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“Learning while Playing at Home, Fun & Exciting!”
What are Sahabat Panda thinking when you hear the word ‘Learn’?
Maybe some of you thinking about book, pencil, school backpack or even numbers and alphabets to count and write.
Don’t Worry! Learning is not a scary thing!
Learning while playing is one of learning methods that uses a variety of games to improve children’s ability in both logic and motoric skills. This method creates a learning atmosphere that identical with children seating silently and listening to the lesson to be more interactive and interesting for kids to involve in every teaching activity that is provided.
This time, Panda will give you some examples of learning while playing that is fun and definitely exciting, especially in this pandemic situation, it’s time to create a warm and enthusiastic atmosphere with new activities, hopefully this can inspire Sahabat Panda to continue to be enthusiastic in learning.
- Learn to coloring pictures with crayons
This activity can help in the introduction of colors by providing crayons, helping to stimulate problem solving so that they can choose the right color that match with the picture and also improve the creativity and imagination.
- Blocks stacking
This activity designed to trigger children’s curiosity and give a stimulus to increase their concentration and logic in solving problems when arranging blocks. Other than that, these colorful blocks help to recognize colors and help them to learn how to arrange the blocks in the same color.
- Role play
This activity help people to socialize, because there will be role that must be played, whether using media or not. For example, ‘buying-selling’ game. Children play the role of sellers and mom play the role of buyers. This can stimulate children’s imagination and teach them what to do when something happened.
- Playing with moving toys.
In this kind of activity, use toys that can be moving, for example car toys, ball, robot, etc. These toys can help to stimulate motoric system, for example forward and backward, left and right. Other than that, children learn about direction based on the movements they made through the toys they played.
- Playing Flash Cards Memory
Children can improve their memory and concentration by using pictures in Flash Cards to think about the answer: what is on the flash card. It is not only shown, but also giving instructions, for example if it is a picture of a duck, the person who holding the flash card can give an instruction in the form of make a duck-like sound to help the children answer.
There are some examples of learning while playing that Sahabat Panda can try at home. With always be active in every activity that can improve creativity and mindset, learning can be fun and exciting.
Are you ready to learning while playing every day?
“Get to Know: Children’s Interests and Talents from Home”
Hi Moms, how are you and your children’s activities until now?
Children will be more active, as they grow older, and they will experience rapid development, such as physically, mentally, mindset, and also behavior. Don’t forget to keep accompany your children in every development.
In the process of children’s growth, one of the important things and can be Moms and Dads concentration is the process of your children interests and talents.
Every activity your child participates in, can teach Moms & Dads to know what the children enjoys as well as his interests and talents. If parents can accompany children and identify their interests and talents appropriately according to their age, it will be a future provision for the children by having special abilities to adapt and develop in any environment that children faced. In this pandemic situation, Moms have big opportunity to get to know more about children’s interests and talents from home only. Closely observe your child’s movement and development.
Then, how to recognize children’s interests and talents from an early age? Panda will give you reference to help Moms and Dads!
1. Give positive response to every child’s activity.
In the process of their developments, basically children love to do some activities that recurring extra energy, such as running, playing hide and seek, and any games or activities that make their heart happy and excited. For example, when children playing cars, don’t forget to accompany them and start to teach them while playing, like teach them the directions and also help them to recognize shapes of objects.
2. Give stimulus to improve creativity.
Seeing the children active in every activity, Moms can help them to improve their creativity by giving stimulus in the form of games, activities or watching performing arts and involve them, for example playing puzzle while being helped to solve the problem until the puzzle is arranged correctly.
3. Observe every child’s behavior.
Don’t forget to observe their behavior, for example which activities make them happy and laughing, which foods they like the most, and how are their reaction when they playing and doing something to knowing their behavior starting from an early age.
4. Give support and appreciation for children.
Give positive support when Moms accompany them in doing any activities. For example, your children successfully complete the game of stacking blocks, Moms can give happy reaction to them and give positive sentences also physically like hugging them. No matter how small it is, don’t forget to give appreciation so that children can be motivated to do better.
Moms can give present in any form, little snacks for example. Panda will give you a recommendation to prepare Hello Panda, delicious stuffed biscuit which is ready to make your children happy, so don’t forget to prepare your children’s favorite Hello Panda flavor!
“Must Try at Home! Traditional Games are more Fun without Gadgets”
Sahabat Panda, how many hours do you spend playing on your phone?
Some people can spend more than 3 hours just to scrolling through social media timeline, such as Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and also TikTok. Especially in this pandemic situation, Sahabat Panda spend most of the day at home, don’t be less productive, okay!
Do you know, that children overused of technology can have negative consequences? Too much time spent in front of electronic devices, such as tablet, computer, laptop, and phone can increase the risk of anxiety disorders, depression, and behavioral issues also give big impact on your life now and in the future.
Instead of being in front of electronic devices all day, it’s better to having fun with Panda!
Panda will give you some recommendation of traditional games which are not less exciting than games you usually play on your phone and Sahabat Panda can try this at home, around your home, yard, or even inside your home.
1. Jump Rope
This game can be played by 2 peoples or more, which will make you and your friends prepare more energy to play jump rope. This game is made of young yellow rubber bands that have been combined and put in a horizontally pattern. 2 persons in charge of holding the rope at the left and right ends, while the rest of the group jumps rope, try to switch with your friends!
2. Engklek
This traditional game has different names in each region, but the rules remain the same. This game can be played by boys and girls, max. 5 persons. To play, players have to make boxes on a blank field/yard using chalk (be sure the soil can be lined with chalk)
The box can be shaped like letter T, with a total of 3 vertical squares, 3 horizontal squares, 1 vertical square, and 2 horizontal squares. Every player must use one foot to jump over the boxes. If a player fell, he needs to mark the latest box by putting a stone. Are you ready to try it?
3. Hide and Seek
This traditional game doesn’t only exist in Indonesia, but all over the world with different names. The goal of this game is to find the person who is hiding. The first person who is found while hiding is declared as ‘dead’ and will take turns with the seeker.
Hide and seek can be played by at least 2 persons and can be played indoors or even outdoors. Before the game begins, players usually do ‘hompimpah’ to decide who will close their eyes to search the others who are hiding.
Isn’t it fun? Sahabat Panda can have fun by playing even not using gadgets. Take some time with your friends to play one of these games, it’s not only fun, but also make your body active and healthy even at home!
If Sahabat Panda wants to try at home, don’t forget to check your Hello Panda stocks at home and invite your siblings/friend to play at home ☺
“Active and Creative at Home with Age-appropriate Toys”
Hi Moms!
What have you played with your kids today? As you may know, children are in the active period to be creative and explore new things, starting with recognizing movement until interact with their surroundings even at home.
Do you know that toys can help children in stimulate the improvement of their motoric system?
The development of motoric system in their body is one of the child developments processes, in terms of movement which is based on physical and neural maturity. There are 2 of the development of motoric system, the first one is soft-motoric and the second one is hard-motoric. Soft-motoric consists of small muscles with the coordination eyes and hands, meanwhile the hard-motoric consists of balance and coordination between parts of body, like walking and running.
However, children in every age level have different supporting needs.
For that, Panda will give you some toys recommendations based on their age:
1. Age 0 – 1 Year
When children are between the age of 0 – 1 year, they require stimulation in both the development of soft and hard motoric. In the first 8 months, a baby’s brain ability develops by nearly 2 times its original size, therefore Mom should give the right stimulus, so that can help children in their growth period.
The recommended toys for children in the age of 0 – 1 year are playing blocks, cars, dolls, play mat, and other toys which can help their motoric nerves to actively recognize movement.
2. Age 2 – 3 Years
If your child has reached the age of 2 – 3 years, they will experience rapid developments, for example talking and starting to doing simple things on their own. This age range is commonly called as golden age, which is the age of significant development, both in personalities and abilities.
The recommended toys for these ages are playdough, clay, disassembly toys which can be used to improve hand coordination and skills.
3. Age 4 – 5 Years
In the age of 4 – 5 years, children will experience brain development upto 80% to controlling their behavior (paradigm and emotion), so that Moms can help to improve children’s creativity, imagination, oral skills and also learning new things, like words and numbers.
The recommended toys for these ages, are puzzle, words and numbers game, coloring pictures which can help stimulate creativity also problem solving.
4. Age 6 – 12 Years
Entering the age of 6 years and above, brain development in controlling behavior grows by 90% to 100%, if your child entering age of 6 years, Moms can invite them to participate in creating something new, for example drawing by imitating particular objects, Kitchen set game for girls so that they can learn to make decisions when preparing food. Boys can try to assembly robot, cars to stimulate their concentration and problem solving.
No need to worry in this pandemic situation, Moms still can give playing stimulation with children through toys and home activities. Hopefully this will be reference for Moms to help children to be active, dynamic and learning many things ☺
Exercising while Improving Your Children’s Creativity? Let’s Start Now!
There are many activities that can help your children in improving their creativity, but have Moms and Dads ever invited your children to exercise as one of the efforts to improve their creativity? Turns out, by exercising, children can maintain the body’s immune system and also also improve their creativity. How come? Let’s read the explanation here! ☺
In this digital era, children are getting closer to technology that affects children’s activities. In the past, children played and did activities physically, but now children can play games on their own gadget. This can affect the physical health of the children. They can become more active in front of gadgets than doing physical activities, whereas at the age of children, they really need activities that trigger their motor skills, both hard and soft, as well as emotional, social and thinking skills. Therefore, one of the activities that Moms and Dads can do to encourage your children to be active and healthy is by exercising regularly.
Exercise is one of the most necessary activities for humans of all ages. Starting from light sports that can be done indoors, to sports that require more skill and strength that are done outdoors. Besides Moms & Dads need to exercise every day for at least 30 minutes, your children also need to exercise.
Exercising with children is one of the best ways for Moms & Dads to spend time together and become a real manifestation of parental love for children. By exercising, it’s very beneficial for the development of physical abilities, cognitive, emotional, creativity and imagination. Not only that, in some games or sports, children can be trained to work together in team. This is important for the children’s social need and learning to work together.
Now, Panda will give you some Sports Recommendations that Moms & Dads can do with your children to improving their creativity. Here You Go!
1. Swimming
This sport is attractive to children because they can play with water. Train your children to swim regularly! This also can increase the sensitivity of their vestibular system (the body system that plays a role in regulating body balance). When swimming, almost all body parts play an active role, then Moms & Dads can introduce object around them to train their motor skills.
2. Walking
This activity is one of the simple and easy exercises to be done every day by Moms & Dads with your children. Take your children for a walk in the park while introducing them to the environment and nature. This method can also support the development of children’s naturalistic intelligence, because it gives them opportunity to learn about various living things and the uniqueness of nature around them.
3. Tool-Assisted Sports
This sport activity requires various tools, such as ball, rubber ropes, hula hoops or other tools depending on the activity that Moms & Dads will do with your children. The more diverse the types of sports, the more fun it will be for your children. Start with tools according to your children’s age. With this activity, they have practiced their motor skills and have quality time with Moms & Dads.
So, are Moms & Dads ready to exercise with your children?
Don’t Forget to bring your children’s favorite flavor of Hello Panda as the reward for your children for exercising together!☺
Moms, how is your children fasting? Is it going well? Keep up the spirit of fasting with your children, Moms! Panda always supports Moms & Dads to accompany your children in fasting according to their ability of the children and to deepen the meaning of the Month of Ramadhan. ☺
Don’t forget to always prepare you children’s favorite flavor of Hello Panda at home when your Children break their fast! Break the fast with delicious filled biscuits from HELLO PANDA to make your children happy during fasting.
Children who are currently learning to fast really need attention from Moms & Dads. Starting from the attitude during fasting, enduring thirst and hunger to slowly introducing fasting itself, making Moms & Dads must be more patient in teaching your children in fasting in the month of Ramadhan. So, how can we make fasting to be more fun for children? One of them is by making them active and creative!
Moms can invite them to do activities that can improve creativity starting from simple things. What are they? Let’s See!
1. Making Takjil and Foods for Iftar
Besides buying Takjil and Iftar foods outside, Moms can try to make them with your children. Let your children innovate when making Takjil, recognize the ingredients and teach children to feel the texture of the ingredients they make. With this, children can improve their hard and soft motor skills and also their imagination when cooking. But keep in mind, Moms must continue to keep an eye on them while in the kitchen.
2. Making Ramadan and Eid Greeting Cards
“Sharing is Caring” ☺
This month of Ramadhan is an opportunity for us to share with others. One of them is by sending Hampers/Special gifts for family and closest one. Before the hampers are sent, Moms need greeting cards! It’s time to take advantage of this opportunity to invite your children to make Ramadhan and Eid greeting cards at home. Starting with folding the paper and put it on the hampers. It can help your children to improve their creativity in making a memorable greeting card.
3. Make a Ramadan-themed Poster.
This activity can be done by your children which your children can put on their room or shared with others. Moms can direct your children to color the pictures that have been made by you, or Moms can provide examples of Ramadhan-themed pictures that your children can imitate. How exciting is that!
So, here are some activities that Moms & Dads can do with your children to be able to improve creativity during Ramadhan. It’s exciting and also creative. Your children will be more active and creative while doing activities but the fasting remains ☺
Who becomes happy when school holiday comes? During holiday, Panda’s friends can do various activities with family and friends besides school routines, such as school assignments and exams. During the school holiday, what have you done with your family and friends?
Just like we are excited when we are on holiday, Hello Panda is always here for you and ready to make you happy with delicious filled biscuits all day long! Hello Panda is available in many variants, such as Chocolate, Strawberry, Milk Vanilla, Cookies & Cream, and the latest variant, Cream Cheese.
After preparing Hello Panda products, now it’s time to prepare yourself to stay productive! Here, Panda wants to give you some recommendations for fun activities that will make you stay productive and creative during school holiday.
Don’t forget to invite Mom & Dad to read this important informations and do the activities with you!
1. Start Learning to Draw
Drawing can help to increase motor development, self-confidence, creativity, emotional development and cognitive abilities. When learning to draw, Mom will help you to draw other objects such as beaches, animated animals, or another images that is easy for you to draw.
2. Play with Origami Paper
This activity can help you to understand shapes and sizes. With Origami paper, you and your mom can create various shapes, such as birds, frogs, planes, etc.
Besides being fun and exciting, playing with Origami paper can help you to train your thinking stills, accuracy, memory, imagination and also train you to follow instructions. Don’t forget to always invite Mom to accompany you when making crafts with Origami paper!
3. Camping with Family
Do you like playing outdoors?
You can invite your family to camp together in your yard. When preparing for camping, you and your family can help each other with setting up tents, putting up mats and preparing food. Camping will train you to work together, get to know the nature, face and solve problems, such as dealing with the wind coming through the tent window.
4. Gardening
Besides camping, for you who like outdoor activities, you can invite your family to do gardening! You can do it in your yard or around your house. While gardening, you can ask Mom and Dad many things about gardening such as plants and the importance of protecting environment. By gardening, it can help you develop your sensory skills.
5. Light Exercise
This activity if often missed when there are many daily activities and do not have many time. On holiday, it’s time for you and your family to take some time to do light exercise! This activity is not only able to maintain a healthy body, but also help brain development. As is known, sports can improve blood flow and oxygen supply to the brain which can make thinking smoother and easier for you to find interesting ideas.
So, are you ready to start these fun and productive activities? Choose your favorite activity and don’t forget to invite your family and friends to stay active, productive and more creative!
Hello Panda’s friends!
How was your holiday with your family? Hopefully this school holiday was useful and enjoyable! It’s great that Panda always accompanies you and your family in every occasions, also during this school holiday.
School holiday will be over and it means you and your friends will be going back to school soon. Sometimes, a long holiday makes us comfortable and enjoy with many exciting activities. But now, it’s time to bring the positive spirit when you’re going back to school!
At school, you will meet teachers and friends to learn and play together, isn’t it fun? Make back to school become a cheerful moment with Hello Panda! Don’t forget to remind Mom to always stock Hello Panda biscuits at home, so you and your family can enjoy it at home and also at school with friends.
Hello Panda is ready to be taken to school, now let’s prepare yourself to go back to school with these tips!
- Prepare School Supplies
You can start with preparing your school supplies. Choose your school bag that you will bring to school, check your things, such as notebooks, textbooks, pencil boxes, stationery and hand sanitizers to maintain health protocols while at school.
- Start with Your Daily Routine
During holiday, did you sleep late from your usual bedtime? If yes, now you can start a daily routine, for example waking up early and going bed on time, so that you’re ready to wake up early for school. You will used to wake up early and have a good sleep schedule so that your body condition remains healthy when you go back to school.
- Start Making a Daily Schedule
How was your daily schedule during school holiday? Waking up, breakfast and then playing? It is certain that your daily schedule during school holiday is different from when you go back to school.
Panda recommends that you have to start making a daily schedule so that you can get used to your schedule before school holiday. Starting with time to do homework, wake up, breakfast, and go to school. Also, don’t forget to set time to rest so that you’re still excited for learning at school and at home.
So, are you ready to go back to school? You have to be excited to go back to school, meet old and new friends, and also teachers. Don’t forget to bring Hello Panda to school. It’s more fun when enjoying Hello Panda with friends!
Hello Panda’s friends! Who has received their report cards at school? When you already received your report card, it means school holiday has begun and we are ready to welcome holiday season fun and exciting together!
Finally, we have gone through this semester and this has affected our energy. Therefore, every certain period, there will be a school holiday which is very enjoyable for us. During the holiday, we can do various activities that make us happy and free from the schoolwork.
To keep your energy and spirits up, Panda has some great tips for you and your family that you can do during the school holidays!
Even though it’s holiday time, don’t forget to stock Hello Panda products at home. Prepare Hello Panda when packing before leaving for vacation, so that you are always happy at all times 😀
Here are some tips from Hello Panda that you can follow with your family when preparing for a vacation during the school holidays!
- Give Activity Ideas to Parents
Before deciding what activities to do on a vacation, Panda’s friends should prepare ideas for fun activities for family vacation. For example, go to the zoo to interact directly with nature and various types of animals.
Don’t have any ideas yet? You can look around you, such as pictures and toys. If you see car toys, you can give your parents the idea to go to a playground, for example.
- Discuss with Family
Every family member has their own ideas and desires, so it’s better to discuss with your family before going on vacation. Invite Mom & Dad to discuss some activities and tourist destinations that can be visited together and also fun to do with your beloved family. - Choose Useful Activities
In order to make your vacation more meaningful and useful, this third tip will help you and your family to find various activities that can be done with your family. What are they? Let’s find out here! - Activities that can help to improve creativity and imagination. For example making different shapes from wax or clay, painting, drawing comics, writing a poem, etc.
- Activities that can help in physical and skill development. For example, swimming, dancing, gymnastics, sewing, morning walks, do some sports, etc.
- Activities that can help increase knowledge. For example, go to museums, temples, bookstores, zoos, villages, shopping at traditional markets, etc.
- Activities that can help to socialize. For example, invite children to visit their relatives, stay at grandma’s house, play with children around the neighbourhood, etc.
Here are some holiday preparation tips for you and your family. Besides being exciting and fun, you and your family can feel the benefits when doing various activities during the holidays. So, where are you going on this school holiday?
What do you think of, when you hear the word “Holiday?”
Panda thinks of doing variety activities, that Panda hasn’t had time to do during the weekday routine. During this time of school, you must be happy when the holiday period comes
Even happier if Hello Panda is always there for you in every moment, including your family vacation. So don’t forget to prepare Hello Panda wherever and whenever you and your family are!
Holiday period is the best moment to enjoy with your loved ones. Usually, holidays are used as the perfect time to do various activities other than the daily routine that we do, especially when we learn at school.
Because the holiday period is a beautiful time for you and your family, so you need to maximize holiday preparations, starting with planning with your family to make the holiday more memorable and enjoyable. After planning, it’s time for you and your family to prepare various things before going on vacation. Here are some things that you need to prepare with your family, so that you and your family are ready to start an exciting and fun family vacation!
- Choose safe and comfortable transportation
After deciding on a vacation destination, it’s time to choose the most comfortable and safe transportation for your family. Comfort will affect you and your family during vacation. For example, the distance between your house and the museum is less than 3 km, you and your family can use private vehicles or public vehicles provided by the government, such as bus, train, etc.
- Provide medicines and favorite snacks
This one tip is also important, so don’t forget to bring your favorite snacks. This will be very useful for long trips. Always provide Hello Panda in your bag so you can eat it on the way Other than snacks, don’t forget to provide medicines and remind this to Mom & Dad!
- Capture the moment together
It’s important to taking pictures with your family to capture moments of happiness. Memorable things will be easily remembered when seeing it in physical form. You can save beautiful memories, if you captured them. Bring your phone/any other device that can be used to capture the moment!
- Important Things to Bring.
Don’t forget to prepare things, such as clothes, sandals, or anything that you and your family need on the family vacation, especially when you travelling far and need to stay overnight.
Well, those are some things you and your family need to prepare for family vacation. So, How far have you prepared with your family?
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