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Have you tried to teach your kids how to sweep, but find it never works?

Well, here's the thing:

You're doing it wrong.

You probably did it like this 👆🏽👆🏿👆🏾👆🏻

You gave them the broom and the dustpan, and some sort of barrier, maybe you taped a line, a tray.

***But here's what you're gonna do next time,

because the problem comes,

when you give them both things.

They tried to do the broom and get it in the dustpan, and it's just, it's too much.

They need to get good with the broom first.

When they have the broom and they can get the hang of moving the items from one spot to the other to the other (Before the dust pans even introduced) — They get so much better at moving the broom! So that by the time they're doing the dustpan, they understand how to get them into a pile BEFORE they start trying to sweep them into the dustpan.

Set something up like this for your kids.

⭐️Create a little practice course for your students.
*Show your kids how to keep the broom straight up and down when they sweep the items!

Let them master the broom.

And then they're going to get the dustpan they're gonna put it all together and they're going to be Great Little Sweepers!!!!

And then, the next time someone spills a whole cup of beads, you're going to be so proud to watch all your little sweepers go to work and actually get the beads picked up.

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^^^I did it on a white board with sharpie. I drew circles with arrows to show them where to sweep the items next. After they moved the pile 3 times, the last step was to use the dust pan and put it all into a bowl.

You can create something similar on the floor or on a table!
Let your kids master the broom and then by the time they’ve swept the items into 3 different piles, they will be getting the hang of the broom and they can handle the dustpan…

Let them try this again and again with different items!

They can practice sweeping pom poms, rocks, beads, SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO PRACTICE, and they all bring a new twist! Beads will roll a little, that makes it exciting… rocks are heavier so that’s a different challenge than the pom poms— but the bottom line, the more sweeping practice, the better!