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✨Creative Educator / Playful Exploration Friend for a 6-Year-Old

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The experience

Join a joyful family-based learning experience in the mountains of Bulgaria!
We’re looking for a kind, proactive, creative person to help care for and engage our 5-year-old son, Simeon. He’s curious, energetic, and loves science experiments, building, crafting, music, and exploring nature.
Your help will include playful creative activities, exploring projects, support for learning, and general childcare — all guided by curiosity.


What you offer

6 hours of help per day

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.


What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Restaurants: Get discounts at nearby restaurants.

Discounts on Pubs: Get discounts at nearby pubs.

Discounts on Drinks: Get discounts for drinks and beverages from our bar.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely


Requirements

Fluent English

Between 18 and 60 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers


What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa


Program Details

Our home is a creative, nature-connected space where art, fashion, and education meet. This help is focused on creative play and exploration, while also including general childcare and learning support. You’ll be supporting the early development of a highly curious and energetic child through daily playful creative and STEM activities, simple physics and chemistry experiments, LEGO building, problem-solving games, and imaginative, improvisational play built around a mission, a problem to solve, and characters that bring the story to life — all through learning by discovery.

You’ll be part of a unique lifestyle project led by two fashion designers and artists. Volunteers stay in a nearby apartment in Sandanski city, with daily transfers provided — all covered by us.

You’ll have your own private room in a fully equipped, cozy apartment, daily connection with the family, and the chance to actively contribute to a nurturing learning environment built around curiosity, experiments, creativity, and care.


Activities & Shift

Volunteers help 5–6 hours per day. Shifts are flexible (morning or afternoon), and include:

- Creative science learning: simple physics experiments, mini engineering challenges, LEGO building, and playful “cosmic” adventures 🚀
- Imaginative, improvisational play where there is a mission, a problem to solve, and characters to bring the story to life.
- Nature walks, outdoor play & physical activity (movement, coordination, and discovering science in nature) 🌿
- Participating in artistic projects: drawing, crafting, and creative expression 🎨
- Reading, storytelling, and support with early literacy and math
- Optional support during online school lessons (helping with focus, transitions, and understanding) 💻
- Mindfulness & body awareness: gentle yoga, breathing exercises, grounding moments, and simple meditation (very welcome) 🧘‍♂️

We appreciate Montessori-inspired approaches, but curiosity, initiative, presence, and the ability to actively engage are what matter most. Coming prepared with fun, creative ideas and planning activities around the child’s interests is highly encouraged.


Rules

Respectful, positive energy is essential 😊
No smoking or loud behavior during child time
Volunteers should be clean, organized & engaged
During Simeon time, we expect full presence and strong focus on the activities
English is required
Creativity and curiosity are highly valued