Tips To Encourage Your Kids To Wear Face Masks

Staying at home for long is not possible anymore. We have to learn to live with Coronavirus around us. We have to adopt new living styles to stay safe and live our life normally. Wearing face masks in public places and avoid touching our faces frequently can help to bring the pandemic to end.

Everyone should wear face masks in public places (except those who are suffering from breathing problems and kids below the age of 3). You should encourage your kids to wear a face mask so that they do not get infected by this virus.

Children are at high risk of getting infected by COVID-19, therefore, you should leave them at home. In certain, you have to bring your kids with you and do not have any other options.

For these situations, you should train your kids to wear a face mask in public places. You should design an alluring custom face mask for your kids. Here, in this blog post, we are going to discuss various tips to encourage your kids to wear face mask:

1. Be Honest

Rather than telling irrelevant stories, you should be honest with them. But, make sure that you do not sound scary to them. No matter what is the age of your child, you should always encourage them to wear a face mask. Well, while telling the truth about coronavirus, you should not go into too many details.

Make sure that your truth is age-appropriate, but you should be open with your kids related to coronavirus talks. You should politely explain the reason for wearing a face mask. You should tell them that wearing a face mask is very important for their safety. There is no need to dramatize this situation.

2. Take Help Of Kids In Designing Mask

One of the best ways to encourage your kids for wearing a face mask is to involve them in the mask designing process. You should allow your kids to choose the right fabric out of various stuff you have. You can use an old t-shirt, an old pillowcase, or any old cloth for mask designing.

But, make sure that old cloth is of good quality and that can be used for creating a mask. Once they have selected the fabric, allow them to create a design on the mask with the help of fabric paint. Your kids will love to wear the face masks that they have designed.

3. Transform Face Masks Into Costume

You can transform your kid's face mask into an attractive costume. You should draw the favorite character of your kids on the masks and let them add colors to the design with the help of fabric paint. For instance, design Spiderman and let your kids add color.

If you are not good at designing, then you can implement simple tricks to transform your mask into a costume. You can paint the nose and whiskers of the face masks to make them look like rabbits, dogs, or cats. You can pair these kinds of face masks with your Halloween dress.

4. Prepare A Mask For Your Friend

Most kids love to wear masks only when his or her buddy will wear them. So, you should tell your kids to design one more face mask for his/her buddy. The design of the face mask of your kid and his/her buddy should be the same. You can customize your face mask and also design similar face masks for your friends.

5. Go For Trial Run

Wearing a face mask is one of the new experiences for various kids. Wearing a face mask is not easy because it makes us uncomfortable. Thus, your kid may complain for first few times after wearing the face mask.

They may complain that the face mask is scratchy or they are feeling problems in breathing. Initially, most kids may not love the idea of wearing face masks. Therefore, you should let your kid wear a face mask for at least 30 minutes. Make your kid feel comfortable with a face mask. Also, you should teach them the right way to wear a mask and take it off.

6. Offer Reward

Offering rewards will encourage your kids to do something with a positive attitude. You can implement a similar technique here to motivate your children to wear face masks in public places. You should offer incentives to your kids for wearing face masks. Make sure that the reward is alluring for your kids. You can choose to offer ice cream, cake, hot chocolate shake, favorite toy, or anything else.

7. Play A Game

You can transform the mask-wearing task into a game. For instance, who can go the longest by keeping these masks on his/her face? You should give points to the winner and play this game on regular basis or whenever you need to take your kid outside of the house.