For young children, the whole world is new. Activities that adults take for granted — like recognizing colors, feeling textures and moving through the world with ease — are things kids have to learn how to do.
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Gabriela Bogran, head of hands-on fun at arts and crafts store My Festi Goodies, wants to help kids develop those skills.
Bogran is hosting a free series of events for kids ages 3 and up to use their senses and have some fun, too. The first event is scheduled for 1-3 p.m. Saturday, March 29 at the park area between Starbucks and Chipotle at The Shops at Park Lane. If you can’t make that event, don’t worry — there are more events planned for the last Saturdays in April and May. Bogran recommends that parents attend with their children.
Bogran decided to start the series because she wanted to host an Easter-themed event that would be full of hands-on learning and fun. This is her first time hosting this event for the public, but she has led the activity at schools.
“The kids love it,” Bogran said. “They really don’t want to leave once they start exploring and getting their hands on the sensory mixes. It’s very fun and satisfactory for me to see how there’s different minds creating different things with the same theme.”
Kids who attend on March 29 will learn colors, identify smells and be able to create and take home their own Easter basket filled with reusable sensory mixes and little toys. In April, Bogran plans to educate kids about bugs. She hasn’t decided May’s theme yet, but she’s thinking about focusing on gardening and maybe something Mother’s Day-related.
In Bogran’s opinion, sensory events that give kids space to be creative and develop fine motor skills aren’t very common, so her series is filling a need. In her personal experience, she has engaged her oldest child in sensory activities since he was 1 year old, and by the time he started pre-kindergarten, his teacher was praising his fine motor skills.
“The kids have a lot of creativity, but sometimes we just don’t have the right resources or places to take them to, and so I think this is a great opportunity for kids to explore the world of sensory,” she said.
For more information, visit My Festi Goodies’ Facebook page.
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