Summer 2020: Strategies for Families to Keep their Sanity
Resources and tips for thinking about summer 2020 – empowering kids to find a passion, be independent and stay social.
Ages 9+
Zoom Party Strategies for Successful Kid Birthdays in Quarantine
Throwing a party for your kid during COVID-19? Check out these ways to empower the birthday kid, play interactive games, and make lemonade out of the lemons!
Part of Your World Parody: A Teacher in Quarantine
Watch this perfect parody for Coronavirus Times: “Part of Your World: A Teacher in Quarantine.” Get inspired to make art and grateful to our kids’ classroom teachers!
Games to Help Kids Write
Some inspired play-based tips on writing from an education consultant!
Emotions Charades and Other Games to Support Feeling Kids
Emotions Charades is a super fun and incredibly potent tool to help support EQ and empathy in our kids. Use these tips from our theater classrooms to inspire your games and learn about other playful ways that help kids come to terms with their emotions. In these highly charged times we live in, kids need support in identifying and expressing their feelings…let’s do it through play!
Practice Listening With Story Clap!
I can’t believe that Thanksgiving is upon us! You may be already preparing the brine, buying cranberries in bulk or finding the perfect wine pairing
Need A Laugh? Play “Silly Chins”!
You may have done this with girlfriends on a sleepover in the 80’s. I know I did. You may have done this as part
Getting Into Character: 4 Games For More Compassionate Kids
Getting into another character’s shoes is the best way (that I know) to build empathy. These simple exercises will get kids out of their own heads and into the hearts of their character. The theater gives us these essential tools to boost empathy and emotional intelligence in our young students.
Kids Get In Touch With Emotions – Here’s How
Tongue twisters warm up the voice…Yoga can stretch the body…But what about our character’s feelings? I use “Pass the Emotions” to get my students primed