Tuesday 27 November 2012

Thanksgiving activities

Today Laura, from California, showed us how to make brown paper bag trees for Thanksgiving.




We also had a big roll of brown paper on the floor to do some drawing together, trace hands etc.
And the littlies enjoyed playing with puzzles, dominoes ...



Thursday 22 November 2012

Making instruments

This week we made noise music together!
We listened to some drums, had a go at various instruments, and made our own maracas and bell shakers.
We even filled some balloons with a few beans and rice, and they made a great sound (until they popped!)
The children had fun as usual, and enjoyed chasing each other in our spacious hall.






Friday 16 November 2012

Diwali activities

This week we learnt about the festival of Diwali.

"Diwali is the Hindu Festival of Lights which celebrates the New Year. It is celebrated some time between September and November each year. For Hindus, Diwali is one of the most important festivals of the year and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes."

We made Rangoli patterns using coloured salt. It was rather tricky, but great fun.






 As Diwali is the festival of light, we made some salt dough tea light holder, and decorated them with beads.


Some people brought in Indian clothes for us to try on, they were very pretty and sparkly!




Wednesday 7 November 2012

Fireworks crafts

This week as we met the day before Guy Fawkes night, we had a fireworks theme running.
It mainly involved a lot of glitter, to make really cool fireworks pictures.





The children were very prolific!



And then we lit up some sparklers out in the playground :)






Sunday 4 November 2012

Making lanterns

This week we made some fabulous lanterns.
There were jam jar lanterns, and willow sticks & tissue paper lanterns.

You can find a good tutorial for the willow ones on the Nature Detectives website.