Ideas kit

The ideas kit is a suitcase designed both for educators and parents that is full of game suggestions for improving the German language skills of preschool children. The suitcase is intended for use in daycare centers and paediatric practices and is specifically intended to help parents, who themselves have difficulties with the German language, to support their children in learning German. 
The idea to expand the play options for integrating language development and education in families into everyday life originated in 2019 in the Education Agency (Bildungsbüro) of the district Oberbergischer Kreis. This is where the ideas kit was finally developed and initially used as a prototype in four daycare centers, with a positive response. The work materials in the ideas kit are generally easy to understand and offer a comprehensive group of topics for discussions with parents. 
The Hans Hermann Voss Foundation supported the production of 200 ideas kits, which were distributed throughout the Oberbergischer Kreis district by summer 2021. The distribution of the ideas kit was linked to the participation of one person per daycare center in a half-day symposium.