🌞 The holiday gazette (and the parents who manage it) n°3
EDITION 3 Who wants the program?
Ah, family vacations.
We dream about it for weeks. We prepare for it like a polar expedition. And once we're there... we discover that parental love withstands everything: sandals full of sand, children covered in sunscreen.
Welcome to this third edition of our holiday gazette: today, we're diving into the true taste of summer, and we're offering you, like our playlist, a program worthy of the Mickey Mouse Club.... A list of simple, effective and tested tips to keep the kids busy while you enjoy your tanning/book/nap/quiet coffee time by the sea (we can dream)
The fake program: Hang a sheet with 2 or 3 “missions of the day” for the children: look for white pebbles, invent a summer dance, hug a tree, they love having a “mission”, and you gain 10 minutes of peace.
For a chill-out corner under the parasol:
Prepare a kit or a mission box to take out only at the beach (novelty effect guaranteed):
- 2 figurines (animals, dinos, characters)
- Small molds / mini funnel
- Mini magnifying glass
- A roll of masking tape (they will stick seaweed on pebbles, guaranteed success)
- Grease pencil or even a paint palette (to paint on the pebbles)
Shell tattoos : wet a pebble, stick a shell or seaweed on it, it lasts (and gets people talking)
The Sea Detective Game
- Make a visual scavenger hunt checklist
- 1 striped shell
- 1 holey stone
- 1 piece of driftwood
- Someone with a green jersey
- A towel with an animal
- A seagull's cry
And as always, the team's tried and tested survival tip: "sand no more"
A makeup brush, great for brushing sand between your toes (and your bottom)
“express cream” Sunscreen + beauty blender = quick application on mini-faces without getting too messy.
Our favorite bookseller has made a selection of books for you to get back to work smoothly.
A small cardboard box to accompany our little ones' entry into daycare: we review a busy day, with games, meals and naps, all under the tender and caring pen of Pauline Martin. A gem! Baby at the Daycare , by Pauline Martin, published by La Partie (€13.90)
If you haven't heard of the Marcel and Léon series yet, get going! This time it's certain, by constantly claiming to be the tallest, Léon really has to start school... all alone! Because his brother is too small to go with him. "He'll go to school when he's a big penguin like you! I'm not that big!" mumbles Léon. A tender album to take the drama out of the first day at school, far from your family. Let's go to school, Léon! by Emile Jadoul, Pastel (€12.50)
“And here is Pascaline. Three years old, with hairy wings and very clear ideas: no school. Not even in her dreams.” She will scream so loudly that her parents will suddenly shrink! Pascaline doesn’t give up and takes her parents with her to school, hidden under her wings. Yes, but there you go, her parents aren’t very well-behaved, not during the song, nor for the canteen, nor for nap time… Will they come back tomorrow? Not even in her dreams! by Béatrice Alemagna, ed. Ecole des Loisirs (€6)
For our older children entering first grade, we opt for this collection of 11 stories to read on their own throughout the year. Designed by a teacher to support learning to read, the texts offer a font adapted to young readers, with grayed-out silent letters and complicated words detailed in a glossary. Ideal for getting started in reading! I'm in first grade , by Magdalena, published by Flammarion (€12.90)
And what about middle school? We can't resist this Proust madeleine, a novel we devoured as teenagers and which hasn't aged a day, written with malice by the talented Susie Morgenstern. We follow Margot's first year at middle school, whose ambition is to become a class representative but who is also very popular: a treat! The Sixth , by Susie Morgenstern, published by Ecole des Loisirs (€6.50)
