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We Have Guests

Text: Lana Zreik illustrations: Banan Hummus

How does Tamara react when her mother announces someone is coming to visit? She is happy and enthusiastic but also worried and starts to plan an entertainment program that goes terribly wrong! A humorous text that describes children’s common experience of communicating with family guests

Family Activities

Do you know the charming Tamara, who gets excited about visiting guests, and cheers up the whole house? We may smile as we read the book and think of one of our children.

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Dear Parents,

Do you know the charming Tamara, who gets excited about visiting guests, and cheers up the whole house? We may smile as we read the book and think of one of our children.

Many children get highly excited by a potential event, such as their birthday, visiting friends, or traveling to a new place, and they may get enthusiastic when observing a natural phenomenon or an object they see for the first time. We notice them actively jumping, continuously talking, making dozens of plans, and finding it hard to wait.

This may be due to the very nature of the curious child, who is eager to engage in new learning experiences, and it may be a stage when the child learns the skill of self-control. This is a skill that many children learn at various intervals and in different ways. Our support for our child during this process is very important, starting from our appreciation of their enthusiasm and their energies, to understanding and helping them in dealing with what excites them in a way that allows them to enjoy, learn and communicate positively with others around him.

Family Activities

  • We have guests! We can have a conversation with our child about the preparations we make to receive guests in our family. How does our child prepare to receive their friends?
  • We can talk about what excites our child: is it vising a place they love? Or playing with friends they like? Or reading a new story with us?
  • We can stop and look at the text and drawings on page 27. How does Tamara feel?
  • A workshop for preparing dyes for fabrics from fruits and vegetables! Red from beetroot and strawberry Orange and yellow from onion peel Green from spinach Blue from red cabbage, adding a little sodium carbonate. We boil a cup of fruits or vegetables with two cups of water on low heat for an hour, then we drain the mixture, and we will get a wonderful fabric dye, which our child may want to use to renew the colors of an old shirt!
  • Colorful finger paint! If we mix 1/2 cup of flour with a cup of dye solution and a pinch of salt, we get a bright and healthy finger paint color.
  • Enjoy your reading and activities!

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