The activities listed here would help you in making the new year extra special for your kid. Also, you can ignite the different abilities in them with the upcoming year and urge them to shift towards positive from any kind of negatives.

Arrange a countdown session 

There are fewer things more exciting than building up a countdown session. You would want your child to be as excited as possible for new year’s eve. It would keep him/her closer to the importance of bringing positive changes in life with the new year. The countdown session could be a video or a speaking clock. You can create a countdown clock using paper plates with your kids for a fun activity too.

Dance party with friends 

Let the kids be the hero for the day. The more they will enjoy the better they will understand the emergence of a coming year. You can call their friends and parents and set up a dance stage for everyone. Some exciting and chilling music would set up the night and make it memorable for the kids. Preschools are an example of building a bond among kids and your dance party would be doing that as well.

Singing in Karaoke Session 

As they dance their heart outs, move them to the singing stage and let them sing together. Singing and dancing are undoubtedly the two best ways to let a child be active and relaxed at the same time. Karaoke builds a sense of understanding and going with the rhythm in children. It would turn out to be a fun and learning session for the kids.

Try to review the year that went  

It is important to know the mistakes that you and your kids made during the year. Reviewing the whole year on the last evening would be very helpful in being better in the years to come. Arrange a slide show or record videos stating some instances that need a change. You can include mistakes that your kid made at preschool.

Prepare favorite food together

Cook food that your kids love and include them in the cooking practice. It encourages some activities and makes them realize the importance of food and its preparation. Their favorite meal would make their evening extra special for sure. 

Great time for a favorite show

Set up a movie or show date together and watch what they love. New Year is a great time to foster family bonding as well.

Midnight Resolutions 

It is very important to build up some resolutions for the coming year, especially for a young kid. It is the best way to teach them that you should move towards some healthy habits with every new year and leave behind the negatives. Parents can set up examples by talking about their negative habits and taking resolutions from the front. Once your kids develop the habit of shifting towards the good with changing years, they would inculcate several habits that would stay in them forever.

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1. Helps The Kids Know About Their Roots And Culture

Narrating stories from your childhood days and by other family members helps your kid to understand family ancestry better. The stories of various religious festivals or family functions help the child to know about various family traditions.

2. Help Your Kid Learn Good Values

Kids love to follow their favorite characters and thus by telling them some good stories which have moral teachings, will also help them to learn good values. Qualities like honesty, courage, wisdom can be imbibed at a young age with storytelling abilities.

3. Better Listening Skills

Young children have very limited attention as they can get distracted easily very soon. By engaging kids in storytelling, you help them to work on their attention and to be more attentive and become good listeners.

4. Enhanced Vocabulary

Listening to or reading stories can help children to learn new words and phrases. Helps them to get a better knowledge and understanding of the language. This is one of the best ways to teach your kids articulation of the new words and their suitable usage.

5. Helps In Building Better Memory

You may help your child to build up better memory by asking them to narrate the story after a few days or by asking them about the characters of the story. It will help the child to memorize things and become more attentive.

6. Helps In Channelizing Imagination Power and Creativity

Listening to some good stories helps the child to imagine and create the characters of the story, or places and the plot. It helps their imagination to think freely and visualize things easily without a visual medium.

7. Helps In Academics

Storytelling helps the child to understand things better, and thus children learn to concentrate and understand the various subjects in the class as well.

8. Communication Skills

Reading or listening to a story can help kids to improve their communication by listening to new words. By asking several questions or to know about things they did not understand. This ability makes them communicate better and become more confident in outstanding a conversation.

9. Expands Their Horizons

Stories tell the children about different kinds of characters and various cultures and traditions of the world. This makes them aware of the ethnicities and languages.

10. Helps Children To Deal With Difficult Situations

Whenever kids face difficult situations the various learning experiences or qualities learned from the stories may help them to find a solution for their problem to lead a happy and prosperous life.

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Rakshabandhan is an Indian Festival to celebrate the innate bond between brothers and sisters. This time, Rakshabandhan will redefine itself. At one hand where brothers and sisters had been together in the COVID-19 lockdown, each one will have a special Rakhi celebration. On the other hand, there might be some who will be a part of essential service providers or have work that shall not allow them to be at home or with their sisters this Rakshabandhan. Still, this Rakhi is going to be special. Special in the way how brothers shall create Rakhi gifts in a time where they have to avoid stepping out to purchase gifts. It will be special for sisters in the way of how they replace chocolates and sweets bought from the market with the home maderelishingkheer, laddoos, burfi or ‘chashni’ dipped jalebis. Here are a few ways in which Rakhi can be made unforgettable with numerous ways of bonding. Here are a few things brothers and sisters individually can do to make each other feel special:

1. Make handmade cards

Both brothers and sisters can make handmade cards with all the material that they have at home. Try expressing your feeling for your brother/sister in every space of that Rakhi greeting. This shall touch their hearts deeper than what a bought from market card will ever do.

2. Make or bake delicacies

This Rakshabandhan, sisters may cook. Kids can cook recipes with the help of their mothers. Make your sibling’s favorite sweets this festive season and see them enjoy every bite of it. Bake cakes, make burfis or coconut laddoos. Pick tasty yet easy to make recipes.

3. Make handmade gifts

Handmade gifts always remain close to the heart. What if you couldn’t but a dress for your brother/ sister? Alongwith the card, show some creativity and prepare a handmade gift like a wind chime, CD art, painting or simply design a photo frame and put your sibling’s picture inside that.

4. Arrange home dine-in

This time, although restaurants in many regions are opening, we still should keep safe and try staying at home as far as possible. But, you might also be missing out on dining in with your siblings, especially on the Rakhi eve. You may have some fun here by making any favorite dish you both enjoy. Sit on a dining table and chit chat while you grab your fav meals.

What to do if you are posting a Rakhi?

Sisters who might not be able to meet their brothers this Rakshabandhan can write a letter to their brothers. Although, in this era of mails and messages, we have been more connected on the social networking apps. But, a handwritten letter does the actual talking and is always more expressive.

Be keen and find ways to make this Rakhi all the more special despite restrictions arising out of COVID-19 outbreak. Bachpan Play School always teaches kids to stick to their roots while balancing with the immediate environment. We are also in touch with our kids and teachers for maintaining continuity in learning processes so, we know how kids are celebrating festivals differently at home this time. Bachpan also encourages kids to do craft and participate in activities which are taught to them in virtual classrooms.

Participate in our Rakshabandhan Contest starting soon on all our Social Media handles (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter &PriPrefect App) and win exciting gifts for your little one.

Again, Happy Rakshabandhan folks!

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