Summer holidays are here and so are summer colds. Even before the holidays started my son got a fever and while he has been sick, the two of us have spend our days indoors trying to make the time as interesting as we can. Since it has been 35 degrees outside, a week inside a cool house has not been such a bad idea after all. We have been playing with LEGO and cars of course, but also doing a lot of origami, always a favorite of his. My son has found a passion in folding, cutting and using a lot of sticky tape to make small artwork.
The most fun time however, has been when we have been doing word games together. My son’s favorite language activity so far is playing word hunt. Before I go to pick him up from the kindergarten bus, I sometimes prepare a little treasure hunt at home. I hide notes around the house and on each note there are simple instructions where to find the next note. So my son tries to read and searches and reads and searches and eventually he ends up finding his snack! Sometimes when we walk home from the bus he ask me if we are going to do the treasure hunt today, so I believe he enjoys the activity, making the preparations worth all the while.
During our sick days we have taken this word hunt game to the next level. We have been taking turns to write messages to each other that we then have been trying to decipher (both of us struggling and having fun together seeing each trying to make out what is written). We started to write normal words, then wrote funny small sentences and finally ended up hiding letters inside scrambled drawings making it a virtual word hunt.
Since my son is quite back to his normal self now, next post will be about summer holidays outside our house. Until then.
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