaços, além do meio que ela vive é muito importante para seu desenvolvimento. Nos lembra a metodologia de Waldorf, que busca esse desenvolvimento do ser humano em todos os aspectos, em contato com diversos ambientes e com a oportunidade de participar e criar.

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Apr 19, 2014 - Summers on Mellor Ranch are pure bliss, but winters can be a little stir-crazy. Last fall, we anticipated a long, cold winter indoors with a hyperactive toddler and we started scheming. We decided to turn the loft above our garage into a playroom where we could spend a few hours a d…

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Sem dúvida, uma forma maravilhosa de aproximar a criança da natureza, da terra, das flores, dos animais, das folhas,etc. Os dias de hoje estão cada vez mais automatizados, a tecnologia tomou conta de todos os espaço, do dia a dia das crianças. A importância é a responsabilidade das instituições de ensino de aproxima a criança de todos os espaços, além do meio que ela vive é muito importante para seu desenvolvimento. Além de ser um ambiente incrível para contação de história, observação do céu, das estrelas, etc.

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Aspectos além da água, como o cuidado com as roupas, a importância do lavar (o porquê a mamae/papai lava as roupas, como ela/ele fazem). Muitas vezes a criança apenas assiste estas ações realizadas pelo país, sem entender o que realmente significa, e muitas vezes não tem contato coma ação,  se limitando apenas a assistir o processo. Trazer esta atividade para dentro da brinquedoteca , faz com que a criança veja a importância  da higiene, da água, do cuidado com  as roupas, da serventia do sabão, da lavadora, da secadora, do varal, do sol, o calor, os três estados da matéria,  dentre outros aspectos. Ou seja, o espaço, cantinho, desenvolve nas crianças muita mais habilidade e desperta muito mais curiosidades do que imaginamos. 🏠

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Por fazer parte do cotidiano das criança, do dia a dia e de sua rotina. É de extrema importância que este passo seja explorado por elas em diferentes aspectos, seja eles : Conhecendo, se aproximando e aprofundando sobre os alimentos, valor (preço) dos itens,  qualidade dos produtos, importância para a saúde, importância do descarte correto, dentre outros conhecimentos que podem ser desenvolvidos em um único espaço,  cantinho.

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O cantinho do mercado, onde a criança vai estar expandindo seus conhecimentos, conhecendo melhor os alimentos presentes no seu dia-a-dia.

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Dramatic Play

Dramatic play helps develop;
*Creativity
*Knowledge of how the world works
*Problem-solving skills
*Emotional strength and stability in actions and words
*Language skills
*Focus, concentration
*Styles of behavior
*Cooperation with others
*perception of meaning
*Participation in world
*imagination
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Dramatic play helps develop; *Creativity *Knowledge of how the world works *Problem-solving skills *Emotional strength and stability in actions and words *Language skills *Focus, concentration *Styles of behavior *Cooperation with others *perception of meaning *Participation in world *imagination For more awesome information see articles Dramatic play-why is it so important and The Importance of Pretend Play

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Following Tristan's first optometry appointment we brought out our own optician's office that we made some time back. It's a lot of fun so we thought we'd share it with you today.

This pretend play idea came to be after my last optometrist's appointment 2 years ago. I was having lots of headaches and things were seeming blurry and I was wearing my glasses more often without improvement and I was convinced I needed a stronger prescription. While Phil and Kallista parked the car, Tristan and I wandered around the optician's waiting room.

I HATE trying on frames and I don't think anything looks good on me, but it was more fun with Tristan along. He always turns a distasteful experience into something positive; it's one of his special talents.I thought it would be nice for Tristan to try on a couple of pairs of glasses as well so that he could get the full experience, and then he would know what to expect after he had his appointment in the future, just in case he needed his own pair of specs.

Tristan looks like his much older cousin (my nephew) when he was the same age and was wearing glasses. Sharing this experience with Tristan, I did find a pair of frames that weren't horrible on me, and the waiting time passed very quickly. It was such a joyous day for me when I found out that my eyesight had actually improved and I no longer needed to wear glasses any longer! I could hardly believe it!

When we returned home we thought it would be fun to set up our own optician's office, using Tristan's pipe cleaner Clark Kent glasses as a starting point. Phil helped Tristan make a few more pairs of glasses in different designs and styles while I thought up a way to display them. We came up with a fun recycled display case, and you can make your own, too!

How to make an optician's office display case

I used an empty cereal box for the main structure of this case. If we were to do this again, I would recommend using a wider-sided cereal box, but we make ours work with a little wiggling.

I carefully opened out the box and then Tristan painted the plain inside of it a lovely sparkly green colour.

Next we needed a 'nose' to hold the glasses up. The pointy inside divider of an egg carton worked very well for this. I tore out one of these pointy bits and flattened out the bits at the base of it. I then fashioned another two noses. Tristan painted the nose pieces.

Once they were dry I cut an 'X' into the front of the cereal box, folding the flaps away from the painted side of the cardboard. I poked a nose through this hole and held it into place with some tape on the back side.

I took a pair of the pipe cleaner glasses and place them on the nose to determine where I should make a hole on either side of the nose. These holes would be where the arms of the glasses would slide, acting as the ears. Once all of this had been completed, I used some double-sided tape to put the box back together, with the painted side now on the outside.

This box also makes a great place to store the pipe cleaner glasses when they are not in use. Now that we had the glasses ready, it was time to prepare a place for the eye exams themselves. I searched the internet for a Snellen chart and printed a couple out. Another option is to make your own charts. We have also used these charts as practice in learning the alphabet, so they do double-duty. Always a great feature of any activity.

We also made a quick tool (I can't find the proper name of it-if you're in-the-know, please let me know) by using some double-sided tape to hold a piece of cardstock onto a popsicle stick. This was used to cover one eye of the 'patient' while the other eye was being tested.

We set up our props and Tristan and Kallista took turns wearing the lab coat and being the optometrist and testing eyesight. Using a little finger on a stick made this more fun for them to point out the letters. Tristan showed Kallista how it was done when he went to see the optometrist for his first visit.

If the client was in need of glasses, then they moved over to the optician's side of the practice and helped each other find the perfect pair and did a little adjustment to the arms if needed.

We have many pairs of these pipe cleaner glasses now, and the collection keeps growing as the fashion trends change. Click here if you'd like to see how we made them.

This is one pretend play theme that will continue on into the future I have no doubt with the fun they've been having, and it tidies up quickly and neatly back into its own box, a bonus for storage!

To go along with this, we've also read Benjamin & the Super Spectacles by Rachel Bright. This is a cute book about Benjamin Bunny who can't see very well and gets into all sorts of misunderstandings because of it, but he doesn't want to wear glasses. Finally his friends convince him to wear the coolest specs around and his vision is transformed. Now only if there was an adult version of this book for us stubborn adults who don't like to wear specs!

Do your children wear glasses? How did they adjust to wearing them?

Have you seen our other posts on how to make pipe cleaner glasses, or a first trip to the optometrist? Or if you like pretend play, check out our Bakery!

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Following Tristan's first optometry appointment we brought out our own optician's office that we made some time back. It's a lot of fun so we thought we'd share it with you today. This pretend play idea came to be after my last optometrist's appointment 2 years ago.

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My toddler loves making ice cream. Not real ice cream. Someday maybe. Like when the weather is a little closer to 80° and not 30°. For now, we just make pretend ice cream.

Anyway, she'll ask me to draw ice cream cones. She'll stack blocks and pretend it's ice cream and ask me to lick it.

After months of this, I decided it was time to do an ice cream parlor dramatic play activity.

I should've done this months ago... Setting it up couldn't have been easier...

Supplies for an Ice Cream Parlor Dramatic Play Activity
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How We Set Up Our Ice Cream Parlor Dramatic Play Activity

I considered making ice cream butter slime, but in the end went with a mess-free version instead.

Don't worry, you crazy mess-lovers, you. I'll get around to doing a messy, messy butter slime ice cream parlor activity for you soon.

First, I made a few ice cream cones. I wanted to use brown paper to be more realistic, but little miss specifically requested this polka dot scrapbook paper instead, and who was I to refuse?

I used my handy dandy cone making DIY Party Board paper cutter to make a few ice cream cone shapes. It was super easy to use with the guide and made PERFECT cones.

Next, we crumpled pastel-colored tissue paper to make our ice cream scoops.

This is an excellent fine motor activity for kids (and adults). Plus, what kid doesn't love crumpling paper?

Look at how hard she's working to crumple up that paper!

I let her crumple as much as she wanted, but I had to go through and give each paper ball a few extra squeezes to get it as tight as possible.

This was why I used tissue paper. Not only is it easier to crumple, but it stays in a tighter ball shape much better than thicker paper.

I didn't bother using any glue or tape to hold the balls together, but you can wrap the balls with clear tape if you really want the balls to hold their shape.

Learning to Match Colors With Ice Cream

Is your little one learning color words? An ice cream parlor dramatic play may be just the thing to help him learn! Find more tips about teaching colors to toddlers in this post.
Here's how I set up the ice cream dramatic play as a color matching game.
Once all the ice cream scoops were made, I tossed them all in an empty bin. I laid out an ice cream scoop, bowls, and our handmade paper ice cream cones.

She scooped matching colors of ice cream into their matching colored bowls.

Sprinkled some pretend sprinkles...

Put a little cherry on top... We used all red cherries, but you could do pom poms that are the same colors as your ice cream and bowls for even more color matching fun.

And made a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone for me! (My favorite flavor... how did she know?!)

Instead of the red cones we used, you could do cones that match the color of ice cream you have.

Talk about the colors that your child sees and matches. Constant exposure to color words and experience in matching and naming colors will help your child learn colors!

"Cheeeeese.... Are we done taking pictures, Mommy?"

More Of The Ice Cream Parlor Dramatic Play

We had the little play kitchen from IKEA next to the ice cream bin. Ella used it mostly to display her finished ice cream bowls.

This particular bowl is a fun one. I ripped sheets of blue and pink tissue paper in half and crumpled them together to make this dual-colored bubblegum ice cream.

Our Ice Cream Flavors

It's a little hard to tell, but we used the following colors of tissue paper to make different ice cream flavors:

tan: chocolate ice cream

white: vanilla ice cream

white with black specks colored with a Sharpie: vanilla chocolate chip

green with black specks: mint chocolate chip

pink: strawberry ice cream

orange: orange sherbet

yellow: lemon sherbet

pink and blue: bubblegum ice cream

purple: grape ice cream

All these tissue paper colors came in this pack that I ordered on Amazon. I used one sheet to make one scoop of ice cream, and I made three scoops of each flavor.
There was plenty of tissue paper to spare, so we might have to have an ice cream party play date with some friends!
"SO MANY FLAVORS!"

Your Turn For An Ice Cream Dramatic Play Activity

This is one ice cream play activity that is mess-free, engaging, colorful, and fun!

Start crumpling that tissue paper!

Adding a Literacy Component for Early Readers

An ice cream shop wouldn't be complete without a menu and a cash register. My toddler isn't reading yet, but if yours is, label your ice cream flavors and toppings, and write out a menu complete with prices to enhance literacy.

Here's a free ice cream toppings printable from Pre-K Pages.

The Crafting Chicks also has a cute menu and order form printable on the site.

Check out both of these resources for more ice cream shop fun!

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My toddler loves making ice cream. Not real ice cream. Someday maybe. Like when the weather is a little closer to 80° and not 30°. For now, we just make pretend ice cream. Anyway, she'll ask me to draw ice cream cones. She'll stack blocks and pretend it's ice cream and ask me to lick it.

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