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Silent Sunday 07/07/2013
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Silent Sunday: 23/06/2013
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Teach Your Toddler Numbers with Mini-Skittles!
I have been looking for more fun ways to practice some numeral recognition with W and I think this mini-skittle game is something he will really enjoy. It is a great way of up-cycling some old yoghurt drink pots too. First I painted the empty pots with a 50:50 mixture of paint and Mod Podge glue. When dry I attached a polystyrene ball to the top with craft glue. Then I simply added some googley eyes... ...drew on faces and finally painted each with a number from 1 to 6. Now we are ready to roll! We will probably use a small bouncy-ball as our bowling ball. I am hoping for W, ...
Preparing Your Child for a New Sibling
With baby number two's arrival now just a few weeks away I am hoping that we have done enough to prepare W for the major changes about to descend on Casa B with the arrival of his new sibling. Being just two and a half years old it is a little tricky to grasp just how much of what is happening, and about to happen, that he actually comprehends but I think we have hopefully done enough to make it a reasonably smooth and enjoyable transition from only child to big brother. These are a few of the steps we have taken: 1. Brought W along to all scans. From the beginning we have talked ...
Fathers Day Craft: Create a Simple Memory Box
Below is a really simple Fathers Day Craft that I have made as a present for Mr B. It is an idea that I stumbled across on pinterest and have been dying to try myself. Mr B is a bit of an old softie and loves to hang on to memorabilia from our trips away and evenings out. A random search through his jacket pockets can reveal old concert tickets, aeroplane stubbs, ski-passes, restaurant menus etc. The trouble is we don't really have anywhere to store them away so I decided to make him a memory box. It really couldn't have been simpler. First I ordered a small wooden shadow-box from ...
A is for Apple: Learning Letters with Marshmallow Painting!
This week we have continued our painting fun and also combined this with becoming more familiar with letters. We are starting with the letter A. Firsty I printed out a sheet of paper showing a large capital letter A, a lower case A and a picture of an apple. I placed this together with other examples of the letter A, magnets and sponges etc, that I found around the house. W and I then spent a few minutes looking at these before getting on with the painting. I then put out a couple of blobs of red and green paint in an old food tray, and a few marshmallows. We have had ...
Shape Recognition With Potato Printing
We have started to have some fun with paints recently and the boy is really beginning to enjoy himself now that he has realised he doesn't HAVE to get his hands really messy. So far we have had fun painting with empty toilet rolls and pom poms, and this week we had some fun with potatoes too. I had a few new potatoes in the vegetable basket that had started to go a bit sprouty so, using a small sharp kitchen knife, I cut these in half and carved out shapes into the surface to use as stamps. I managed a square, a triangle, a rectangle, an oval and a crescent. I'm afraid my attempt ...
Pom Pom Painting!
I have been trying to help the boy to get over his fear of painting and we had some success last week using toilet rolls to do some printing. After posting this I received a lovely comment from Shaunna on Google Plus who has the most wonderful blog, Fantastic Fun and Learning. Her site is full of fantastic ideas for children ranging in age from babies right through to kindergarten kids. If you are ever stuck for inspiration I highly recommend that you pop over and have a look. She suggested, since W does not like to get his hands dirty, to try painting with clothes pegs and pom poms as ...
Calm before bedtime? Not in this house.
You can picture the scene. It has been a long day. We have played, bounced, cooked, crafted, run about like loons and now it is nearly bedtime for the boy. We sit down and watch a bit of C-Beebies with some milk....quietly...a little bit of peace so we are all ready for bed. And then.... ...Daddy gets home... ...and these are the moments I know he, and we, will treasure the most. ...
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