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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My daughter is 16 and one of her favorite things to do on school breaks is watch The Great British Bake Off. It’s such a soothing show, as well as being creative and fun, and it’s low stakes enough that it isn’t stressful, which is just the thing you need when you’re on a break from school.

If you don’t have an oven or want to do your own real Bake Off challenges, this baking show inspired drawing challenge from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls is a great alternative. This works best if you have a group of kids to play, but you could also do it along with a child at home.

The post includes a bunch of different “baking” challenges for kids to draw. As an example: “Draw a dozen delicious doughnuts! Be sure to include at least two different flavors of icing. Challenge yourself to think of as many creative toppings as you can.”

Give them a set amount of time (maybe 10-15 minutes) to draw their creations based on the prompt. Then have each child present their creation, explaining what they chose to draw and why (and what the different flavors are if it’s not obvious).

There doesn’t have to be a winner, but kids can vote on their favorites or you can “award” things like most colorful, tallest creation, etc. Sarah suggests if doing this with little kids you can come up with an award for everyone, but there need not be prizes involved.

With older kids you might do a couple of rounds and pick winners so that you can have a “star baker” just like in the show.

This is a game that would be a lot of fun for kids of different ages, and you can do it multiple times with the different prompts.

Get all the details and the challenge cards from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.

[Photo: Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls]

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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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