My kid learner is always super enthusiastic about handicraft. If she can cut, glue, stick, or draw, that's heaven (for adults, it tends to be burning hell). The other day, however, I must admit I screwed up: I allowed her to draw her family as an appetizer to an exercise. Well, let's just say, we didn't see much of the main dish that day.
So, having learned from this, I have tried to design the tasks so they engage the kid's creativity but within boundaries, set by the given time frame. Last time, for example, we were covering the four seasons. I brought her a tree, which had parts of each season, and made it into a jigsaw puzzle. First, she needed to put them back together and write the names of the seasons to the appropriate quarter. Then, we went through the months, practicing the alphabet and spelling. Finally, she had to think of what she likes about each season, scribble it on a post-it, and stick it onto the picture.
By the end, we had a rather cute composition and we managed to produce it in one sitting. With children I find it emphatically important to have a proper ending (after the main dish, or even better, after the dessert), so they can digest it more easily.
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