Today I’m joining in with the 100 Days of Play fiesta. One hundred bloggers from right around the world are bringing you a fabulous, frugal, fun play idea each day from 1st April through to 20th July. Read on for my favourite ways to use chalk, with ideas for art, games, math, literacy, action games and puppets.
Exciting news to start the month :: you can now download one of the NurtureStore free kids apps, which means you can use all our ideas, straight from your phone, any time you need them!
If you’re wondering what to do with the kids tomorrow, you’re planning a playdate, you need some ideas to help your kids with their spellings or you’re stuck in on a rainy day in need of a rescue idea – NurtureStore is here!
Follow these easy-peasy instructions and you can have a nice little NurtureStore app on your iPhone or iPod Touch, which with one click brings you straight here, to see our latest ideas and to dive into our huge archive of kids activities.
Bring on the autumn! There’s not much better to lift your spirits than jumping through a big pile of crunchy leaves with your kids. While you’re out and about enjoying the new season, collect up some leaves and bring them home to play these seasonal letter and maths games.
The Garden Classroom: 52 kids gardening activities ebook is now published and available for you to buy.
The Garden Classroom brings you fifty-two creative and playful activities, giving you a whole year’s worth of garden-based projects to enjoy with your children. Come rain or shine, and whatever the season, there are ideas you can use to give your children a connection to nature all year round.
With ideas for bringing art, craft, science, math, literacy and play to your outdoor space I think you will love The Garden Classroom. Take a look at this video and I’ll show you some of the ideas from the book.
Why you’ll love The Garden Classroom
:: The Garden Classroom gives you a year’s worth of resources you can use to give your children a connection with nature. You will have activities to teach science, math, and literacy using the outdoors as your classroom. You will also have clever and creative ideas to enjoy arts, crafts and play with your children.
:: It’s filled with beautiful, full-color photographs bringing each activity to life and clearly showing you each project. It’s a pleasure to read and practical: let your children browse through the pages and pick their favorite project, then print off the individual pages and you’re ready to start.
:: Suitable for children aged from two through to ten, every activity in the book has been tried, tested and approved by children – my own daughters, the children I have worked with in my home day-care setting, and those in the school gardening project that I run.
:: Covering all seasons, and all weathers, there’s a project you could try today, and enough ideas to last you all year long. You can decide to do an activity each week, or group them together as a block of learning.
:: No gardening expertise is required! The book gives you lots of tips to grow flowers, fruit and vegetables with your children. Many of the activities are centred on enjoying the outdoors and using whatever outdoor space you have – whether that’s a large garden, a tiny plot like my own, a school garden area, a window box or even your local park or woodland. The projects don’t have to all be done outside either – most of them will work just as well within a classroom setting.
:: Every activity is clearly laid out with beautiful photographs and step-by-step instructions. It includes many ideas to vary the projects and extend them to suit your own children’s ages, stages and interests.
:: The ebook will be delivered as soon as you place your order, via e-mail as a downloadable pdf document. This allows you to browse the book on your computer and select the activities you want to try first. You can choose to print the whole book, for reference or to add in to your planning files. You can also print individual projects, so you have the step-by-step guides for each activity to take with you into the garden or classroom.
Just $9.99 for 52 fun, creative and educational activities. That’s around £5.60 for UK readers and as the book is bought via paypal you can buy a copy wherever you are in the world. Click the button below to get your copy of The Garden Classroom e-book right now as an instant download which you can begin to use straight away.
The book will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your paypal account. The delivery system gives you 5 attempts at download within 120 hours, so you can buy now and do the download a little later if you prefer.
Once you’ve got your copy, head over to my facebook page and let me know which activity you pick to try first!
