Story stones are a wonderful way to combine art, language and play. So making the most of our trip to the beach the girls and I collected a few smallish, flat pebbles to make our own set of story stones when we got home.
Flags for sandcastles
To make simple flags to deck out a sandcastle: take a rectangle of card, add a design, fold and glue onto a stick.
We’re off to the beach for a few days – see you when we get back!
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Junk modelling ideas
Th
is week’s #goplay Twitter Tips* are bringing you some junk modelling ideas to inspire you to raid your recycling bin and get creating.
#goplay Twitter Tip #1 Stock a Making Box with left-over boxes wrapping ribbons tubes tinfoil to use for modelling
#goplay Twitter Tip #2 Junk modeling helps children think creatively, problem solve, imagine, play with size, dimension, angles and more
#goplay Twitter Tip #3 How about transforming some milk cartons into a fire station with this idea from @noflashcards?
#goplay Twitter Tip #4 @Childhood101 has a fantastic tutorial showing you how to make a kitchen from yr junk
#goplay Twitter Tip #5 How about hovercrafts from CDs and hot air balloons from yoghurt pots? https://www.playbasedlearning.com.au/2010/07/more-flying-machines/
#goplay Twitter Tip #6 Teacher Tom’s class made an erupting volcano from a fizzy drink bottle and some newspaper!
#goplay Twitter Tip #7 How about making fairy toadstools from a paper bag? @mayamade shows you how
#goplay Twitter Tip #8 Transform a shoe box and some toilet roll tubes into a medieval castle
#goplay Twitter Tip #9 Turn a shoe box into a double decker bus
#goplay Twitter Tip #10 How about transforming a egg box into a fire breathing dragon?
Hope you find inspiration in these ideas – what could you make?
*These #goplayTwitter Tips are tweeted each Friday at 8.30pm – follow @nurturestore or the #goplay hashtag to share
View the Twitter Tips on playdough, water play, travelling with kids and encouraging reading and writing
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Homemade ice cream cornettos
One of our favourite summer treats is homemade ice cream cornettos. Great fun to make and ever so yummy.
To make some you will need: wafer ice cream cones, soft scoop vanilla ice cream, raspberries, icing sugar, chocolate, fudge
Keep the ice cream in the freezer until you need to use it – you don’t want to melt it and re-freeze it.
(The quantities given below made 10 small cones, with some tasting and nibbling as we went along)
Chop up 100g chocolate and 100g fudge into small chunks.
Melt 200g chocolate in a bowl over a pan of boiling water.
Whizz 100g of raspberries and a dessert spoon of icing sugar to make a raspberry sauce.
Wrap each cornet in a strip of greaseproof paper, held in place with sticky tape.
Paint the inside of each cornet with melted chocolate using a pastry brush. Make sure you get a nice pool of chocolate in the bottom so you get a chocolatey treat at the end of your cornet.
Wait until the the chocolate has set inside the cornet (about 5-10 mins)
Fill with layers of ice cream, raspberry sauce, fudge and chocolate. Work quickly so the ice cream doesn’t melt. Fill over the rim of the cornet, inside the greaseproof paper for that authentic cornetto style.
Pop back in the freezer for a little while so the sauce can set, then remove the greaseproof paper and…
Enjoy!
You can’t beat home made cornettos for a great summer treat.
Games to play on journeys
It’s summer holiday season when lots of us are travelling with kids so this week’s Twitter Tips* are all about keeping children entertained on a car journey.
Twitter Tip #1 The key to traveling happily with kids is a little planning: make a box of goodies for snacks, treats and activities
Twitter Tip #2 Make a bingo game to take along with pictures of roadsigns, vehicles, people and landmarks you can spot along the way
Twitter Tip #3 Play 20 questions. With younger children give clues to about someone in the family, let older ones ask questions
Twitter Tip #4 Stock a busy bag with pens, paper, stickers, doll, magazine, books, sweets, a magnetic scribble pad, magic colour pens
Twitter Tip #5Every 20 mins or so give the kids something new from the busy bag – keeps them busy & helps measure out the journey
Twitter Tip #6 Take along some audio books (borrow some from the library ) -better for carsickness than watching a film on a screen
Twitter Tip #7 Locate the playgrounds along your route. Stop regularly and get out of the car to let the children run around.
Twitter Tip #8 Put together a compilation of the family’s favourite music: can’t beat a singalong to lift everyone’s mood!
Twitter Tip #9 Make story magnets & play with them on a baking sheet -they won’t get lost down the car seats
Twitter Tip #10 How about some washable car window crayons to let the kids get creative while they ride?
*These #goplayTwitter Tips are tweeted each Friday at 8.30pm – follow @nurturestore or the #goplay hashtag to share
View the Twitter Tips on playdough, water play and encouraging reading and writing
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Ideas for water play
Welcome to the third edition of #goplay Twitter Tips. This week we have ideas for getting the most from water play.
#goplay Twitter Tip #1 water play is great for kids of all ages, free, not too messy, and accessible: bucket, bath, water pistol, beach…
#goplay Twitter Tip #2 No children should ever play unsupervised with water. Safety first, then have some fun.
#goplay Twitter Tip #3 Water play is great for exploring maths: add funnels & containers of different size to play with volume & dimension.
#goplay Twitter Tip #4 Explore the science of freezing &melting, treasure hunt objects frozen in ice, make ice lollies.
#goplay Twitter Tip #5 Add in some songs at bathtime to develop language: Row, row, row your boat. 5 Little ducks. Thou Shall Have a Fishy.
#goplay Twitter Tip #6 Add some food colouring to bath water to create a magical water world. (Thanks to A Mother’s Ramblings for this idea.)
#goplay Twitter Tip #7 Bath time is a lovely time to bond esp. if you’ve been apart in the day. A sensory play time to relax before sleep.
#goplay Twitter Tip #8 A tub of water is transformed with props: boats, fishes and rods, shells, pots and pans.
#goplay Twitter Tip #9 Bubbles build brains: make kids think. What seems solid suddenly pops. How does that happen? Have a look at these giant bubbles at the Frugal Family Fun Blog.
#goplay Twitter Tip #10 No such thing as bad weather only the wrong clothes. Seize the day, put on wellies, go #playoutdoors in the puddles!
Catch our #goplay Twitter Tips each Friday at 8.30pm (GMT). Previous tips have looked at Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Playdough and Encouraging Reading and Writing.
Come and join us next week by following @nurturestore on Twitter.
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