Dear Little and Very Little Ones! I hope your days are filled with play, moving, listening to tales and playing music. Hopefully, we will be able to spend time in nature, go walking, hiking or playing on the playgrounds soon. Till then, I am giving you some more ideas on what to play at home.
You already have different kinds of paper balls from last week. If they have got overused,
you can re-make them and we can start the game.

You will also need a softer and a harder pillow – stand on one of it and try to throw the balls
while you keep your balance. For example, you can aim at the entrance door. You can stick
a picture or puppet on the door with tape and try shooting it. How many balls could hit it?
Put as many walnuts/peanuts/stones/bids into a plastic bottle as, using two fingers.

Then we can try shooting with our legs. Lift the balls – one by one of course – with your two
feet facing each other, and aim again. How many balls hit the goal now? Put as many seeds
in another bottle and then you can make the comparison. Which bottle contains more seeds,
which one fewer? Which one is louder or quieter if shaken?

If you have some more pillows, place them on the ground as a pillow-snake and walk on it. A
little help is useful sometimes. If you could do it, place the pillows a bit further from each
other – it makes the snake a bit longer and the exercise a bit harder. What about help? It is
natural if it is required at the beginning.
Then at the end, clean everything up. First, put the soft pillows to their places, then the
smaller ones, then the coloured ones, then the hard one or the white one. We already have a
tidy room. The balls can go into a box or into the bin.
The bottles are good to keep as we have and we will share more games with them.
I wish you a pleasant time,
Kati Kárpáti

This article is translated by Anita Nagy.
Click here for the Hungarian version.