It is always a pleasure to involve kids in household activities. As parents, you get to spend time with them and children enjoy helping out. They take pride when the adults entrust them with responsibility. It is a more effective way to teach them how to handle different crises. You can certainly use this technique to be around your kid during the weekends and teach them about various household activities.
Nowadays parents complain that they are unable to spend time with their daughters and sons. As a result, a rift is being created in the bond. You can simply engage in decorating the house with your kids and initiate a fruitful and long conversation with them along with fun times.
Life can simply get too tedious and boring both for adults and kids. These are the ways you can rejuvenate and refresh your mind and body. By involving in creativity and performing a task as a family you can simultaneously make use of the creative minds of your kids as well as learn to be around them more often. Hence here are some opportunities for you to bond over your shared activities with kids at home.
1. Clean the mess
If you involve your kids in cleaning the cupboard and teach them how to do it right, it'll simply benefit them in the future. Clean the wardrobe, fold the clothes, and help them how to use the washing machine. Systematic and a fun approach towards finishing the chores will teach them to be more responsible. Other small activities may involve putting out the clothes under the sun for drying and taking them inside in the evening. Assign small duties of dusting the shelves and the furniture as a part of their daily activities.
2. Change of covers
Ask your kids to help you choose covers for the cushions and pillows. Then join hands in replacing the fabric. Ask them to help you out while you change the bedsheet and put up the fresh curtains. You can get involved in activities like sewing new covers for cushions. Under an adult's supervision, allow your kids to learn the basics of knitting and thread work. You may teach them how to hold a needle right and different types of stitching. If you think you do not have much knowledge in this field, make sure you collectively watch a video with your children and learn the art.
3. Choose the paints
Once in a while ask your kids for suggestions on the kind of colours they like or types of comfort couches they love to sit on. Little encouragement on your part will help them feel that they are a prominent part of the family. It is extremely essential for kids to feel that they are an important component of the house and are indispensable to its people. Moreover, they will be able to develop a character that is stern and respects personal choices. It will help them to have a particular taste in culture or art and help them to distinguish between finesse and basics.
So next time you are planning to repaint the house, ask your daughter or son to paint along. Give them small duties like carrying the brushes or holding the step ladder while you finish the job. Periodically allow them to paint a portion of the wall and appreciate them for their efforts.
Kids are sometimes bound to be clumsy and delay your process. But do not get angry and exercise patience and love.
4. Allow them to choose
When you are putting up wallpaper on the walls of their room or renovating the floor and the sitting arrangements, keep in mind that kids have preferences too. Ask them about their favourite characters from books and shows. Use a home decor style that you feel comfortable around. Too much aristocracy may destroy the innocent and merry nature of the house. They may like a certain kind of bedding or a shelf which is easier to reach for books. So while redecorating their rooms make sure you consider their comfort and convenience.
5. Teach them hacks
You can use the weekends for fixing the garage and teaching your kids how to renovate a certain part of the house. Teach them how you can build racks from the basic wooden planks stored in the garden shed. Teach them how to dig the soil and plant small flower pots. You can also take this opportunity to educate them about the essential hygiene that needs to be maintained in the house.
Engage in conversations that will lead to some product knowledge. You can take their help in rearranging the showpieces or building new ones like a candle from wax and how to make DIY home decors. This can include using spare bottles to fill them with fairy lights and then you may ask your child to paint them with acrylics to finish the job. This shall help you to enhance the creative skills of your kid.