Geography Track – German Castles

Anna has chosen a Germany landmark from her landmark stack for this week – a famous Neuschwanstein (goodness  – I can’t pronounce it at all, even after my husband said it for me several times). We already did castles for England fairly recently, but I thought that Anna would enjoy revisiting this topic again. I had a set of two Playmobil knights saved in my “for later” stash, and I thought that it will work perfectly for the castle I made out of a cardboard box. Besides, Playmobil comes… that’s right, from Germany!

I was hoping that Anna will decorate this castle, but she was not in the least interested. Instead she wanted to furnish the castle and she kept insisting that her knights absolutely need to have a TV to watch. Unfortunately, I was busy with work, and my husband wasn’t home, so I told her to either come up with something on her own or wait. When she started to throw things in frustration instead, I had to separate her from her new castle and send her to her room to “cool down”. After all the screaming, crying and complaining were done with (and my work was done), it was time to make dinner and she cheerfully helped me to make frikadellen (aka meatballs). They turned out merely OK, but Anna was willing to eat a couple (she is not a big fan of meat).

Hopefully, the rest of our German week will go better than this stormy start. In the meantime, share your adventures in time and space at Geography/History exchange hosted by Children Grow, Children Explore, Children Learn.