Organize Home Educational Workshops
Home educational workshops are a way to establish and strengthen bonds, while fostering other cognitive abilities. To do this, you must know how to organize and plan your family leisure time very well.
In this article, we explain the benefits of putting this into practice and we propose some fun home educational workshops.
“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.”
– Barbara Bush –
Benefits of home educational workshops
Organizing home educational workshops is the best way to make the most of family time. This has many different benefits for mothers, fathers, and children, since it:
- Promotes maturational development in children.
- Encourages personal growth.
- Provides learning opportunities.
- Prevents antisocial and risky behaviors in children.
- Facilitates family communication.
- Strengthens the affective and emotional bonds between family members.
Therefore, having fun at home makes children grow and develop in a healthy, balanced, and happy way.
“There is a great work/home life balance that you need to achieve. If you let your home life eat into your work life, you lose motivation quickly and if work life imposes too much on your family time, then your family time becomes less satisfactory.”
– Dane Taylor –
How to organize home educational workshops
Home educational workshops are good ways to spend quality family time on a cold or rainy day, since you don’t need to leave your home. Therefore, below, we propose four types of workshops that are very inexpensive, enriching, and easy to organize.
Reading workshop
A reading workshop consists of gathering all the family members in a bright and cozy room, each one choosing a story, a book, a comic book, or a magazine to read during a certain time.
After this time, each family member summarizes what they’ve read to the rest. This is an ideal practice to encourage reading habits from childhood.
Creative writing workshop
Creative writing workshops consist of establishing a family space in which all the members can freely develop their imagination. The main goal of this workshop is to create an original story as a family.
To make this more educational, you can choose a specific theme, such as environmental protection, the importance of friendship, and respect for diversity, etc. This way, children learn to work as a team, while they learn certain ethical and social values.
Arts and crafts workshop
Through art and crafts workshops, you can teach your children to express themselves creatively and without limits, practicing their manual skills and motor coordination. It’s useful to propose the creation of artistic works, recycling and reusing materials, such as rolls of paper, cardboard boxes, and plastic cans, among others.
Recycling workshop
A recycling workshop is perfect for instilling environmental values in children, so that they grow up aware of this issue. In this workshop, each family member must be in charge of designing and creating a recycling bin, taking into account the colors of the different types of containers and the materials you have to put inside each of them.
When everyone finishes, they have to show the others their results. In addition, you can do an activity in which both children and parents demonstrate their recycling knowledge, distributing different waste in the bins you made.
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