GP Pre-School Homemade Fun activities 🏡

  

Good morning Parents/Guardians, Boys & Girls 👪

I hope you had fun trying out some of our activities last week I have been looking out for ideas that you guys can do at home using items from home. And I have found some really cool ones that you will love.♥️

There’s no real theme this week just a selection of activities that are fun and will interest and engage the children, I’ve picked activities that can be done using the same materials as last week, food colouring being a big part of our materials.

Food colouring is so resourceful and has many uses. Last year we could not get red paint anywhere for our Christmas art activities, so we bought white paint and added red food colouring for red paint, it worked so well.

If you don’t have paints at home but have a variety of food colouring bottles, just buy one bottle of white paint and you can decided what colour you want it to be. Its also excellent for the children to mix it and see the paint change every time they add more.

 My daughter went through a phase of making slime so we had lots of food colouring bottles at home so we used them up making different coloured paint, white paint can be picked up in dealz for €1.50 and turned into many colours.🎨

Children are born explorers that fully engage with there surroundings using there senses, sight👁, sound👂 ,touch 🖐,smell 👃and taste 👅the environment is so stimulating to a young child experiencing many things for the first time everyday.

Its important that we keep young children active both physically and mentally by engaging them in activities that allow them to explore their creativity and imagination Creative activities help to spark 💥 a child’s natural curiosity.

By doing new things with children it helps to develop a sense of wonder and helps them to understand the world around them and how things work. Creative activities help a child to think, make connections and work things out for themselves.

By engaging with adults and family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 members while doing these activities it helps children to develop their listening skills, express their feelings, describe their activities and actions, helping to develop their language and communication skills .

This week I found some cool activities using things from around the home 🏡 

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I'   I've included a colour chart in-case you want to try making your own coloured paints, its a great activity for the children to be able to experiment with colours. By doing this activity the children will gain great knowledge around cause and effect how their actions change the colour. Its also a great science activity and great fun too making some new colours, they get to control the depth of the colours by adding more food colouring. 🥣

                                                            Bird 🐦 feeder

     Spring is almost here and nature is starting to come alive again the trees and plants will be waking up and new leaf buds will be coming on the trees, the birds will start building nests and laying eggs 🥚. So I thought we could make them a bird feeder ,because its hard work building a nest and they get hungry.

    

These bird feeders 🦜are made from milk cartons . If you don’t have paints you can cover them in tin foil and colour with markers , twigs can be used as the perch. It will be nice for the children to watch the birds coming to feed in their garden, see how many different types of birds come.

                                                      

  Clothes peg wreath 

I  I seen this activity and thought is looked like a nice easy activity that the children would enjoy ,you can colour the pegs with markers, paint, or dye the pegs with food colouring which looks really cool. 

       Just leave the pegs soaking in warm coloured water for an hour , and you'll have a rainbow 🌈 of pegs to use for your wreath.

     

  

     Cut a circle from a cereal box, the children can colour it if they want to and then arrange the pegs around the circle. They can ad stickers, cut pictures from magazines, pick flowers and leaves to make a spring wreath. 

You could also make a valentines day wreath with red pegs and coloured and cut out hearts 💕 they can have great fun deciding what they want to use. 

 Pegs are great fun to play with you can build and attach many items together with pegs

     

    

 Pegs are great for children's fine motor skills and concentration they use a lot of energy and muscles squeezing the pegs ,hand eye coordination is also used while  directing the pegs where they want them to go. 

Give them pegs and colouring pencils and they will have a great time building

                                                    Home made projector 

    

How simple is this, its just a kitchen roll a torch 🔦  cling film and some markers   the children get to experiment with light they will see how the projection gets bigger the further away they are ,and how small it gets when they are close to the wall.

                                                     💀Treasure Chest💀

      

     

 Children are born explorers and foragers they love to pick up little things they find, uits like their treasure.

 Children will love this and it can be used anywhere a trip to the beach or park or even in the back garden it will keep them busy finding different items to put in each section and best of all its only an egg carton.

     

                                                         Name Tracing

    

 

    Write you child’s name on a piece of paper and put into a sandwich bag ,the children can use a marker to trace their name you can practice shapes too.

    I hope you try some of these activities they are simple using household items .if you do id love to see some photos, we miss you boys and girls so much ❤. 

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