Children pick up on new things really quickly and childhood can be the perfect time for getting children interested in science and history for instance. One way you can spark a thirst for education in your child is to ensure that you make the playtimes educational and present ideas to the child in a fun and simple way.

Here are some ideas on how you can make playtime educational yet fun.

Paint In The Nature

You can make playtime educational when you take the playtime outside. Teaching your child about nature and different animals is great if you take some paper and pencils outside. Make the child paint the different things they see and then teach them some interesting facts and information about them.

This a fantastic way to make the child feel connected with nature as well. You should try to teach them how to make use of nature by going berry picking for example and also make sure they learn to value the environment.

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Ask Questions During Playtime

No matter what game you are playing with your child keep engaging them with different questions related to what you are both doing. This will help the child in thinking about different things and explain to them as well as engage them into questioning and challenging everyday notions.

If you are building toy castles or houses ask what the building is used for, who lives there and what do they do. The questions don’t need to be about teaching the child anything too massive but the idea is to just make the child question and solve problems together with your help. She Knows article also explains that this sort of questioning will help the child improve their creativity and imagination.

Create Your Own Stories

You can also make playtime educational by challenging children to come up with their own stories and educational videos for instance. If your children are old enough you can provide them with a video recorder and allow them to film with it. Edit their video clips together into short movies for instance.

These movies can be about a lot of different things like their journey to school or taking care of the plants.

With smaller children you can use this great idea posted in the Street Directory. Cut out some interesting and fun images from magazines with your child and then ask them to put them in an order that makes up a story. This is a wonderful way to challenge the child’s imagination and also teach them about different people and cultures as an example.

Toys To Tell Stories Of The Past

Of course you can also incorporate education into the playtime through telling stories to the child. If you just read from a book children might lose interest quickly, especially if the book isn’t engaging with pictures. You can make things like historical stories a lot more fun if you incorporate the stories into playing with dolls.

A Girl For All Time store offers a lot of dolls, and books and novels to go together with these dolls that can give your child a window into the past.

Julia is a mother of two who loves to walk in the nature with her kids and discover new places to visit. She is fond of animals and they currently have two rescue-dogs running around their country home.

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