In the past few days, the new era civilization practice institutes (stations), community activity rooms, museums, and libraries in Lanzhou City have been filled with warmth and laughter. This year's winter vacation, all districts and counties in our city integrated resources and carefully planned, focusing on the themes of traditional cultural inheritance, safety and health education, heart-warming holiday trusteeship, and diversified practical exploration, and launched a series of rich and novel forms of minors' holiday activities, turning the winter vacation into a "golden time" for children to strengthen their physique, enlighten their minds, cultivate their sentiments, and grow up happily.
Traditional culture comes alive
Nourishing cultural confidence in the experience
This winter vacation, traditional culture is no longer static knowledge in books, but is transformed into a vivid experience that can be felt and created in the hands of children. From Laba and Spring Festival folklore to intangible cultural heritage skills, immersive activities have revitalized traditional culture in childlike fun.
At the Yongdeng County Museum, in the activity of "Exploring Laba Folk Customs and Inheriting Cultural Roots", the children listened to the origin story of Laba while pasting red dates and round longan into childlike Laba porridge stickers. In the Anning District Library, the children followed the guidance of the picture book "Fragrant and Sweet Laba Porridge" and collaged the bowl of "thanksgiving porridge" in their hearts with colored clay and grains. The Sanchuankou community in Shidong Town, Gaolan County, staged a warm intergenerational inheritance: the old people told their grandchildren the meaning of Laba, and the grandparents and grandchildren worked together to integrate Laba elements with zodiac symbols to make characteristic handmade photo frames.
The inheritance of intangible cultural heritage skills is also in full swing. In Xijin Community, Cultural Palace Community and other places in Dunhuang Road Street, Qilihe District, representative inheritors of paper-cutting led children to turn ordinary colored paper into lifelike window grilles. The children of the North Courtyard Community of Yanjiaping Street experienced the "New Year's flavor in rubbing" and touched the lines of history in the ancient process of fixing, inking, and rubbing. The community of Matan South Road, Tumendun Street, linked up with the Gansu Bamboo Slip Museum to carry out activities, and the children dressed in Hanfu performed sitcoms, compiled bamboo slips and inscribed poems by themselves, and cracked the "Silk Road Code" in a dialogue that spanned ancient and modern times. These activities go beyond simple knowledge impartation, allowing traditional culture to infiltrate the hearts through fingertips and ignite children's love and ambition to inherit excellent Chinese culture.
Comprehensive safety and health care
Escort physical and mental growth
Pay attention to the all-round development of minors, and physical and mental health is the cornerstone. This year's winter vacation, a series of activities focusing on mental health, vision protection, and safety education were carried out in a way that children liked to hear and see, building a solid defense line for their growth.
In the Chengbei Community of Shidong Town, Gaolan County, the theme activity of "Decoding Emotional Little Monsters and Unlocking Positive Energy of the Soul" is unique. Volunteers compared stress to "balloons that will get bigger" and guided the children to identify and express anxiety and exhaustion. Games like "Emotional Wheel" and "Pressure Balloon Popping" make it fun to release stress. Particularly ingenious is the "Emotions on the Tip of the Tongue" link, where five flavors of candy allow children to intuitively experience different emotions through taste and learn to accept and care for each inner feeling.
Physical health is also a concern. The Community United Eye Hospital of Xizhan East Road, Xizhan Street, Qilihe District carried out lectures on myopia prevention and control, combining fun interaction with free examinations to "escort" the visual health of adolescents. The Renjiazhuang Street West Community of Dunhuang Road Street launched the "Smile Guardian Plan" oral health public welfare activity, integrating dental knowledge into interactive exploration, and the seeds of safety awareness were also sown during the holidays. Yanjiaping Street Railway Institute Community, Xiaoxihu West Street Community, etc. taught traffic protection, fire protection, drowning prevention and other safety knowledge in simple terms through case explanations, scenario simulations, knowledge competitions, etc., and the humorous explanation of the traffic police uncle made the children remember the traffic rules in laughter.
Holiday trusteeship "warms" people's hearts
Solve the problem of family care
For many dual-income families, especially those with new forms of employment, holiday care for children is a practical problem. Many counties and districts in our city have taken the initiative to make custody services a heart-warming project.
The winter vacation child care class run by the Chengguan District Federation of Trade Unions and Zhangye Road Street has become a warm current this winter. The care class clarifies the positioning of "inclusiveness, coverage, and public welfare", implements free trusteeship, and gives priority to the children of new employment groups such as couriers, takeaway riders, and online car-hailing drivers, as well as children from dual-income families.
"In the past, no one took care of the children during the winter vacation, and I always thought about it when I ran takeaway, but now the care class is free and reliable, which really helps us solve the big problem!" The emotion of the takeaway rider Master Wang expressed the voices of parents. The street integrates the community party and mass service center, the new era civilization practice station and other positions, equipped with professional social workers and volunteers, and provides homework tutoring, handmade painting and other courses, so that children can "learn happily and play with peace of mind".
Zaolin West Community, Anning District, opened a custodial class of "Jujube Forest Dream, Winter Tibetan Fun, Childish Language and Fragrance", with the original intention of solving the problem of holiday care, arranging social workers and college student volunteers to carry out homework tutoring every day, and "enjoy 15 minutes" of individual display and group game sessions to allow children to quickly integrate into the collective.
There are many such heart-warming care classes, and the "Happy Growth Camp" of the Youth League Provincial Committee gives priority to serving the children of new employment groups and dual-income families, providing all-round services such as learning counseling, creative handicrafts, and sports; The "Panshi Youth" trusteeship class of Shanzishi Community in Chengguan District offers diversified courses such as intangible cultural heritage experience and safety training; The Yongdeng County Red Scarf Love Care Class is equipped with 5 college students "little teachers" and 1 volunteer to ensure safe and orderly services; The city's 87 red scarf winter vacation love care classes have benefited nearly 4,000 children and achieved the service goal of "being able to hold, manage well, and learn happily".
Practice and explore "expanding" the world
Practice your skills in a vast space
Winter vacation is a valuable time to get out of school, get in touch with society, and explore the world. All counties and districts in our city actively build platforms to guide children to broaden their horizons and increase their talents in science and technology, art, sports, and social practice.
In the Science Museum of Lanbodong Community, Pioneer Road Street, Xigu District, projects such as 3D car simulation driving, "angry crown" electrostatics, and VR experience allow children to feel the mysteries of science in exclamation and laughter.
The closing link of the "Colorful Holiday Benefit Children's Growth" activity in Qilihe District, the "Robot Green Showdown", combines programming and competition to exercise children's logical thinking and teamwork skills. The clay creative activities of the Leyuan Social Work Service Center in Qilihe District allow children to pinch the concepts of friendship and environmental protection into their works.
In the Gansu Provincial Women and Children's Service Center, physical fitness projects such as obstacle running, plank, and parent-child tug-of-war are progressing layer by layer. "From the beginning, some children did not dare to try hurdles, and then took the initiative to challenge themselves; From gritting their teeth to tolerating each other, the children interpreted the meaning of 'struggle' with their actions. Coach Wang, who is in charge of physical guidance, sighed.
This winter vacation, Lanzhou City has created a growth paradise without walls for minors with careful planning, resource integration and sincere service. These activities are like seeds, sown in the hearts of children, nurturing the consciousness of cultural inheritance, the concept of healthy life, and the courage to face the future, and together paint a heart-warming picture of people's livelihood temperature and the all-round development of young people at the same frequency. (Reporter Zhou Dongnan, Ge Qiang, Yan Na, Anna, Dong Yongqian, Peng Meijiao, text/photo)