Fun Activities At Home

Go On a Cupboard Journey with your Child

The kitchen is a great place to think about geography.

1. Choose some of the tins, fruit, pasta and other food on your shelves.
2. Study the labels and see if you can find out where they come from.
3. Enter, get a map of the world and place the items on it, on their country of origin.  or, put a sticky note on each item with the country's name on it, and then line the items up with the nearest country closest to you and the most distant furthest away.
4. Discuss what you know about the countries, or go and find out more together.

With very young children, just focus on one country, perhaps one with which you can make some kind of connection for them.

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