craft ideas – mainly suitable for children to make by themselves
It occurred to me recently that there a lot of great dinosaur blog posts out there and what I needed was to pin some together. Therefore, I created a Dinosaur pinboard on Pinterest. If you wish your post to be pinned then please link it up in the comments box below. I found this great dinosaur craft … Read more
If you’ve been following our Letter Learning Journey you will know that we have come to the letter R. It seemed obvious to do RUBBISH My children are used to recycling because they know which “bins” each products go to (or go for washing up) so I thought we’d concentrate on reusing. I decided to … Read more
If you’ve been following our Letter Learning Journey you will know that we have come to the letter Q. I didn’t want to do Queen as it seemed too obvious – and besides that was covered under Jubilee I figured that after all the hustle and bustle of the summer holidays (and for us moving … Read more
The Letter Learning journey brings us to the Letter P We have been making sure we make a letter to stick on the cupboard to remind us of what we’ve learnt This week we did P for Peacock Just a letter P cut out of paper Glue on some feathers and some googly eyes
As part of our letter learning journey the letter P covered so many things so we covered quiet a bit as we packed and moved house. P covers Pinterest and this is where I found this delightful idea of a Paint Pirate handprint originally from Fun Hand Print Art We painted it all on our hand and then … Read more
Numbers have been a big feature in this house currently and I did cover numbers when making our owl bags by making and filling them with number biscuits. I did see an idea (here) where you could introduce how much it would cost to make the biscuits – and then consider whether this cost more or … Read more
Well this week sees the end of the school year here in the UK. Now faced with not only gifts for teachers we have teaching assistants – making end of year an expensive business. See off I went to Pinterest in order to find some ideas that would make it cheaper and more personal. You … Read more
So our letter learning journey has taken us up to the letter M. I think this letter really covers my son’s favourite things which are Maths and Music. He is always keen to talk about maths – even going in and out of the house he talks about who came first, second, third and so … Read more
So after seeing Choice chambers on Science Sparks (here) I was really keen to do them with my son – so decided that L could be for Lice. It actually turns out that if you Google lice (as I did to be sure of how many legs to give them) that it turns out lice … Read more
