on October 11th, 2011%
Remember the easy sewing project from yesterday, showing how to make a bag? It was a fun project for little fingers but we turned it into a springboard for another activity too, by making a scavenger hunt on the reverse side.
First we had a blast of ideas for all the things we might find on our nature walk . The children shouted them out and we put all the ideas down on some stickers. Some wrote them down, some drew pictures and I scribed the others. Here a some of the things they came up with: Read more »
on August 31st, 2011%
An exciting thing about the Just So Festival was there was always something fabulous waiting around the next turn of the forest path. There were lots of large scale events such as a beach and a Mad Hatter’s tea party, but if you kept your eyes peeled there were lots of little secrets to discover too. Read more »
on August 30th, 2011%
Following on from yesterday’s suggestion to take your art outside, today’s ideas from the Just So Festival are for imaginative outside play spaces.
The festival is set in 65 acres of oak woodland, with glades creating natural play spaces, but ideas can be borrowed and adapted to fit smaller at-home or school spaces. Read more »
on August 29th, 2011%
How’s this for a dream day?
Start your morning by hugging the Gruffalo (yes, the real one), make a lantern from willow branches and a princess doll from bits of junk, practise some yoga in a woodland glade, act in a Gory Story, discover the Fairy Queen down a secret woodland path, build an enormous sandcastle with new friends and then all jump on top of it, find the perfect climbing tree, warm yourself beside a camp fire and then round off the night dancing at a retro disco to some groovy tracks (with your dad!)
All part of an ordinary day at Read more »
on August 1st, 2011%
If you’re out and about this summer grab a map and add some literacy lessons.
1. Giving a map to the children and following your route as you go is a great lesson in geography. Look out for landmarks, talk about left and right and the points of the compass. What words can they spot on the map to match up with what they see on their journey? Read more »
on July 28th, 2011%
Welcome to the Carnival of Outdoor Play!
This week’s Play Academy link-up is all about Outdoor Play. Please share an idea for any kind of outdoor play – a new post or one from your archive. Games, science, crafts, literacy, exploring, art – what outdoor play activities do you enjoy? Help us build a fantastic store of outdoor play ideas we can use whenever we need a new idea.
1. Please link to your actual post, not your homepage.
2. Please add a text link from your page through to this carnival, to invite others to come and share the ideas.
3. Go and visit some of the other blogs listed and say hi.
4. Grab an idea and go play!
5. Don’t forget to come back next Friday to join in with our regular ‘anything goes’ link-up. Read more »
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