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It's autumn in the yard, which means that it is a hot season in the garden, vegetable garden and dachas: we prepare plots for winter, dig in, apply fertilizers, cut trees, wrap up frost-resistant plants. And children try to help us, and often this help is too active. And there is an idea to keep the children busy with something useful, at the same time so that they are in front of our eyes and do not actively "help" in their main work. But for this you need to think in advance about what the child will do and prepare in advance "technical equipment" for the baby (and not only).
Help in the country
So the first thing. We entrust the children with work according to their age: to hold something, bring something, help to clean up inventory that is not useful, and so on. Important: do not force your child to do too difficult or monotonous work. The child will quickly get tired of such things, in addition, the monotonous occupation will soon bore the little fidget and there is a high probability that the baby will quit the job without completing it.
Provide separate tools for your child that are appropriate for their height and age. Now in children's toy stores you can buy not only the traditional and familiar rake-spatulas for sand. Very often there are rakes, shovels with a handle up to 100 cm in size, which is enough for a child up to 7-8 years old, then you can teach children to use adult garden tools.
What kind of toy tools do you need? In principle, the set is not large and will not require serious financial costs: a shovel, a rake with a long handle, copying the real ones as much as possible, but at the same time safe, a small plastic file, a toy pruner and a not very large plastic bucket. This is quite enough for a young assistant.
Collection of material for herbarium and dry bouquets
Second: instruct your child to collect leaves and flowers for a future herbarium or dry bouquet. However, this lesson requires prior preparation. Before going to the dacha from home, you will need to take an old thick magazine so that the child can fold the leaves somewhere to dry. If you prepare material for a composition of dried flowers, you will also need dry sand and a container in which the flowers and twigs covered with sand will be dried.
Let the child select the most beautiful, in his opinion, leaves, flowers and twigs. Then he will carefully, perhaps under the guidance of an adult, lay out the material between the pages of the magazine. Next, remove this journal under oppression for a few days.
For dry bouquets, flowers, grass and twigs are dried in a slightly different way. A container (jar, box, bucket) is taken, sand is poured onto the bottom (a layer of 4-5 centimeters), then carefully, with flowers and leaves down, twigs and flowers are laid. Then gently cover them with sand, holding them in an upright position by the tip of the stem. We close it tightly with a lid and leave it for a couple of weeks in a dry place so that the sand is not saturated with excess moisture. After about 2 weeks, you can take it out and use it as directed.
Collection of natural materials for crafts
You can invite your child to take a walk near the dacha (always under the supervision of adults!) And pick up acorns, cones, horse chestnuts, maple "airplanes", interesting sticks, moss, beautiful pebbles, nuts. In the near future, all this will be useful for making crafts for various competitions in kindergartens and schools. In addition, it will be an excellent evening activity for a child (consider, touch, name what the child has collected), and also useful as a counting material. Together with the child, you can calculate how much and what he scored.
Read about what you can do with your child at the dacha on a rainy day in the next article.
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