It’s been rough the past few months, and while they may not be as aware of the current issues we face, children are also bearing the brunt of being apart from their friends and being stuck at home all the time. For those of you with little ones in your lives, please remember to shower them with a little extra love this period — here are a few things that could help.
1. De Kinder Club
A European-inspired preschool education centre, De Kinder Club has been creating learning kits for parents to use with their little ones at home throughout this circuit breaker period. With a multi-disciplinary approach focusing on experiential learning, each kit contains several innovative and engaging activities for parents and children to enjoy together.
Each kit contains everything needed for parents to engage their children — materials, worksheets, lesson plans and step-by-step guides. While there are videos that can guide parents along, children aren’t required to watch any digital content, apart from fun, sing-a-long music videos!
Different learning boxes are catered to different age groups, and new themes are added every two weeks, keeping things fun and entertaining. Previous themes include the Life Cycle of a Chicken, Fluffy Sheep, Easter and Rainbow & Light! For parents who may need a little more personal time to work from home, Busy Boxes are also available that can engage kids in independent play for up to 2 hours.
More information on De Kinder Club can be found on their website, and enquiries on their Learning Kits can be made at their Facebook and Instagram.
2. Fifth Avenue Kids
Every parent wants to shower their children with pretty things, and Fifth Avenue Kids is just the place that can help. Specialising in a range of children’s clothing, toys and books, parents will be spoilt for choice when shopping for their little ones.
With a large selection of children’s books available, it’s the perfect opportunity to encourage your children to be avid readers! A variety of picture books, story books, interactive books and more are available in both English and Mandarin, many of which have been translated from Japanese, French, Polish, Spanish and Dutch.
Also available are an array of children’s apparel fit for every little prince and princess. With plenty of outfits to choose from, play dress-up with your little one every day of the week!
To browse the full catalogue, visit Fifth Avenue Kids here and stay updated with their Facebook and Instagram.
3. LunaPlay
Luna Play is a local, online store that curates children’s toys from all over the world. With a collection of adorable and innovative trinkets, these are toys all children will have fun with, but are also great to decorate your living space with. The site has a huge selection of categories ranging from Imaginative and Sensory Play to simple Blocks and Stackers.
These charming pieces also make great gifts, perfect for any baby shower! Anything from the selection will be something both mummy and child are bound to love.
Take a look at LunaPlay’s website here and follow them on Instagram for updates.
4. Meadowlark
Specialising in hand-crafted play dough, bath bombs, organic wellness balms and tinted lip balms, Meadowlark is a team of two mummies who hope to spark joyful bonds and therapeutic fun through the Meadowlark experience.
Their Botanical range is the first and only naturally coloured play dough in Singapore, with colours derived from various flowers and roots and scented with kid-safe therapeutic grade essential oils. Also available is regular play dough, hand made and dyed with artificial food colouring.
The whole family is guaranteed to love these homemade play doughs — let your creative juices flow as you mould all sorts of things with your little ones.
Customisations available. For more information, drop Meadowlark a message on Instagram.
5. Busy Mat
Introducing Busy Mat — this innovative local business is all about keeping little ones engaged, but away from the screens, resulting in adorable placemats that are perfect to keep children entertained. These reusable silicone dining place mats are printed with designs that double as fun, interactive activities to keep children busy during mealtimes.
Also available are colourful markers, all of which are removable with a wet wipe after the colouring session! On top of stimulating creativity and imagination, colouring is thought to improve focus, motor skills and grip strength in toddlers.
For more on Busy Mat, visit their website here and check them out on Facebook and Instagram.
6. The Lavender Spaceship Project
Started with the purpose of wanting to encourage young girls to pursue interests in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) fields, The Lavender Spaceship Project is a learning platform for girls aged 5 to 14. There’s a huge gender gap within the STEM industries, and the platform aims to bridge the gap and develop more interest in the field from a young age.
Sessions are personalised according to the interest and knowledge levels of each girl, and enrichment programmes include areas such as coding, robotics, and game design. Integrated STEM classes are available for younger girls between 5 to 7, and modules such as Coding with Scratch Jr, Introduction to Computer Science and Tactile Programming and Robotics with Ozobot bit will be covered.
More specialised enrichment programmes are available for girls aged 8 to 14. The overall duration of each programme varies, and can last from a minimum total of 3 hours to 10 hours, depending on the content being covered. Possible programmes include Video Game Design with Bloxels, Coding with Python, and various Robotics tasks, such as building your own robot and programming your drone to complete certain challenges. Our Editor-in-Chief’s daughter gave their Scratch Programming class a try, and she loved it!
To find out more about The Lavender Spaceship Project, visit their website or call 8223 4825. For more updates, visit their Facebook and Instagram.
7. LittleLives
Used by 14,000 educators across over a thousand schools, the core of LittleLives is a preschool management system that covers the operative and administrative aspects of the schools. Subsets of LittleLives include Little Family Room, Little Check In, LittlePoop and Little Academy, all of which contribute to the various aspects of the system.
With the recent increased need for Home-Based Learning, the platform was upgraded to allow schools to upload their HBL packages to the system, and in turn be accessed by parents at home to conduct lessons with their children. On the other hand, subsets such as LittlePoop and Little Family Room allow both parents and educators to keep track of a child’s health, growth and progress, providing a stable platform for communication between home and school.
To learn more about LittleLives, visit their website and follow them on Facebook and Instagram.
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