OK Mom says:
In order to protect the child's vision, everyone pays more and more attention to the outdoor activities of the baby. But only let the children play scooters and bicycles downstairs, the days are long or there are not many friends; take the baby around the community to walk around, feel that there is nothing to do...
My good friend Xiaoyu's mother, who is engaged in nature education (that is, using everything in nature to do cognitive enlightenment, science education, etc.) said that it is actually because we have never had the patience to carefully visit the community.
Nature hides countless treasures, and every plant and tree can be turned into the most interesting toy in the hands of children, and they enjoy spending the afternoon tirelessly.
Xiaoyu's mother said that the greenery of the community where her family lives is very general, and the people and cars are not separated, but the child happily seems to be looking for the forest and shouts downstairs every day.
After a serious conversation with her, I was very rewarding. So I asked her to share with you how to play with nature in front of your home and do "nature observation" that can be operated by children over 2 years old.
Text/Little Rain Mom
Since her daughter started a long standby vacation, she always stared out the window from time to time, after all, she always took her around before.
I couldn't resist proposing, "Baby, let's hang out, shall we?" ”
"But Mom, now the community restricts access, you can only go out once every two days, this opportunity is still left to Grandpa to buy vegetables!"
"We don't leave the community door, so we go to water the small tree downstairs, you haven't seen it for a long time, maybe it has sprouted?"
When I got downstairs, I found that the outside world had changed long ago.
Let your daughter see the falling petals, and let her collect some to take home and sprinkle on the painting
I took her through the leaf pile and found a swarm of ants busy moving, and my daughter was particularly surprised
In the small talk, the daughter touched the grass and counted the flowers, and the enthusiasm grew stronger.
Nature is like this, and any little creature can awaken the heart of a child.
Since then, going downstairs to take a look and take a look has become her daily routine, and her mother is not still dragging her grandmother out, and the small grass downstairs is half an afternoon.
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Walk into the "little forest" in front of your home
Be Nature's "Voldemort"
Because I was trapped in the community, I demarcated a small lawn with less than three parking spaces in front of my home as our "fantasy small forest", and I went down every three or five minutes to walk around, my daughter and I were infinitely close to the ground, smelling and touching the west, and the neighbors who passed by couldn't help asking: "What treasure is this digging?" ”
Our family lives in a traditional old community, the green belt has almost been encroached upon into a "parking space", the variety of green plants is lackluster, and the "small forest" of my daughter and I is actually a wasteland from a distance.
But leaning down and looking closer, it was a completely different world.
Under the pile of fallen leaves, a small forest of mushrooms is hidden.
The snails, which rushed home from school, left their shells in the classroom, just turning into small white houses for ants to shelter from the rain.
Ye Zi couldn't find his mother anymore, and there was still a drop of sparkling tears hanging from his body.
Sorrel is the world's most beloved grass, the face, torso, limbs are all loving shapes.
After a long period of fixed-point observation, you will find that this small grass will change its appearance in a few days. The same is the Jin vegetable, the white flowers that grow in the northwest corner, and the purple flowers that live in the southeast corner; the same is the wild grass, and a few of them have gradually grown into the appearance of trees, and there are branches and stems that are also obliquely out, so don't underestimate the grass, although the figure is small, it also has a dream of soaring into the sky.
Just studying the new gossip on this grass every day can consume a little half a day.
Although the objects available for observation are rather barren, the following "grassy guests" can come across them whenever they go:
moss
In some damp corners, there will always be a group of dwarfs of the plant kingdom who use their vigorous and grand power to smash the iron locks of winter. They made a new green on the dry skin of the big tree, and added a clump of furry little heads to the hard surface of the rock.
My daughter especially likes to go to the roadside paths and the crevices of the floor tiles to find these little elves in green hats to see what new territories they have "encroached on", and they will take on different shapes on rainy days. Occasionally, he pinched a ball and gently stroked it in the palm of his hand, as if shaking hands with the slender claws of moss.
weed
Every time I came to our little territory, my daughter would ask me to take a "one-inch head photo" of each weedy weed, and each photo could give a good reason, such as the leaves of this grass like love, this grass like fireworks, and this little star.
Every once in a while, the old residents will say goodbye, and the new residents will quietly sprout long leaves. There are also long-term residents here, some of them will develop into a "big cabbage", and some will continue to swoop their heads, and suddenly appear to be "standing out from the crowd".
I asked my daughter to record their growth and changes, such as helping the grass to measure its head and see who was the "tallest man" in the family, and my daughter felt particularly accomplished.
tree
Trees are skyscrapers hiding too many elves, and from the first floor to the 101st floor, there will be residents of different identities: the lowest floor is always a small world of fallen leaves and moss; further up, ants are looking for food on the tender green leaf buds; and the side-grown mushrooms are like comfortable Simmons, which can make watermelon worms sleep well on it.
Every time her daughter grows taller, she can look up one more layer, and in the lush canopy, there are hidden worlds of many manners, and she has always been very curious.
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In-depth development of entertainment projects
After a long period of static observation, I also expect the child to move more and increase the amount of activity moderately.
Although the whole community species is barren, but often can pick up the fruit of the innocent seed, or brought a huge surprise to the daughter, take home can make a natural "hand sanitizer", find a small pit outdoors, with a little "vegetable leaves", and then find a small shovel, just like cooking stir-fry, this kind of family game, always attract some passing children to gather and ask my daughter can join together, she feels better about herself.
Because dynamic gameplay can have a more sustainable effect, I found a more interesting game - Seed Bomb.
A seed bomb is a seed that is buried in nutrient soil, mixed with the right amount of water, and kneaded into a small ball. After completion, you can go to the community to deliver.
Saying that it was a drop and taking the name of "bomb" is actually an expectation. After the release, I always feel that my heart has been tied, and I want to see if there is an "explosion" every day - the growth of seedlings.
In order to make our "bombs" bloom everywhere and be traced, I took a picture of the community map with my mobile phone and encouraged my daughter to take a picture of the "community map" herself.
After that, every time she dropped a "bomb", she would make a mark on the map. Later, we can also follow the mark to see where the last "seed bomb" will "explode".
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Playing with nature, many "problems" are not healed
In fact, the power that nature can bring to children is endless. I myself will embark on the path of nature education, and I have also experienced the experience of "being awakened by nature" by the power of my daughter several times.
For example, when my daughter was about one and a half years old, she "refused to walk" and her bad problem was cured by nature.
At that time, although the one-and-a-half-year-old daughter had long learned to walk and could chase her mother indoors, she refused to go down to the ground when she got outside.
One day to take her to her grandmother's hometown to play, there is a big forest nearby, the winter scene of the forest clearing is covered with a thick pile of fallen leaves, the daughter actually took the initiative to ask to go to the ground, she slowly walked into the forest, clicking and stepping on the carpet woven of fallen leaves.
At first, it was still hesitant, but the back walked steadily, like a fawn dexterously sneaking around, playing with itself for most of the day. Seeing my daughter, who was suddenly willing to walk on the ground and play freely, I was so moved that I wanted to cry.
For example, when my daughter was two and a half years old, she was still very timid and often hung up on me like a kangaroo. The first time I ran 10 meters away, it was also with the help of nature.
One day I took her to the park, she stuck to my arms in boredom, and I looked at the fallen leaves on the ground and made a clever move: "Baby, let's play a game of falling leaves to find my mother!" You see, these fallen baby leaves, all fell from the mother's body, you see which tree mother they belong to, just pick it up to its mother's side! ”
The child's eyes immediately lit up, leaned down to pick the leaves, and ran around with them to find the mother tree. Not only did the whole process not require me to follow closely, but he also ran the farthest distance in my life.
Later, I always wondered why children have a natural desire to be close to nature, and when they go to nature, they are so relaxed and enjoyable, and a word from the teacher in a certain training gave me the answer:
"Every infant who has just arrived on Earth, their physical and mental state also inherits the primate instincts, and our ancestors originally lived in nature. The younger the child, the more able they are to unleash this instinct, and the more sensitive they are to nature than adults. ”
So I did feel that my daughter could talk to nature all the time, and had the ability to "empathize with all things" that we adults have.
When she plays in the park, she is reluctant to step on the lawn, and she will feel that stepping on small flowers will hurt; when she sees the garbage on the lawn, she will frown for a while, "Mom, why do people like to litter?" How dirty is the home of the grass like this! (None of this is what environmental education I've done for her.) ）
I also like to play the "natural role-playing" game, two days ago she said that she is a small snail, carrying a thick quilt on the floor crawling on the way it is simply wonderful, crawling tired and hiding in the quilt and saying that she went home to sleep.
And I, a middle-aged woman who has little energy to ride the wind and waves, has also made great strides in "observation".
I used to think that the so-called keen observation should be innate. But when I walked casually to a grass that was shaved like a "small flat head" and could find a grain of tongquan grass the size of rice, I was surprised.
The mobile phone added macro clips are still not clear, because it is too small.
And often used in the road to adhere to the isolation belt of the dwarf holly, one day I actually found that it will still bloom, the flower is white and round, pure and lovely look, yes, I lived for more than thirty years to find that such a beautiful flower is close at hand, and the previous dwarf holly in my heart, probably the same as the ordinary plastic isolation pier.
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My favorite seed, or the maple tree fell off the wing fruit, stretched wings like dragonflies, every time I see it can't help but click a few souvenirs, and then tell my daughter about the wisdom of the tree mother: the growth of the tree needs plenty of space and sunlight, can not squeeze together, so the tree mother always hopes that her child can fly as far as possible!
For children, the depth of exploration is far more important than the breadth, visiting a thousand mountains is not as good as knowing a mountain, we think that walking around the world is to take children to broaden their horizons, in fact, what remains in their hearts is just a cloud of smoke.
Waiting for the rabbit at the door of the house, watching a flower in its entirety from sprouting to withering, will bring them more profound enlightenment about life.