DAY 11 #StayAtHome Journal
Today, we cooked an interesting meal: Polenta in layers with cheese and bacon. It is my grandmother’s recipe, an easy-to-make meal witch tastes great. You can find the recipe below.
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DAY 10 #StayAtHome Journal
Today, we played a lot of Pengoloo board game for kids, an award winning wooden skill building memory color recognition game we really enjoy and absolutely recommend. Pengoloo by Blue Orange enhances kids’ memory, color recognition, visualization and fine motor skills. The game also strengthens kids’ strategy and social skills.
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DAY 9 #StayAtHome Journal
I had to explain to my daughter how brainstorming works. To do this, II chose to use three main brainstorming techniques instead of the classical free writing. These are: listing, concept mapping (or mind mapping) and sketching. These three techniques are all very effective when trying to teach little children how to brainstorm.
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DAY 8 #StayAtHome Journal
There are days, just like this one, when we don’t do countless activities, but they are beautiful and relaxing because they represent quality time together.
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DAY 7 #StayAtHome Journal
We started our day playing a school role game and learnt to draw various objects. Of course, I was the teacher and our girl was the student. We used chalk on a blackboard. Afterwards we played a Guess Who game, this time using our Lego Minifigures.
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DAY 6 #StayAtHome Journal
I love reading and I used to read stories to my daughter since she was very little. Now, at 5yo, she won’t sleep until we read our bedtime story. At noon we read a lovely book which I also warmly recommend: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss.
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DAY 5 #StayAtHome Journal
Daddy recently bought himself a Xiaomi Mi Robot Builder STEM Toy a few months ago. It has a 3-in-1 design that allows you to build a robot, a plane and a dinosaur. Although it’s a toy for ages 10 and up and the kids can learn how to program it through a series of tutorials on the Mi Robot Builder App, we thought it was a good idea to just use it as a building toy until our daughter gets older.
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DAY 4 #StayAtHome Journal
We started the day with a drawing, cutting and coloring activity. Our daughter asked me to draw a few cars inspired by our HotWheels car collection for her. She wanted to make a landscape with a road. We cut the drawn cars and our girl glued them on the road. The Hotwheels cars had to face the right direction.
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DAY 3 #StayAtHome Journal
Today we got up early. After our morning routine, we printed, cut and played a new game we found online: Catch a bug!. Later – because our daughter got bored of all her board games – we thought about inventing a new, fun board game to play.
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DAY 2 #StayAtHome Journal
Before noon, we came up with an idea for a new game. Because both Daddy and I work in IT, we thought about making a no-screen coding game for kids. Inspired by Code-a-Pillar, we tried to create a simple, yet entertaining educational game. We built it using a lot of water bottle caps.
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