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The Good Thing Jar

One small note a day about something good, folded into a jar.

للأعمار5y - 12y
الوقت المتاح10 دقيقة
التحضير5 دقيقة
الفوضى
الضجيج
دوركنعم، سأشاركهم

Two minutes a day, and in three months you have a jar full of a year they would otherwise have forgotten.

ما تحتاجه

  • a jar or box
  • small pieces of paper
  • a pen

طريقة التنفيذ

  1. Decorate a jar together and put it somewhere visible.
  2. Each evening, everyone writes one good thing from that day on a slip of paper.
  3. It must be specific. Not a nice day, but the bit where the dog fell in the pond.
  4. Fold it and drop it in without reading it aloud.
  5. Open the whole jar together on the last day of the month.

لماذا هذا مفيد لهم

Being required to find one specific good detail changes what a child notices during the day, not just what they report at the end of it. Keeping the notes private until the end of the month also stops it becoming a performance for the adult.

التعديل حسب العمر

4 to 5 yearsThey draw it, or dictate it to you.
11 to 12 yearsAdd a second jar for things that were hard and what helped.

السلامة

None needed.

نصيحة للترتيب

None.

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