Pottery: They can go to a special pottery studio or prepare simple pottery tools at home, such as clay and potter’s wheels. The elderly and children can work together to shape various pottery items, such as cups, bowls, and small animals. This can not only improve their practical skills but also inspire their creativity. After making the pottery, they can color it together, and after it dries, it will become a unique piece of work.
Woodworking: If conditions and corresponding safety measures permit, some simple woodworking activities can be carried out. For example, small photo frames, bookmarks, and small ornaments can be made from small wooden pieces. The elderly can teach the children some basic woodworking skills, such as sawing wood and sanding, allowing the children to experience the joy of creating with their own hands.
Weaving: Use wool, hemp thread, or other materials for weaving. The elderly can teach the children to weave simple items such as scarves, gloves, hats, or use the weaving method to make small decorations such as small pendants and coasters. During the weaving process, the children can cultivate patience and concentration, and the elderly can enjoy a warm family time.
Cooking Delicacies
Baking: Make cakes, cookies, bread, and other baked goods together. The elderly can guide the children on how to accurately measure the ingredients, stir the batter, and set the oven temperature. The children can use frosting, chocolate chips, fruits, etc. to decorate the pastries creatively, and finally enjoy the delicious results together.
Traditional Cuisine Preparation: Norway has some characteristic traditional cuisines, such as meatballs and salmon patties. The elderly can take the children to prepare the ingredients together and cook these cuisines according to traditional methods, allowing the children to understand Norway’s dietary culture.
Cultural and Artistic Activities
Painting: Prepare drawing paper, paintbrushes, pigments, and other drawing tools, and the elderly and children can draw together. They can choose various themes such as landscapes, figures, and animals, or create freely according to their imagination. After drawing, they can share their works with each other and talk about the stories and ideas in the paintings.
Calligraphy: If the elderly are good at calligraphy, they can teach the children calligraphy. Starting from holding the pen and basic strokes, let the children feel the charm of calligraphy. Practicing calligraphy together can cultivate the children’s patience and aesthetic ability and is also a of traditional culture.
Music: Norway is a paradise for chamber music with a strong musical atmosphere. The elderly and children can enjoy different types of music such as classical music and folk music together, or play simple instruments such as ukuleles and harmonicas together. If there are pianos, guitars, or other instruments at home, they can also learn and play some simple tunes together.
Games and Entertainment
Board Games: Such as chess, checkers, go, etc. These board games can exercise thinking ability and strategic awareness. The elderly and children can compete with each other and enhance their feelings in the game.
Card Games: For example, playing playing cards, UNO cards, etc. Card games have simple and easy – to – understand rules and are highly interesting, suitable for the elderly and children to play together and can bring a lot of joy.
Puzzles: Choose puzzles suitable for the children’s age and complete them together. Puzzles can exercise observation ability and patience, and when a puzzle is completed, it will bring a great sense of accomplishment to the elderly and children.
Reading and Learning
Joint Reading: Select some books suitable for children to read, such as fairy tales and popular science books, and the elderly and children can read them together. The elderly can explain the contents of the books to the children to help them understand, or they can discuss the plots and characters in the books together to cultivate the children’s reading interest and thinking ability.
Language Learning: If the elderly can speak other languages besides Norwegian, such as English or German, they can teach the children. Through daily conversations, word learning, simple language games, etc., let the children get in touch with and learn other languages and broaden their horizons.
Indoor Sports
Yoga: Lay yoga mats in the living room or a special sports area, and follow yoga videos or the guidance of the elderly to practice simple yoga together. Yoga can help relax the body and mind and enhance the body’s flexibility and balance.
Indoor Table Tennis: If there is enough space at home, a small table tennis table can be set up for indoor table tennis. This is an activity that can exercise reaction ability and hand – eye coordination, and the elderly and children can compete with each other’s table tennis skills.
