Dear parents,

The book addresses new beginnings for children and the mixed emotions that come with transitioning to a new place, such as feelings of excitement, anticipation, anxiety, and tension all at once. Supporting children, validating their feelings of anxiety and stress, gently exploring their hidden capabilities, reassuring them, reminding them of situations where they were brave, overcame difficulties and fears, are all factors that help our child boost their self-confidence, gather strength, courage, and facilitate their adaptation.

This book also encourages the development of our children’s imagination, broadening their awareness and perspectives. We can do this by suggesting various uses of the same simple, universally available tool. Using play and imagination helps develop our child’s learning skills, support emotional development, enrich their thoughts, contribute to developing their ability to find creative solutions to problems, all while serving as an outlet for our child.

Let’s Talk

• About New Beginnings: we can talk to our children about the feelings they had when they encountered new experiences such as their first day at school, a new class, or a friend’s birthday. We can explore ways that helped them adapt together.
• About Diverse experiences: The box captured for us rituals and family experiences, such as arranging winter clothes, playing in the courtyard, enjoying ice cream, preparing thyme pies (Manaquesh), and playing with the box. We can ask our child: Which rituals resemble those in our home, and which ones are different? We can describe them together.

Let’s Play

• Let’s use our imagination and guess! We can sit in a group, and each person takes turns silently acting out an object (such as a cup, cat, lion, hammer), and others have to guess what this object is, and so on (time can be specified).
• The magic of imagination: We can gather various objects (like hat, a pot, a scarf…) and explore diverse uses for the object, or imagine it as something else.

Let’s Create

• Recycling: The book sheds light on the topic of recycling. We can also create a bag from old pants for example, or plant pots from pickle jars, etc.

Let’s Enrich our Language

• We can choose another object as the “hero” of the story, such as a bag or clothes, and we can creatively write a story about it from its perspective.

Enjoy your reading!