Activities for babies and children

We said a few days ago that to introduce children into poetry we were not going to start with complicated poets or themes inaccessible to them, but how about a poem of princesses, fairies and dragons? The "Sonatina" by Rubén Darío, that poem that begins with "The princess is sad, what will the princess have?

Although Valentine is a market specialized in couples, when the family grows we can continue enjoying this special date. Or are we not going to take this opportunity for a Valentine's day getaway with children? If you are thinking of a hotel with a spa to go with your family, here are several proposals to do something different with the children.

One of the best ways to spend Christmas with your family is watching a movie that entertains young and old. We have more and more options to enjoy home theater (home formats, television, pay channels, online services ...) but Christmas holidays encourage you to go out and take a look at the billboard, looking for interesting premieres to see in the company of the kids.

Today we go on an excursion with the children to a very special corner in the interior of the province of Castellón: the Salto de la Novia en Navajas. Prepare to have a good time of sound nature and love legends. We are located in a mountain area that we can reach by taking a pleasant walk from the town of Castellón, a landscape that hides many curiosities, starting with the name.

I recognize that Hello Kitty is funny, but at low doses. The fact of staying in a hotel themed with the kitten scares me a little, especially seeing the suite with the image of Hello Kitty dominating the room, could I sleep peacefully? It is possible to check it out in Tokyo, where the hotel dedicated to Hello Kitty has opened.

If you live or travel to Madrid this weekend and still have no plan to do with the kids, we bring you a great recommendation. On November 29 and 30, the first edition of My First Film Festival is celebrated, an international children's film festival that will take place in Verdi cinemas.

Next weekend will take place in Madrid the international fair DIYShow, "Do It Yourself", something that lately is very fashionable with that striking name but that becomes the "handmade by yourself" of a lifetime. I was struck that in the DIY Fair there are multiple workshops for children.

If this weekend you want other plans other than Halloween themes, you will love this proposal. In Logroño Teatrea, a theater festival for children, is taking place until November 29. The shows aim to introduce children to the theater world through fun proposals, designed so that the little ones interact and become part of the performance, making their first steps as actors, perhaps as set designers.

I could find in your city in the next months a truck with a big red rabbit on top. This is MuMo, the mobile museum that brings contemporary art to children, which collects the work of 18 artists and will travel up to 12,000 kilometers in its three years of travel around the world. When "deployed" as a Transformer we find 45 square meters of exhibition that in Spain will travel 1.

One of the most incredible things that paternity gives you is to see the astonished face of your children in some situations. Seeing that eyes wide open and that smile on your face makes you reread the world around you again. I am not ashamed to admit that thanks to my children I have become interested in the environment that surrounds me and now I see it again differently.

Bearing in mind that babies are born programmed for dancing, that music fascinates them and that they have fun with their parents-actors, surely many babies and children will enjoy this festival designed for them. Theater, music, dance, plastic arts ... too much for babies? None of that, surely the little ones already enjoy art.

We have recently returned from spending a few days on the beach and whenever we go I return with the same feeling that I like the mountain more, that it does not offer water (unless you find it with lakes and rivers) but much more visual variety, more tranquility and more areas to explore. It is true that children have a good time at the beach, and there are parks there, but just as I am not a fan of the beach, I am not a fan of the parks either.

Children have a lot of imagination and often create their own stories when they play. Today they can go one step further and invent their own stories on a mobile device, with great detail. The children's application CreApp discounts allows children to create their stories in a few steps. It is an application for Android and IOS that in an intuitive and dynamic way, in a few steps, creates stories.

Surely beach days are a wonderful opportunity to spend time of fun and discovery with your children. We propose some activities and crafts for a beach day with the children, which link with the ones we told you last week. Children love the beach.

With this warmth, sure that a war of water balloons does not seem like a far-fetched idea and it is a great opportunity to spend some time entertaining in family with our children or watching how they play among them. The problem with all this is that the balloons have to be filled and above all, you have to tie them to the little ones and let's say it's not the best part of the game.

We love knowing that there are beaches prepared for families with babies (I wish there were many more!) And now we see other interesting initiatives. In this case with the "I read" campaign there are children's workshops on the beaches. From last July 1 until August 31, the beaches of San Nicolás and Sirena Loca in the municipality of Adra, Almería, have this campaign underway.

The colors fascinate children, and they also have a lot to do with moods, every little one has his favorite ... And the colors in art, in painting and sculpture? "Lemon yellow, lime green" is a workshop on colors for children at the National Sculpture Museum in Valladolid. The workshop, which is free, will take place tomorrow, July 17, 11.

We know that sometimes it is not easy to survive a day at the beach with a baby ... although we soon accommodate everything and it is not really that complicated. But to make life more comfortable for parents with babies, in Sant Antoni de Calonge (Girona, Spain) they have created a space for the little ones. This is the "Espai nadons" or "Baby Space", located under the shade of palm trees (which is always appreciated on the beach) and with a booth with changing tables for diapers or microwaves to heat food, among other facilities.

I have been plaid when I have seen it. I know adults unable to start a dishwasher and let's no longer say the capabilities of the five-year-old children around me, including my son. But this five-year-old Chinese boy drives an excavator shovel like a professional The young operator is called Wang Shuhan and was recorded by his father while driving a multi-ton excavator and capable of destroying the construction site where they were operating.

School holidays continue, it is a wonderful time for children where they can grow, play, imagine, go on adventures and also learn many new things accompanied by their family. We will continue to offer proposals to our readers so that they can make summer a wonderful stage with these ten more ideas for your children to learn on vacation.