More face paints

I know I did face paints before but this picture just says it all!

Other Websites with educational activity ideas.

This is taken from the Pencombe Under Fives website. A fabulous small rural playgroup in Herefordshire .

http://www.pencombeunderfives.co.uk/fun-with-you-children

Learning Fun

I have found a lovely interactive educational website for pre school children. It uses repetition and simple games to aid their sound and reading knowledge. We have only used the lessons section and the library but for older children there is the opportunity to collect points,eggs, and trade them in for other games and other items.
 You get a free 2 week trial for every email address.Unfortunately then you need to pay a subscription ,I am yet to do this but think it might be worth it .

Happy learning x

www.readingeggs.com

Advent Calendar

I can not take any credit for this idea. I gave the girls some odd post it notes to play with and they invented their own advent calendar. They numbered some, drew a surprise picture on the back and then stuck them on the wall to be taken off everyday on the count down to christmas .

Great work girls  !

Good Mummy vs Bad Mummy

Good Mummy, hand bakes the most perfectly formed shortbread stars using her traditional family recipe.  Mixes the perfect amount of food colouring and icing sugar to make a Christmas tree colour. Then  using natural flavoured and coloured sweets helps the children assemble and decorate a beautiful shortbread Christmas tree. Topping it off with a homemade sugar crafted Father Christmas and present!

VOILA!

Bad Mummy buys it ready made for £1 fro m ASDA , Leaves the kids to it and then lets them eat all the sweets and icing off it

Snow!

Oh what fun it is to play in the snow. To save the freezing wet hands after 10 minutes te girls used bucket and spades and a dustpan tp scoop up the snow into a pile ready to make  snowman .

As you can see we were quite limited for snow, but with the right tools and determination we managed to produce a snowman all be it "bijou".

Super snowballs!

Using a soup ladle we made some excellent snowballs. The best technique  was to drag it towards yourself,  which molded the shape nicely. We must of had the right type of snow as they were easy to do.