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How to make your children travel without leaving home

2020-04-04T06:12:41.192Z


Discover the world while having fun and creating. Travel without moving too much. Family games and activities to get away from it all when you are confined.


Explore capitals, go tracking wild animals, observe world heritage, get lost in dream landscapes, make funny encounters ... by playing, drawing, reading at home. Organizing child-parent evenings around memories of vacations, photo albums, etc. are beneficial breakaways. Until we can leave, the world is coming to us.

Publishers of games and books, museums, tour operators also offer free downloadable content to fly away in thought to distant lands. Here's how.

Notebooks and quizzes

  • In a fun way and without a screen

The WanderWorld customizable notebooks invite children (from 5 to 11 years old) to familiarize themselves with a destination (Barcelona, ​​Bordeaux, Lyon, London, Nantes, New York, Paris, Venice, the mountains; and soon The Great American Parks). These small illustrated booklets list 18 activities to learn unusual information about the city, anecdotes to memorize history and heritage in a joyful way, stickers of emblematic monuments to stick on the map… And when the children have visited these cities, they can also record their memories, check things seen and loved ... From € 10.50 per book.

In this period of confinement, Isabelle Morin, creator of WanderWorld offers, to Le Figaro readers, three travel sheets to color and a planisphere to fill in (the countries I have been to, where I dream of going to ...) on: https: //wanderworld.fr/votre-cadeau-wanderworld/

Wanderworld travel diaries

  • For the most connected

The Seterra cartographic games platform puts more than 200 games and quizzes for the family online for free, to enhance the geographic culture of children and refresh the parents' memories. Locate the Yangzi Jiang, find the Colossus of Rhodes, give the names of the smallest countries in the world, recognize the flag of Moldova ... But also click on the EU countries after Brexit on an interactive map, while the hourglass counts the seconds!

  • Other option on screen

The video game GeoGuessr, whose slogan "Let's explore the World! Sounds like an invitation to travel (virtual). The player is teleported to a famous place (thanks to images from Google Street View, for example in the middle of the standing stones of Calanais, Scotland) that he must recognize. He can move around the image with his mouse to find clues in the landscape and the environment, but also by opening a window on a search engine to gather additional information. Two versions (in English) are available, one free in 2D and one paid in 3D.

The historic Bioviva game © Richard Sprang

Board games

Get out (or order online) a good classic! When in 1996 Jean-Thierry Winstel launched Bioviva, a board game on the planet (eco-designed and made in France), he passed for an enlightened one. Its enriched and remastered bestseller (250 places to discover around the world and to replace on the world map, 250 animals to guess, 250 questions about nature) is now a must for family Sundays! New educational, funny and unifying games (“from 8 to 108 years old”, for 2 to 6 players) have come to enrich its catalog. The “Cities and Countries Enigmas” cards (from 9 years old): 80 cities and countries to guess with 5 clues. Or the latest “Défis Nature Escape - Operation camouflage” (from 7 years old): two surveys that take players to South America (survey 1) or to Africa (survey 2) in the footsteps of camouflage animals. For budding explorers!

To brighten up the spring holidays, Bioviva has just made available two special versions of their games to download here.

Bioviva Cities Riddles

Selection of world stories

With toddlers (1-3 years), the sound image “My music of the world” (www.gallimard-jeunesse.fr) takes you to Mexico, Peru, Greece, Japan, Senegal, Polynesia . An image and music that germinate in the imagination of the future globetrotter to give it a taste of elsewhere.

For 3-6 year olds, the tales of the École des Loisirs, around meeting with others in "La Valise" by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros or discovering a capital with "Les Toutous à Paris" by Dorothée de Monfreid, open their eyes and awareness to the world through earthy fictions.

Chez Milano, after “England”, “Spain” (16 questions, a pop-up card, a language course…) has just appeared in the collection “Mes p'tites questions atlas” which is intended for 7-10 years old.

DIY

Usborne, the children's book publisher, offers creative kits for toddlers to escape by creating their own story vector. "My little Sewing kit" containing everything necessary to make, in felt, animals crossed during real or dreamed trips (giraffe, whale, parrot ...), 14.95 €. With the online tutorial “Véronique's workshop”, sewing these critters becomes child's play!

Another favorite, the 6 opus from the “Paper Planes” collection, for making aircraft and imagining flying to distant lands. To support parents during this confined holiday period, the “Usborne: Learn while having fun at home” page gives ideas for free activities to download. Departure for eternal India with "The Taj Mahal", a little game to help Ali the architect on his site and discover the history of this legendary monument.

The musée du quai Branly - Jacques-Chirac, specializing in the arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, takes children by the hand (from a distance) with tutorials that are as fun as they are instructive: creation of a Polynesian tattoo, creation of an aboriginal boomerang in cardboard, a meditation session with the wild geese of Asia… Each card literally transports the child on a marvelous motionless journey. On the museum site, scroll to the "Children" section.

Some tips and bonuses from professionals

Club Med temporarily renamed "Club Med at home" transforms parents into "GO for a day". We particularly like the podcast series "Another story". The episode "Electrico 28" to listen to as a family tells the adventures of Amadeu, the tram driver, in the streets of Lisbon. Or the origami lessons: "We bend over backwards" to make pretty blue fish, like in Japan.

Jérôme Stefanski, founder of the chic family hotel platform "Little Guest" has posted seven illustrated nursery rhymes to print. Each evening of the week, a new epic by Luca and Mila (in Asia, Oceania, On the oceans…) to hum and color.

Little Guest coloring story

Marianne Chandernagor and the World Tourism Fair offer a link to the blog one day a game to download for free a game of 7 families from European countries.

As for Aurélie and Aurélien Chabrol, bosses of "Tribe of Explorers", to make their children travel without leaving the apartment, they ask them to write the story of a memorable day of vacation. Stories, also written by their clients' children, to be read soon on the Tribu d'Explorateurs website. Another way to rediscover the excitement of travel: " we find ourselves one evening of the week around vacation memories, bringing out the albums, they say (Editor's note, for those who don't have albums, it's the moment or never to make one, for example on www.photobox.fr) Remembering the strong moments, the giggles, the meetings, the typical dishes… strengthens family ties and constitutes moments of sharing and sharing. 'hope'.

But above all, to be in a positive dynamic, they project themselves and think about their next trips, when life returns to normal. Around the table and the family computer, they carry out research on the country they would like to discover, watch videos on YouTube to select activities, whet their appetite with recipes of local specialties… "The journey is is a school of life and thinking about it is a wonderful way out, ”they conclude.

Source: lefigaro

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