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My preschooler likes to paint.
I’m not very artistic even though I love visiting Pink and Green mama for inspiration with art. I’m trying to find different ways to encourage this creative side and not allow my lack of paint creativity hinder my children’s obvious enjoyment of using paint. Usually they have an unstrucutred art activity. Here’s the paint choices. Which do you want? Here are the paper choices- which do you want? Choose 3 -5 sheets. Then they go wild for a while.
Today I worked together with the preschooler on this piece. It’s a joint effort. I think it is pretty obvious where I helped and what he did.
We experimented with a picture and crayons today then washed it all with watered down paint.
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………….. The cat sat on the mat:)
What we achieved today: Creative moment…calming time….focus…..concentration…achievement and a big smile.
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Week 17th Jan 2010: We revisit evaluating play and how it helps to make us the type of parent we want to be by having manageable and realistic goals for our children’s play life. Two new play articles in the news that will have an impact on our play and a family game we enjoy. Keep up to date with new show by signing up for the newsletter. When you sign up for the newsletter you get a free 11 page special report 10 ways to extend your child’s play.
Being a mother at home can be a very lonely experience.
Partly I started this blog as a way of reaching out to other mums who felt the same way about play and partly because I was away from home in a foreign land and was experiencing complete culture shock. There as so many similarities between the British and the American culture but there are quite a few distinctions too. That and I was living in rural Italy really shock my world.
I loved the community I experienced online with forums and blog posts that I could relate to. I could see I wasn’t alone in my despair and could celebrate my successes however small or insignificant. For the last 3 years I have been blogging here and sharing what I do as a parent to encourage play like we remember. I’m not perfect but I’m happy to pick myself up, dust myself off and try again.
Much of that has to do with the community I feel around me. I love to visit my local momslikeme forum. I get to meet local mums for playdates and have adult conversation. Nothing feels better than sharing what’s going on with you, listening to what’s going on with them and hearing other peoples take on things. I have learnt so much and feel like I’m a better person for it. We all have so many valuable things to share especially about play and I like the back and forth discussion you get in a community.
So I started our very own community. A place where we can talk about play. The community is called Raising Playful Tots. I have the widget on the podcast site. I have a lot of opportunities to talk to you but I would love to hear what you have to say. Moving around as we do as a military family has really made me want to engage in community because my community changes every few years.
Playing by yourself is no fun so why not come on over and say hi, ask that question and hang out. I’d love to just chat. I have questions too so am hoping you can help. I’m hoping we can chat more about some of the blog posts and podcasts , past and present, share our thoughts, network and play. To join this community use this link to go to theblogfrog.
Amber Passey of Because Babies Grow Up shares her thoughts on child development, physical, cognitive and language development.
I’m pleased to announce a new chatty member of the family- an Internet radio show/podcast called Raising Playful Tots.
Raising Playful Tots is an Internet Radio Talk Show & Podcast dedicated to appropriate play in Early Childhood. It’s the audio version of the philosophy that we do here.
I will be sharing tips and talking with others about Early years play as we remember it from our childhood.
Listen online . At the bottom of the post is a player with the play button.
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