Teaching the 16 federal states to the children

Sooner or later every child has to visit the 16 federal states of Germany to learn. The sooner you support your child with it, the easier it will be for your child to go to school and it will even be able to help other children.

Learn the 16 federal states with donkey bridges

• A well-known donkey bridge reads "Fast rabbits gnaw particularly wet hay, round pigs sizzle Bavarian Thuringian sausages, sexy hitchhikers brunch at McPommes. (If the word sexy is not child-friendly for you, you can replace it with "shy").
• The parts of the sentence have the following meanings: Sch = Schleswig Holstein, Ha = Hamburg, N = Lower Saxony, B = Bremen, N = NRW, He = Hessen, R = Rhineland-Palatinate, S = Saarland, B = sizzle, Bavarian = Bavaria, Thuringian = Thuringia, sexy = Saxony, sexy hitchhiker = Saxony Anhalt, br = Brandenburg, be = Berlin, McPommes = Mecklenburg Western Pomerania.

More creative ideas

• If your child is still too young for such long sentences, there are other ways to introduce them to the 16 federal states.
• You can find signs with the everywhere in the apartment Names of the federal states. For example, the bathroom could be Brandenburg and part of the hallway leads from Saarland to Rhineland-Palatinate. Even if the signs are soon no longer consciously perceived, knowledge is consolidated even more subconsciously.


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• Or just cook regionally. Every day you can cook a typical dish from a different state and tell your children about this state. By stimulating the senses (smell, taste), the information is better established.
• Alternatively, you can also hang up a map of Germany in the child's room in the classic way. This is also effective, but of course not quite as noticeable at first as with the other ideas.