Simple but really effective decoration for Japanese Children’s (Boy’s) Day on the 5th May. Just cut out a carp shape and let the children decorate with water colour paints, black marker and white tipex. Here is more information on Children’s Day at Web-Japan
You will need free range eggs (white or as light as you can get them), stockings and flowers or leaves. You could probably use cheese cloth too if you can find a way to wrap it tightly around the egg to keep the flower in place. I’m going to try that next time as I … More Dyeing Easter Eggs
Following on from our mushroom investigation we are looking at ferns and have found this lovely page in Plants That Never Ever Bloom. Here is Brisbane some ferns grow like weeds but they are still fascinating! Ferns have be around for 360 million years according to fossils but most of the plants we see appeared … More Ferns provocation
Having looked at Landforms we are ready to look at Biomes of the world. I used these cards from Carrots are Orange. We were able to relate them to books about the Biome where we live in Queensland which has temperate and tropical rainforests, wetlands, desert and some spectacular volcanic core mountain ranges. There is so much … More Biomes
We have been in the sand pit to make lakes and islands etc. so here are some more activities to explore the different landforms on our planet Earth. This book is really interesting to us because the landforms are all Australian. We have also worked through lots of activities for land, air and water. Here … More Landforms including volcanos
In Autumn I put out these dried and plastic flower wreaths for the children to decorate. In Australia the children remember the poppy wreaths from ANZAC Day. However the children often get so involved with decorating the wreaths and spend so much time that they wish they could take them home. So here is an … More Flower Wreaths
This activity was refined for a Montessori classroom so you may prefer to have a large selection of shells for children to rummage through if you have them. To make the shell book I just googled for colouring in outlines for the shells that I had. It’s lovely to have a wide selection of art … More Shells discovery
This is an easy recipe to make with young children. Measuring involves only cups and spoons straight into a food processor. Then comes the fun part … shaping them into balls with your hands. They look so pretty and tempting with the red cranberries and green pistachios. They are quite rich so even I find … More Macadamia and cranberry goodie balls
Here is a simple idea to extend your music or group times. The children can make puppets and collect a fallen gum branch for the tree. This is a great example of the song with kookaburra sounds and with the song sung in a round which is good fun to try. Here are the lyrics … More Kookaburra puppet
A simple activity to set up for extending all sorts of skills! You can cut the paper into strips to make it more manageable for beginners. As part of my university studies we were asked the question, ‘Do you think Kindergarten math activities help children to enjoy math later in life?’ Yes, I do. What … More Cutting and gluing shapes
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