Happy Chinese New Year! You could make this a project for one child or a collaboative work wih children making individual paper plate dragon scales. Start by painting the plate red on both sides and then sprinkling it with glitter. I have used a McKenzies Sea Salt container as the holes are big enough to shake … More Chinese New Year Dragon
St Martin’s Day on the 11th November is great time to make some lanterns. You can start with the basic slit lantern or make a pattern by pinching holes for the light to come through or cut out a design and layer it with a contrasting colour. We enjoyed this so much WeeBeastie chose to do … More Lanterns for St Martins’s Day
The Welsh flag. The 1st March is St David’s Day. St David is the patron saint of Wales.(The Welsh equivalent of St Patrick’s Day.) Having lived in the United Kingdom for many years, when I think of Wales I think of leeks, daffodils and hand carved Love Spoons! I had a leek in the fridge and a … More Paper daffodils for St David’s Day
So on the morning of the 30th November we set of for school as normal…no wait, nothing normal about it! We were loaded down with Scottish goodies! Shortbread, a massive Saltire (flag), Scottish themed games, a put put golf activity and WeeBeastie in his kilt and brave heart top! He was greeted by his school … More St Andrew’s Day 2015
Children love making flags of the different countries. This poster was $1.00 through my son’s Scholastic book club. It’s important to source up to date information as there have been lots of changes recently! WeeBeastieBoy would pick a flag off the poster and ask to make that flag. The Welsh flag was very popular..do you know … More Montessori Flag activity
This is the story of a following a child’s interest in ants. My scaffolding of the ant investigation was inspired by Ursula Kolbe ursulakolbe.com WeeBeastieBoy was reading a book on ants. The book was put down and he wandered aimlesly. “Would you like to do some more investigation of ants!” Investigation is an invitationhe can never … More Ant investigation lead by the child
Here is a simple activity to introduce children to the work of Monet and the idea of impressionist painting. Here are some of the resources I have gathered, along with another great book by Laurence Anholt The Magical Garden of Claude Monet I actually ran out of time to share this with the children (there … More Introduction to famous artists – Monet
It’s silkworm time again! In Auguest each year in Brisbane the leaves on the Mulberry trees start to appear and thats the signal to get the shoebox off the shelf! I got these silkworms when they were a few weeks old so they had already grown and shed their baby black skins revealing these grey/white … More Silkworms
Everywhere we walk there are trees dropping these fantastic boomerang shape seed pods. At first they were going in the green waste recycling bin until we decided to collect a load and bring them out to decorate during NAIDOC week when we celebrate the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander culture. Aboriginal Culture There is … More Dot painting on natural itemslebrations
Another Practical Life activity you can make easily with things you have at home. We picked up a big bag of polished stones from a garage sale. You can also get small polishing tumblers if you fancy polishing the stones you collect on your travels. Rock Tumbler or Hand Polish Have a magnifying glass at the reay so children … More Gem stone investigation
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