Autumn Play Planner: fun ideas for every day this week

 

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Autumn sensory tub with squirrels

autumn sensory tub ideas

Using all the materials we gathered in our treasure bags on our autumn scavenger hunt, today we made a sensory tub.

Sensory tubs are wonderful for young children to play with and at this time of year Mother Nature provides lots of ingredients to use which invite children to explore colours, textures and sounds.

We filled our tub with Read more »

Autumn sensory scavenger hunt

autumn scavenger hunt
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 »

A child-made autumn treasure bag

make a bag easy
This week we’re going on a nature scavenger hunt to see what autumn treasures we can find. But where do we carry all our finds? I bet those of you with prams and buggies are finding the basket and folds of the hood filling up with leaves and conkers at this time of year. Our buggy days are long gone, and it seems my handbag is now the ‘carry all’ place to stash whatever we pick up along the way. Hmmmm. Time to change that, with a fun craft thrown in.

How to make a simple bag for autumn treasure hunting

We’re using two sheets of laminated paper threaded together to make our bag. If you don’t have access to a laminator then contact paper / sticky backed plastic would work as well and if there’s no sign of rain some thick card could work too .

We started by marking each child’s initial with tape in the centre of one of their pieces of paper. You can make the bag portrait or landscape to suit the size of your child. Then it was time to get messy. By special request Read more »

Autumn Play Planner: fun ideas for everyday this week

autumn theme ideas

Receive your own copy of the Play Planner

If you’d like to have a copy of the weekly play planner delivered straight to your e-mail in box, just sign up in the ‘Join Our E Newsletter’ box over on the right. The planner will arrive on a Sunday, ready and waiting with a week’s worth of play ideas for the week ahead.

And come and join  NurtureStore on Facebook for lots more fun ideas throughout the week

 Monday’s child is… Read more »

Play planner: fun ideas for everyday this week

autumn theme ideas

Receive your own copy of the Play Planner

If you’d like to have a copy of the weekly play planner delivered straight to your e-mail in box, just sign up in the ‘Join Our E Newsletter’ box over on the right. The planner will arrive on a Sunday, ready and waiting with a week’s worth of play ideas for the week ahead.

And come and join  NurtureStore on Facebook for lots more fun ideas throughout the week

 Monday’s child is… Read more »

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