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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Expanding Joy in 2024 PAGE 1 How Nature’s ‘Green Magic’ Can Transform Your Health
Injecting Hope PAGE 2
Reminiscing on Life With the Littles
Sip of the Month PAGE 3
Engage Kids in Creative Play Without Electronics PAGE 4
UNPLUGGED FUN–IGNITE YOUR CHILD’S IMAGINATION BEYOND SCREENS
In today’s world of video games and streaming for entertainment, one of the most powerful — and rewarding — steps you can take is engaging your child’s imagination without electronic devices.
BALLOON SPORTS You can also engage your child’s hand-eye coordination skills with a fun game of balloon tennis or volleyball. To start, simply blow up a few balloons of different sizes. Then find a chair or other items around your house that can double as a “net” between you and your child. The fun comes in batting the “ball” (a balloon) back and forth across the net. When your child bats the balloon to your side and you hit it back without it passing back over the net, the point goes to your child, just like in real tennis or volleyball. You can keep score if you’d like. You can also make up your own rules, like players can hit the balloon two times before returning it to the player on the other side of the net. Or, if you want to really challenge your hand-eye coordination, you can use two balloons and try to keep both in play at the same time.
A MAKE-BELIEVE STORE One great way to do that is by putting your child in charge of a make-believe ice cream store. It’s easy and only takes a few common household items, starting with a few bowls.
First, squirt a generous helping of shaving cream into each bowl, then add different colors of food coloring to each. After stirring with a spoon, your child will suddenly have a variety of make-believe “flavors” to offer to their customer — you. They’ll have fun scooping up the flavors you want from each bowl into a plastic cup. You can even have other small household items in other bowls (such as buttons and small craft items) that can serve as the ice cream “toppings.”
At the end of the day, with fun activities like these, you can engage your child’s imagination with a true brand of homemade fun!
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