Help Your Kids Get Used to Wearing Masks

If your kids are going to school in person at all for the foreseeable future, it’s likely they will have to wear face masks at some point. Make it a little easier on the teachers and help them get used to the idea and practice of wearing masks now and it will be less scary/annoying when school starts.

Dana at Bias Behavioral has a great set of tips for parents to help their kids get used to wearing masks.

One that we’ve done in our family is putting masks on dolls, and she gets to pick the masks she wants from a variety that I am making.

Click over to her post for all the tips. If something has worked for you I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Bias Behavioral.]

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Leif Erikson Day is celebrated on Oct. 9, and it’s a great time to learn more about the Vikings and why we still remember Erikson all these years later.

If you don’t know about Leif Erikson (sometimes spelled Eriksson), he’s believed to have been born in Iceland, and is considered the first European to set foot on continental America, more than 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has a printable mini book about Leif Erikson and the Vikings for kids to read and color. It talks about who the Vikings were, what kind of ships they used, how they got to America and more. It’s a good overview for younger kids to use.

A good unit study is available from Simple Living Creative Learning, which includes a page where kids can write what they know, what they want to learn and what they learned through the unit, as well as information on the Vikings, longships, helmets, clothing and more.

Get a printable Viking unit study with reading passages, comprehension questions and other activities aimed at grades 4-8 from Creative Classroom Core at Teachers Pay Teachers. (And see more Vikings content from TPT here.)

Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus has some great unit study ideas, too, including suggested books and videos. The post includes information about the Viking voyages, society, mythology and ships, as well as some vocabulary and a list of famous Vikings. While you’re over there also check out her free printable lapbook, which includes mini books on ships, a timeline, a Viking women coloring page, draw your own Vikings, geography, ancient runes and more.

Piqolo Kids has a lesson on Viking women with (available for purchase) worksheets about a day in the life of Viking women. Even if you don’t grab the printables there’s some good resources on that page and a link to a video on Viking women.

Learn how to draw a Viking ship with instructions from Drawing How to Draw, or grab Vikings coloring and labeling worksheets from Kids Puzzles and Games.

There’s a Leif Erikson Festival annually in Norway, Michigan, which you can learn more about here.

Comments

Christine says
July 30, 2020 at 5:28 am
I didn’t know children had to wear masks. No child round here wears a mask.
Sarah White says
August 5, 2020 at 6:24 pm
Where I live, and I think it’s true in lots of places in the United States that have mask mandates, kids over 10 have to wear them and they are recommended over age 2. Some schools are also requiring masks since they can’t have kids sit six feet apart.

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