The Arda kindergarten AU meme

[durinsdaughter]

~ Arda nursery, kindergarten and pre-school ~


[source]

1. You are a kid! Maybe you are a toddler in nursery or already in pre-school, or anywhere in between, but you are a kid who comes here more or less regularly, interacts with other kids and the teachers and the nurse and is dropped off in the morning and picked up sometime later during the day.
2. You are an adult! Maybe you are a teacher, or doing an internship, or you are a parent or older sibling picking up their kid, or the nurse or whatever an adult would do in such a place...
...of course you can change which one your muse is depending on whom they thread with.

And as for scenarios - you can of course do whatever you want, but a few ideas:
I. The first day in kindregarten. Being left behind by mommy or daddy, encountering new friends, so many things to discover...
II. Nap time! Maybe you just need to tell your friend this story before falling asleep. Or your teddy has gotten lost. And as for adults, oftentimes the parents will be present for the first few days of nursery to ease their child into things. Don't glare too many daggers at that other parents who is easing their child into the situation at the same time, you might make a child cry... Cuddling with their child is a much nicer option, yes?
III. Playground! Maybe you build a sandcastle together, or maybe you kick each others sandcastle down, who knows? Or maybe you are in the crafts room, or in the dolls corner, or you are having a class...
IV. Uh oh. Something isn't going too smoothly, and you have to mend things with another child or explain yourself to a teacher or maybe discuss a case with another staff member, or even call in the parents...
V. Field trip! Or maybe it is some holiday, or a birthday/conception day is happening in your group, or or or...

Comments

Kíli

[kurdith]

[Be warned: he's a hellion]

1-V

[goldenplaits]

[Field trip to the zoo! Clearly the group is moving too slowly, so two little boys have decided to go ahead and visit the jungle house on their own. Lions! And tigers! And snakes! And giant spiders!

In hindsight, charging ahead without checking where the group went might have been a bad idea, but no regrets, the jungle house is awesome. Too bad they can barely look into the boxes that hold the smaller spiders, even with the help of the stools that have been placed all over for the peruse of children.

So obviously stacking two such stools on top of each other is the safe option. They're working on heaving a second stool on top of the first right now.]

Dís

[movingon]

Available as teacher, child and parent.

[kurdith]

[CLINGING SO TIGHTLY TO AMAD'S LEGS YEP]

Fëanor

[lightcatcher]

[sylvanguard]

[Have a red headed bitty not your child run up to you and hide behind you. Obviously she is is playing hide and seek or tag and you are convenient cover.]

1/II

[childofthemusic]

[ Makalaure is most distressed - Feanor and Nerdanel usually do most of their own child raising, so to be told that he is to be left with other children and strangers is most distressing, and the normally fairly easily placated elfing is a wailing clinging siren attached to Feanor's legs ]

[thebalrogslayer]

[There's an elfling watching Fëanor, and it's not one of his. Glorfindel is on his very best behaviour, though, staying silent as his sea green eyes bore a hole in the back of his cousin's head. He wants something, and he's willing to do what it takes to get it, even resisting the urge to fidget. Fëanor had better appreciate the will power that takes. He will wait as long as it takes.

Or at least until dinner time.]

Glorfindel

[thebalrogslayer]

1 kid

[If there is trouble, you can be sure that Glorfindel is behind it. He's well known as a ringleader for all kinds of mostly innocent pranks. But even the teachers have to admit that there's something charismatic about the boy, and he seems to have a knack for coming up with playful little jokes. But when push comes to shove he's kind, and will never stand for bullying. He might not be the most studious of boys, but he's certainly not the worst to teach, even trying to get him to settle down for a nap is near impossible.]

2 adult

[Glorfindel is one of those teacher assistants that people remember, all the way up until adulthood. He's one of the kids, always down for playtime. He'll put up with being a barbie doll, he'll be buried in the sandpit without complaint, and if there's a food fight he might just be found aiming at one of the more serious of his coworkers. But he's also a mediator in a fight, and a shoulder to cry on, a defender of the weak. There will be no bullying in his classroom.]

kidlets

[kurdith]

[Hi Glorfindel.

Have a Dwarf tackling you in the play area and literally trying to nom your head]

2!

[childofthemusic]

[ Maglor's a bit of a strange kid, easily distracted by anything bright and shiny, but especially by sound and music - he's forever humming and wandering off to listen to the birds or the water or the wind. He isn't usually bullied, his status sees to that, but he doesn't have many friends either, and his parents are grateful for Glorfindel's knack of engaging him anyway. He's wandered off again, vanished in the middle of the day - Glorfindel will find him sitting by the fountain, humming a counterpoint to the splashing water ]

Maglor | Bitty or Adult, just ask~

[childofthemusic]

teacher!

[goldenplaits]

[Tug

tugtugtugtug

at Makalaurë's sleeve or pants leg or whatever is in reach for the bitty one. There's a very earnest expression on Findekáno's face. This is an important mission that he is on, okay.]

hello, teacher, how are you

[prekindled]

[Somehow, Alice has climbed atop of a shelf that seems remotely impossible to get up to. She's notorious for this, oftentimes encouraged by her elder sister for her own amusement. Much to Lorina Liddell's dismay; she'll often burst in frazzled claiming the little girl is going to give her a heart attack. What's she up here for?

Nothing completely special, she has figured this is the best way to look at the outside world because little Alice is that much of a day dreamer and decided to up and leave any sort of lessons.]

Fingon | Bitty or adult, just tell me which one you'd like to have

[goldenplaits]

Ariel Bitty or adult!

[sylvanguard]

[Bitty she is a tomboy. Adult she doesn't know how to kid very well yet but is a quick learner!]

Adult! For timeline shenanigans

[treehugging]

[Runs up from behind, hugs legs, giggles.]

bitty!

[kurdith]

[Have a tiny Dwarfling coming up to you and offering you a cookie!]

Legolas Bitty or Adult!

[arrowpoint]

((bitty replies will be made by treehugging))

bitty!

[kurdith]

[Because tiny!Kíli stealing Legolas's ball is cuter]

Lindir Adult / Caretaker

[figwit]

[kurdith]

[Hi Lindir.

Have a baby Dwarf tackling your legs and trying to climb you]

Thranduil | The Hobbit

[elf_king]

Either bitty or adult. Either way he is a brat.]

[figwit]

[Nervously walks up to, a touch pale. He opens his mouth to speak but hesitates.]

Celebrían

[westboundwounded]

((Either as teacher/mom...

Or adorable little girl with long silver braids and bright grey eyes wanting to get into everything))

BITTY

[sylvanguard]

[Oh another girl to play with! Tauriel bounds over, forgetting things like personal space and waves enthusiastically.] Hi m' Tauriel

[lightcatcher]

If you stop doing something and come back to it later it will be harder or impossible to pick up again where you were.

[Duh. Adults ahould know that. Have a look of all the disapproval and "u dumb" that a kindergartener can muster.]

Bitty(er) hellions or just as bad adults!

[elflings]

BITTY

[sylvanguard]

[Tauriel comes up to them, sort of staring. She doesn't mean to, but they both look alike so it's really surprising to her.]

Are you from a mirror?!