komala Aunty - 1 & 2yrs - sept 21 - parents get creative with their children

Todays session was producing something instead of consuming activities. Parents were asked to play or do something with their child with one thing they found in their purse. Few children were really enjoying the object which they found in their mothers purse and few mothers got clues as to what to carry in their purse :-) . It was interesting to observe one child explore one hair clip that it found in the mothers purse in various different ways. She held it up crossly and was saying "bird" to her mother. she tried to put it on to her hair, feel the teeths of the clip and was pretending it to be a butterfly. One child was feeling the comb . My observation was that all the children were first very kinesthetically exploring the object and then came various different ways. later I gave them different objects to play with the child which promotes different kinds of development . Again I was pointing at the mother who was incorporating various intelligences into the way she was playing with the object. First she sang and was counting with the object, she later made a structure out of the object, suddenly one child got attracted to the object and wanted that object for the visual representation attracted her more.....

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