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A cute little gift idea! Something so simple, fun and easy to make and you will find all the items you need around the home. S ensory Play Rice and Bottle Tops: Developing fine motor skills through sensory play with rainbow rice and bottle tops that will also inspire the imagination and creativity.
Exploring and playing with pipe cleaners and beads with the Styrofoam while exercising the fine motor muscles. There is so much fun to be had creating pretend cupcakes as kids have the freedom to explore the imaginary world. This is a great activity to introduce and sing the Pat-a-Cake nursery rhyme. We have a gorgeous book which comes with a CD that tells the story of the adventure of going on a bear hunt.
My kids have played this CD over many times as I watch them pretend to walk through long, wavy grass and run away from a bear.
So I thought I would bring this story to life some more by creating the different scenes in the book. P illow Case Hoppers: This game is an oldie but a goodie replacing the hessian sacks with a pillow case……simple hours of fun! Kids love to get messy, it comes with being a kid as they explore their natural curiosity about the world around them. Paint Me is a cute and quirky activity that kids will enjoy making! I plan to use ours as keep sake to giggle at in years to come. It is a perfect snap shot of the size of your kids hands and feet to compare with when they get older.
Play Dough and Cardboard Tubes: These Colourful Pattern Easter Eggs are a bright and colourful activity for the kids to do this Easter. My kids get very excited when we play this game. The challenge and anticipation of searching for something brings so much fun to learning your alphabet letters!
The Hide and Seek Letter Hunt involves hiding the letter pairs around the house and your child goes around finding them. What is Hiding in Our Jelly? Since our first play experience with jelly, my kids have been asking if we could do it again. This time I hid some items in the jelly for them to squeeze and squish through to find. Great Places to Play at Home: There are so many wonderful places in the home where children can play imaginatively, creatively and get active indoors.
Kids will create imaginary worlds to explore and play using the most inexpensive and simple things you can find right at home. Here are a few ideas for you to try! Pompoms and Mini Tongs: In the early years, we often hear discussions about the importance of fine motor and gross motor development in kids. Here is a great activity that is fun and exercises those little muscles to develop strength! Bottle Top Leaf Boats: What I love about winter is that there are lots of puddles to play in. Recently after days of rain and being stuck inside, we put our rain coats and gum boots on for a splash about in the puddles.
An irresistibly yummy numeracy activity for kids!
So much learning happens when we cook with our kids. The social interactions, processing information, following directions, problem solving and coordination. A simple unstructured and fun sensory play idea using water, bubbles and bottle tops.
It was wonderful to see the creativity, imagination and fun happen just by adding bottle tops and bubble bath to the tub. The Nursery Rhymes Box: The Nursery Rhyme Box is an activity developed to encourage and promote oral language development in young children. It had been a while since we have pulled out the paints so I thought we would get them out to do a little finger painting and incorporate it with our theme of blackberries. We made some blackberries using purple and black paint and our fingers. It is always so much fun painting with our fingers! Sorting Coloured Match Sticks: Colourful Cellophane Sticky Art: Cellophane Sticky Art is a great activity to introduce kids to colours!!
I believe it is never too early to start learning about concepts such as colour and that through setting up opportunities to play and learn will begin the journey of developing an understanding. Play Dough — Bottle Tops and Straws: It is always fun to watch and see what kids will come up with when you give them simple props to promote play in an open-ended and unstructured way.
Here I have set up our activity table with play dough, bottle tops and straws to inspire the imagination and creativity. Using simple craft materials to create a Paper Plate Rainbow! Kids will enjoy swishing the rainbow through the air while listening to their favourite rainbow songs. Blu e Theme Sensory Tub: Having some fun in a sensory tub filled with blue rice and blue pompoms! Miss 22months loves sensory tubs and loves to run her fingers through the rice and pompoms and sprinkling them like it is rain.
A fun sensory play experience for kids in the bath tub by adding balloons filled with water. Autumn Play Dough Leaf Prints: We have been celebrating the new season and the changes in the colours of leaves with making leaf prints and patterns using real leaves in a Nutmeg Scented Autumn Play Dough. The play dough is lightly scented with spicy nutmeg and cinnamon, with brown colouring and red and gold glitter bringing together all the wonderful elements of autumn. As part of our Learning Colours Series here on learning4kids, today I am sharing with you some of the activities we have been doing as we explore and play with the colour green.
As part of our Learning Colours Series here on learning4kids, we have been exploring and playing with the colour yellow with water balloons, marble paintings, fine motor games with pompoms and a homemade music shaker! Exploring and playing with the colour red with crafts, play dough, bath fun, discovery boxes and more. As part of our Learning Colours Series here on learning4kids, this week we have been exploring and playing with the colour blue with bubbles, bottle tops, paint, rice and balloons! We had so much fun making numbers with our Orange Scented Play Dough.
Free printable number play dough mats. Kids never get bored with bubble wrap, there is so much fun to be had and so much to explore with it. One of these things to explore is the interesting patterns and shapes it creates with paint. Sensory Play with Sand: Sand is a toy! The less a toy does the more a child will learn!
Sand is such a great sensory toy for kids as they explore their sense of touch and play and discover the wonderful texture of sand! Painting with Homemade Number Stamps: These Homemade Number Stamps will make learning your numbers FUN for kids as they can make endless paintings of numbers prints and sing-a-long as they learn and play!
The Number Stamps are low cost, require very little materials and are super easy to make! These guitars are such a simple homemade instrument to make and will bring so much fun to kids play times! Kids love birthdays, blowing out candles and cake! Why not incorporate all these wonderful things with oral language development, strengthening fine motor skills, developing numeracy concepts and most importantly FUN!
Bubble Wrap Painting shapes: Bubble wrap is so much fun to explore for kids! Feeling the various textures of the puffy bubble pouches and hearing the noise of popping them. Bubble wrap is great for creating interesting patterns and shapes with paint. Here is an activity using bubble wrap painting and learning your shapes too! Adding a little bit of this and a little bit of that to create a rainbow collage! This Chocolate Play Dough really looks and smells just like the real thing! This play dough is great for an Easter Theme Activity!
Making Fluffy Snow using soap flakes is a fun and messy sensory play activity. What age is it for? How do children learn from the game? Will it work on my device? Who are The Usborne Foundation? An Exciting Adventure in a Magical World.
Help children learn to read with our free, award-winning reading and phonics John Hole, Phase 1 Leader, Wray Common Primary School. Quote monster 3 The series complements Phases of Letters and Sounds and other major. Along With Tobee · Super Duper Ball Pit · Super Simple Draw · Treetop Family · Turn & Learn · Blog · Free Resources · Shop · FB · IG · PIN. 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8.
Lots of blending, segmenting and tricky words. Read for purpose with magical little books. A great way to help your children to learn to read. I was stunned to see how much they enjoyed this. It blew me away. Matt Lovegrove, Cippenham Primary School.
Information for Teachers and Parents. Complements existing learning For young children in the first stages of learning to read; both those who are on track and those who need extra support and motivation. Keeps children focused on rehearsing and consolidating what they learn in school. Easy and Secure The series takes children on a journey through the graphemes; rehearsing recognition, blending and segmenting with each one.
Children rehearse tricky words, plus reading whole sentences and captions. Can be played independently by children either in school or at home. Each child has their own login so the game can track their progress over time.
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