Afasic Cymru ... 'Art Speaks' family fun day

It was a fab day yesterday at this event. I held a sensory play workshop and didn't stop all day as families came and had fun trying out the sensory experiences on offer.  Most of which can be found on here. If you were there yesterday, I would love to here your thoughts on the day. Feel free to comment below.
Here's to the next one! Plus the sun stayed shining too 😊www.afasiccymru.org.uk

Words for Life - Technology and under 5s

Words for Life - Technology and under 5s

Interesting  article about the use of technology with under 5's.  What are your thoughts?

Butterfly squishy bag

I love messy play activities when working with my families.  However not all children like the feel of some of the messy play activities on offer. Lots of sensory activities and ideas are used but I am always looking for more.

I have just come across this amazing site: Building blocks and acorns.  Wow! It's amazing.  This butterfly squishy bag is a great quiet time activity.  I think I am going to have to make a few of these. Use the link below to find the page...

http://buildingblocksandacorns.com/2014/05/01/guest-post-butterfly-squishy-bag-from-life-over-cs/

Printable sea creatures for play dough

I love using home made play dough and showing the families I work with how easy and cheap it is to make.  (You can find out how in a previous post...look up play dough in my search)

I was searching for some new ideas to use with it, when I came across these fabulous printable sea creatures from the nurture store  You can download the pdf document and print the creatures.  If you then laminate them or cover them in sellotape to make them stronger, they will last a lot longer and can be wiped down in between.

This is a fantastic site with lots of great information and ideas.  Follow this link:

http://nurturestore.co.uk/printable-sea-creatures-ocean-play-dough

Home made books

I have just come across this fab idea for interactive paper bag home made books.  These can be made for any topic and are really cheap to make.

Pop over to: https://reliefteachingideas.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/paper-bag-books/ to find out more : )

Humpty Dumpty finger puppet

 

Humpty dumpty is another one of the characters from the eight week rhyme challenge.  This little character has been made using the template which you can find the link for below.

 



 

 

http://www.makinglearningfun.com/Activities/NurseryRhymePrintables/Humpty%20Dumpty/HumptyPuppet.gif

 

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great all.

All of the kings horses and all the kings men,

Couldn't put Humpty together again.

 

 

Along came some children with brushes and glue,

And made Humpty Dumpty as good as new.

(Because we all like a happy ending!)

 

 

Other Humpty rhymes that you may like:

 

Humpty Dumpty sat on a chair,
While the barber cut his hair.
They cut it long.
They cut it short.
They cut it with a knife and fork.
~ Author Unknown

   Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
I wish they had had super glue way back then,
They could have put Humpty together again!
~ Author Unknown

  Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall eating ripe bananas,
Where do you think he put the peels?
Down his new pyjamas.

Humpty Dumpty went to the moon on a supersonic spoon
He took some porridge and a tent but when he landed the spoon got bent
Humpty said he didn't care
For all I know he's still up there.



Two little dickie birds

 

 

One of the other latest props made for the eight week rhyme challenge is this lovely two little dickie birds finger puppets.

 

The template for the birds has been taken from http://4.bp.blogspot.com

They were cut out, coloured in, sellotaped together to make enough space for fingers to go through and then had feathers and googly eyes added.

 

The wall has been made from an old printer cartridge box and some printed brick wall paper.

 

To make this resource you will need:

• Template of two birds(you will find a picture of the one we used below)
• Colouring pens
• Feathers
• Googly eyes
• Glue
• Sellotape
• Old box suitable to make a wall
• Printed brick paper or similar



 

 

 

Two little dickie birds

 

Two little dickie birds sitting on a wall,

One named Peter and the other named Paul.

Fly away Peter, fly away Paul,

Come back Peter, come back Paul.