Sunday, August 25, 2013

Camp Mom - Me & My Family

I know it's the end of summer vacation for most (I survived! I'm still here!!!), and some of you may have even sent your kids back to school already, but before you know it, the winter holidays will be here, and you better be prepared than sorry, so... What's better than another day of Camp Mom? We already had Nature Day and Art Day, and today I invite you to join us for a family day.
Camp Mom - Me & My Family
To start the day, we talked about their favorite things. I asked them to take five minutes to walk around the house and collect their favorite things. Then we used some of these items to create a self portrait.
Camp Mom - Me & My Family

She used hearts, glitters and princesses, of course...

Camp Mom - Me & My Family

He used a spaceship we made a long time ago, a card of his favorite online game, playmobil images and... Glitters!
Camp Mom - Me & My Family

Then we created a family board game. We began with planning how the board will look like, then created the spaces, the chance cards and the rules. The idea was that everything should be related to our family (the spaces on the board contain dinosaurs and soccer for him, princesses and fairies for her and glitters for both. The cards require family knowledge like her favorite outfit, his favorite food and Granma's special pancakes recipe). We even used Das to make the small tokens ourselves. 
קייטנת אמא - אני והמשפחה שלי

Then we played a few times, of course, and I'm proud to say that even now, 2 weeks later, it's still one of the favorite games for all the family members.

Then we made secret notebooks. Each got a simple notebook, and I laid on the table lots and lots of scrap goodies, that usually are off limits for them. Half an hour later they each had a notebook decorated exactly like they wanted it to be. Now, the idea of a secret notebook is very simple - they can write (or draw) anything they want. It can be something that is just too difficult to say out loud or just something they want to tell Mom or Dad. Then they place it on Mom or Dad's pillow. Mom or Dad then reply back and place it back on the kid's pillow.

קייטנת אמא - אני והמשפחה שלי

Last thing we made that day was a family phone book for each, with numbers for Mom, Dad, grandmothers, uncles and aunties and some friends as well. 

קייטנת אמא - אני והמשפחה שלי


Have a successful, interesting and pleasant school year!

2 comments:

  1. These are lovely ideas! I especially like the secret notebooks - brilliant way of getting your children to tell you things they may be afraid to talk about!

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    1. Thanks :)
      My big boy never tells us anything that happened in school, so I'm hoping this will help us communicating with him...

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