Nurturing Human Beans

Many of us have been unable to visit loved ones this past year and a half and this is a fun idea you can do to help kids spend some quality time with loved ones over a video call. You can set up a regular weekly or monthly call where they do an activity together. It could be anything from reading a book out loud, cooking, making funny faces on video chat, drawing, playing online chess etc etc
It works well to pick activities that the loved one is passionate about because it makes it all the more exciting for them to share their enthusiasm and knowledge! Our loved one enjoys making fermented foods so that's what we did!

Hi guys, hope you're all doing well! We will be emailing out the final part of our kindness booklet tommorow on the sub topic kindness to one's self. We will also attach the entire kindness booklet with all three parts so if you've missed out on any of them you can download and print the whole thing. If your not part of our email list already please subscribe now so tomorrow you can receive the whole booklet, much love to you all ♥️

Activity : Kind notes on marbled paper.

Kind words on a hand made card always warm the heart!

The first part of our kindness activity booklet has been sent to our subscribers! We will be sending out the booklet in three bite size pieces...the first part is about being kind in the community, the second is about showing kindness within the family and the third is about being kind to oneself.

Please keep in mind that this is a DOING book, it is filled with activities and more importantly it is a guiding tool for deeper conversations that can be had with our little ones.

If you’d like to receive these free materials you can subscribe via the link in our profile 🙌🏽

The first part of our new booklet on the topic of kindness has just been sent to our subscribers! If you haven’t subscribed to receive our free activity booklets you can do so following the link in our profile. Sometimes our emails may not land directly in your inbox so be sure to search for them and move our correspondence to your inbox to make them easy to find next time. You can also always contact us via email on [email protected] or dm us. If you’d like to share photos of activities you are doing from the booklets please tag us 💛

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“Even though we are home, or have restrictions on where we can go and who we can see, we can try and make this a happy and joyful time by remembering that it is love for others in our community that is keeping us home, use this as inspiration to decorate and color a loving, kind and radiant heart.” Excerpt from the love during Covid activity booklet.

Hi! Have you subscribed to receive your Love activity booklet yet? If you have we hope that you have had time to open and print it so you can get the little hands in your household busy with some reflection and ideas for action especially during this time of physical distancing. This is one of the pages from the booklet that can be decorated and displayed as a reminder that our individual choices make big differences! 💛

In order to have conversations about racism and the construct of race we need to give our children an understanding about skin colors and why the skin we live in is different to begin with. We have learnt that suggesting to children that they ignore people’s skin color or dismiss differences with the objective of teaching them about our inherent oneness and unity, can actually be detrimental as it does not prepare our children for the complexities that surround the topic. Allowing our children to explore differences in our skin color and to ask questions of us gives them a a solid foundation to build a proper understanding of diversity and our inherent oneness. It can also give our children the tools that are necessary in identifying biased messaging.

Please note: The activity is an aid to open space for communication and questions.

Activity: A beautiful community

1. Let’s create a beautiful community! A beautiful community is diverse. To make the members of the community you can use cardboard, paper or air drying clay.
2. Cut out 1 paper person template and use it to create 6/7 more in your chosen medium puncture a hole into the hands to allow for connecting them.
3. Using various shades of paint or coloring pencils, making sure to include a variation, color and paint the people whilst discussing, some potential discussion points: why do you think our skin colors are different? After children answer, talk further and explain melanin. Can you identify which is your skin color? Are the skin colors in our family exactly the same? Do you know anyone who has skin color that is different to yours? Do you think this community would be as beautiful if we only used one color? Why?
4. Once dry assemble by joining the people together, potential discussion points: how can we make sure people who look different in our community are connected in a meaningful way? If our community is not beautifully diverse like this one, what can we do to change that?

We used the potato stamps to make some wrapping paper for the hugs we will be posting out ☼ see for more ideas on potato printing. Fun and from resources you probable already have in the cupboard 🙌🏽

The ‘ways to show love’ word search activity sheet has been emailed to anyone who has subscribed to receive our free printable activity booklets but if you have not subscribed yet you can download the word search from our website now the link is in profile ♡

Used the potatoes to print up