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Following on from our faces book, how about trying to draw self-portraits? Drawing Self- Portraits Sit your child in front of a mirror to let them have a really good look at themselves. With young children you can name the different parts of their face and have them pull funny faces. Encourage . . . → Read More: Children’s self-portraits
There are opportunities for scientific learning everywhere. When your children are tired and it’s cold and dark outside, you may think hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows are just for comfort – but no! Science in action! Let them discover a little about heat and solids. Pop a marshmallow onto a skewer, light . . . → Read More: Marshmallow science Let’s play builders! Pretend play offers the opportunity to have fun and try out being someone else, and also develops lots of important early learning skills. Here are some easy ideas you can use to set up you pretend-play builders yard. 1. Stock up a tool box: You can buy some toy tools but your . . . → Read More: Role play builders
What? Repeating patterns are everywhere: in fabric designs, buildings in your neighbourhood, in the songs that you sing. Any sequence of colours, shapes, actions that repeact twice or more become a repeating pattern. Why? So what have repeating patterns got to do with your children’s play? Well, by looking out for . . . → Read More: Maths games: repeating patterns
We’re getting ready for the Carnival of Junk Play on Friday 3rd December! What do you think of our riding school? We have stables, jumps, a daisy filled paddock and some prize winning rosettes – and all made for free using re-cycled materials from our beloved making box. B has been . . . → Read More: Junk model horse riding stables
‘Tis the season for apple printing: around the blog world this week I’ve seen some lovely apple trees and apple wreaths. We decided to get started our our Halloween decorations and turn our apple prints into pumpkins. The apple halves can be a little tricky to grasp hold off, so we used a fork . . . → Read More: Apple printing pumpkins  |
   
                    
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