NewDo: Creative Learning at Home for a Six Year Old

A six-year-old Chef in the Making

Meet Jayden, now studying from home in the greater Denver area

Families all  over the nation are now challenged with assisting with their children's education through remote study or their own creativity.

Jayden’s remote learning started today, as Spring Break vacation has ended. Her parents are busy sorting through all the emails from her teacher, librarian, music teacher, etc. It will be a challenge to keep up on. Fortunately, Jayden's mom was a primary school a teacher (now at home with her two children), and she provides a wonderful structure to Jayden's day.

How does this six-year old see herself?

All about Jayden

Jayden loves the pigeon books so she read “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus” and then she and her mom constructed a snack out of items they had at home to go along with the story. 

Her favorite series, currently

Jayden picked most of the ingredients with a little help from mom with the blue food coloring for the pigeon. 

The aspiring chef

She used brioche toast, hummus, a cracker, gelt, Fruit Loops, a chocolate chip eye and goldfish pieces nose.

yumm....

Another artist, in her own right! 
Go Jayden! And go parents for encouraging the creativity and making the best of our enforced at-home time!


A little bit about Jayden

Jayden is an active just-turned-six year old. Her favorite color is pink, although her second choice of colors tends to shift around. She loves to dance, play soccer, sing, and she can beat her Nonna when they play concentration card games. She is very good at reading, and had many books memorized at a young edge, so the reader couldn't skip sections without a reprimand. Now, she has learned to read herself and does this for her little brother who she reads to every morning. One of her passions is anything to do with cooking and food preparation. She has a variety of food-related toys and seems destined to be someone of note in the world of cuisine.

Jayden reading to her brother

ToDo Challenge: Art with a Toddler

Creativity with Art: Toddler-Style

Meet Fiona, from the greater Denver area

Fiona, Two Years Old

It is never too early to encourage our little ones to be creative. They are so free in their mind, and everything they do is amazing. If only, as adults, we could adopt their mindset and not worry about how good our work is. Fiona is fearless. She likes to try everything.




Here you see Fiona painting in her back yard. She is trying out the new easel that her Nonna sent to her for her birthday. She likes to dress the part (notice the artist smock),

Two Year-old Artist

Nonna loves watching her creativity and adding some of her own to it, by taking one of Fiona's early art pieces (with a little help from Mom) and turned it into a fabric using Photoshop and Spoonflower (digital printing) in the process.

Fabric designed by Fiona with Mommy's help and Nonna's translation to a repeating pattern.
Printed by Spoonflower in North Carolina

A little bit about Fiona

Fiona is an aspiring artist who lives in the greater Denver area. She likes to think about what she does which you can tell because she moves into a complete-focus state when she is busy. She loves to be read to, likes to poke and push things, and keeps busy at all times. She also likes her quiet time, flipping through story books, as if she was reading them. Fiona turned two this week. Her parents are encouraging of all her activities and were reading Harry Potter to her in her first week of life.

Fiona, always, always checking things out.

Zen in the Yard during Challenging Times
During this 'at home' world we now live in, Fiona's dad created this Zen area in their yard. A lot of brush was removed, and now the area is being used for yoga (for Mom, Dad, and Fiona), reflection, and quiet time. At present this space is now deep in snow, when three days ago, it was a lovely afternoon. Welcome to Denver spring weather.