What Celeb Mums Like Zoe Tay & More Do To Keep Their Children Busy At Home
You can use these activities to keep your children entertained on the weekends too
From TikTok dances to Google's 3D Animals, Singapore's celebrity mums are finding creative ways to bond and chill at home with their young children. Steal their ideas and find inspiration for things to do with your kids to beat the Covid-19 blues:
Like many kids, Joanne Peh’s children are also fans of Lego. Such toy bricks are great to stimulate your child’s mathematical and problem-solving skills as well as spatial awareness, creativity and experimentation.
Beyond just building the model on the box, encourage your child to build something different and allow them to be excited to create something they imagined.
Besides using the laptop and iPads for home-based learning and games, online education platforms and language apps are also a productive, useful way to engage your kids. For example, Kate Pang’s daughter Avery is using LingoAce here, an online Chinese learning platform for kids.
Other language apps you can consider are Duolingo and Rosetta Stone.
Music is often an overlooked education medium in favour of math, science and language skills prized in our meritocratic society. Music lessons are great to develop social and physical skills, rhythm, patience, discipline and boost self-esteem.
And who knows, you might have a talented drummer like Fann Wong’s son Zed, who adeptly played the tune of lion dance music. PS: We recommend doing this activity on weekends so it doesn’t disrupt anyone who is working from home.
If you’re trying to get your kids more aware of where food comes from, try gardening together with them. Here, Jamie Yeo shows her daughter Alysia harvesting kang kong, or water spinach, from their home garden. You can also inculcate in them the importance of not wasting food, and climate change.
With just crayons and paper, you can easily have your kids entertain themselves while flexing their creative muscles by getting them to draw and colour. Or, you could take it a step further and have them make cards to express gratitude for the tireless help we get daily like what Cheryl Wee did here with her kids Marc and Emma.
It can be difficult to pry the screens off your children but Eelyn Kok professed that she’s going to try, no matter what. Here, she’s trying to get her son to read more books to foster his creativity, and does so using a carrot-and-stick approach.