Home project ideas

[MickyLee]

My DD is 4 in May.

I want to start on a long project with her and need some ideas.

I thought about Earth as a theme. Maybe work on a country a week. Where the country is, the food they eat, weather there etc. Maybe get scrap books and use a double page per country or something.

Has anyone done anything like this with 4yr olds? Does it sound a bit complicated?

Any other ideas for a theme maybe?

What is she interested in? Could you ask her for ideas?

My DS is only very young so I haven't attempted anything like this with him yet but, if he could choose a project, I know it would be something to do with either trains or building sites / diggers etc. I think it would be much easier to hold his interest if the subject matter was a topic he was already quite obsessed with.

Very true.

Just asked her and she likes Make-up and Barbies

She does really like Ballet (although only from what she has seen on TV)

Can you tell DD is very girly!

Make-up and Barbies

Does she have a Barbie? If you really do want to start a major project, how about involving her Barbie in it? Perhaps Barbie could visit lots of places in your local area and make a scrap book detailing where she has been? Perhaps you could start thinking about all the jobs Barbie might like to do for a living (dentist, farmer, architect, rubbish collector, lawyer, shop assistant, whatever...) and talk about what she might do in an average day, and what clothes and equipment she might need...

I don't know, really! To be honest, I am not planning to do anything so formal - at least in the short term.

just ideas, see if she likes real ballet, you tubes good for 10-20 min clips of swan lake, nutcracker ect and then go to see it live.
a family tree.
barbie's from around the world.
good luck

What about a diary project, putting in details of the places you go, food you eat, songs you sing, it would double as a record of your home ed and of your lives in general. Photos of relatives, of Barbie on her adventures...

My son is 7 and we have just completed a "Countries" project....he had a few countries and had to draw the flag,find out what the country was famous for,foods,language spoken,climate and population......i must admit it was a bit of a battle getting it done as my son wasnt really interested in it.

I would have thought it was complicated for a 4year old but it depends on the child.

The diary sounds good including barbie.....may try that for my son next time and include his teddies as he always talks about his teddies like they are family lol

Diary sounds great! Thanks for that idea :)

Real ballet would be just as educational for me too as I know nothing about ballet (apart from watching Black Swan )

Going to write all these ideas down and put them to DD

A nature diary/sketck book is my suggestion

I gave my ds a landscape A4 exercise book (with plain pages) (sketch book would be just as good/better) when he was 4. He is 9 now and still adds to it!
It is filled with drawings of birds from around the world.

The weather would be a good continuing topic too - weather diary, weather in different countries, checking out the weather rhymes (any truth in them?). Tracking the first day you see flowering daffodils/snowdrops and autumn leaves each and every year for the next decade (?!?) would make an interesting study........

HTH