5 worksheets, 20 pages · parent guide, 9 pages
Four to six is the age hygiene becomes a set of habits a child can own.
It is not yet the age they can reason about why — so this course does not explain mechanisms.
It builds five habits, each one attached to something the child can see, feel, time or do.
Something invisible is not real to a five-year-old yet.
Telling them germs are on their hands buys you nothing, because there is nothing there to look at.
So the first worksheet makes it visible instead, with glitter, and they watch it go everywhere their hands go.
You read every line out loud. Your child touches, points, draws, times things and says the answers.
What's inside:
· My Hands Go Everywhere — they touch five things and name them, then the glitter test: on the hands, three normal activities, then finding where it ended up. Most children find some on their own face. Ends at the sink with water alone, so it is still there
· Soap And A Song — soap as a helper with sticky hands: it grabs on, the water carries the whole lot away. Washing timed by you, first the way they normally do it, then for two rounds of a song they choose. The five spots people miss, and one fact: cold water works as well as warm
· My Teeth — they feel the sticky stuff with their tongue, then learn the brush scrubs it off, which is why rubbing matters. Two minutes, twice a day, timed. Spit it out, don't swallow it, and only a small amount on the brush — put on by you. And three things to tell a grown-up straight away
· Into My Elbow — builds on worksheet 1: if hands take things everywhere, an elbow touches almost nothing. Practiced standing up.
Tissues in three steps, and they go and find the nearest trash can so they know where it is
· Washing All Of Me — a quick wash against a real one, the parts that are hard to see, and their own jobs.
Ends with the whole sentence: "Can you look at something?" — said out loud, then said to you for real, as practice Every page has something to stand up and do.
There is no page that is only reading.
5 worksheets, 20 pages · parent guide, 9 pages
Four to six is the age hygiene becomes a set of habits a child can own.
It is not yet the age they can reason about why — so this course does not explain mechanisms.
It builds five habits, each one attached to something the child can see, feel, time or do.
Something invisible is not real to a five-year-old yet.
Telling them germs are on their hands buys you nothing, because there is nothing there to look at.
So the first worksheet makes it visible instead, with glitter, and they watch it go everywhere their hands go.
You read every line out loud. Your child touches, points, draws, times things and says the answers.
What's inside:
· My Hands Go Everywhere — they touch five things and name them, then the glitter test: on the hands, three normal activities, then finding where it ended up. Most children find some on their own face. Ends at the sink with water alone, so it is still there
· Soap And A Song — soap as a helper with sticky hands: it grabs on, the water carries the whole lot away. Washing timed by you, first the way they normally do it, then for two rounds of a song they choose. The five spots people miss, and one fact: cold water works as well as warm
· My Teeth — they feel the sticky stuff with their tongue, then learn the brush scrubs it off, which is why rubbing matters. Two minutes, twice a day, timed. Spit it out, don't swallow it, and only a small amount on the brush — put on by you. And three things to tell a grown-up straight away
· Into My Elbow — builds on worksheet 1: if hands take things everywhere, an elbow touches almost nothing. Practiced standing up.
Tissues in three steps, and they go and find the nearest trash can so they know where it is
· Washing All Of Me — a quick wash against a real one, the parts that are hard to see, and their own jobs.
Ends with the whole sentence: "Can you look at something?" — said out loud, then said to you for real, as practice Every page has something to stand up and do.
There is no page that is only reading.
