The Arda kindergarten AU meme

[durinsdaughter]

~ Arda nursery, kindergarten and pre-school ~


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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...

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[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.]

[kurdith]

You sure this is a good idea?

[Just asking. Generally speaking getting taller ends badly for Kíli. He always falls]

[goldenplaits]

The snakes in there are really pretty! I was here before with ada and this always works for me!

[He pats the stool.] I'll hold them for you if you want. [Too bad that little dwarflings are heavier than little elflings...]

[kurdith]

I'll fall! I'm way heavier than you!

[His boots are probably heavier than the Elves, if you ask him]

[goldenplaits]

[Oh.

A dejected look follows, but Kíli does have a point, and the little elf looks around thoughtfully, trying to see if he can figure out a better way to getting up high enough to be able to see into the glass boxes. He's not giving up so easily!]