Looking for ways to inspire your child's imagination and home language use during the winter break? Get help from an elf!
In this blog post, we hear from Jana Aguilar Marquez and Michaela Martínez Pauker about a truly fun and creative way to stimulate home language use around the holiday time. These educators run a Czech heritage language project " Pinčlata" in Germany and have some great tips for parents home with the children over the winter break. They describe celebrating Christmas and work with children who are developing the Czech language, but the idea of getting a magical helper to spawn exciting conversations with your children can also be adapted to other contexts and languages. Many thanks to Jana and Michaela for this fantastic contribution! You may have noticed that in recent years, a new mysterious item has appeared in stores before Christmas: tiny elf doors . They usually hang discreetly among all the artificial garlands, sometimes accompanied by miniature brooms and buckets, skis, and rolling pins. These are accessories for Christmas elves, who have started making their way to u...