GP Love is in the air ❤

💕Good morning Boys and Girls Parents/Guardians.💕

This week would have been the final week before our mid-term break. We would have had so much fun this week in school doing lots of Valentine's Day activities making lots of hearts and talking about love and our feelings. 

It's a lovely theme where we talk to the children about what they love 💕 to do what they love to eat ,play and things that make them happy. 

We would have been baking and making cards, and special gifts for people at home.

Its important to the children that they understand the events that take place around them, if the shops were all open the children would be seeing hearts and the colour red all around them just like Halloween or Christmas decorations that would be visible everywhere, so its important to them that we acknowledge these events and help them to understand what they mean.

If we were in school we would do a cute questionnaire with the children some of the answers can be so funny.

Maybe you could ask them these questions and see what they say ,

This is another one to show that we love lots of things around us .We would have loved to do this with the boys and girls.

Poems and Songs

       This is a fun one to do with the kids.

This is a song I found but also an activity cut out a heart and hide it in the room some where and see can the children find it .they always love hide and seek games ,and they love singing, its an American song so you can change the word ponder to wonder.

    Now for the messy fun stuff 

There are lots of fun activities you can do around the valentine's/ love  theme that the children will really enjoy. 

This is just a toilet roll tube that the children can use to do some paint printing, maybe they could make a card for someone ,

You could also have the children try tracing a heart using the sandwich bag from previous weeks.

                           

                       Valentine's Gloup ❤

Make up a batch of Gloup as a messy and fun Valentines Science activity for a great themed  science project it's so much fun to play with.

Gloup is a really interesting play recipe as it has both properties of liquids and solids. You can slowly dip your hand into it like a liquid, but if you squeeze the gloup or punch it, it will feel solid. It's a great sensory valentines day activities for kids! But can be messy .

Materials:

• Cornflour.
• Water
• bowl
• Spoon or Whisk
• Food Coloring (red or pink)
• Heart sweats (to mix in)
• Cookie cutters (optional)

                     Salt dough hearts

                                 💕

Salt dough is really cool because what ever you make you can keep forever and it's very easy to make, only 3 ingredients.

 The candle holder is made by dying the dough first before you bake it so it will be red when cooked and no need to paint ,after you cut out your heart shape (if you dont have a cutter just cut a heart shape from a cereal box and let the children cut around it)

We make this in school all the time, I still have Christmas decorations my adult children made. What ever you make bake in a moderate oven 150 degrees for about an hour and let cool. If you decide to leave the mixture plain the children can paint their creations any colour they like once cooled.

These would be a lovely gift, or hanging from a tree in your garden, use a straw to make the hole.

                  Baking treats🎂

What you need:

• 175g/6oz Self Raising Flour
• 125g/4oz sugar/Caster Sugar
• 125g/4oz Butter or Margarine (half a block)
• 2 Eggs
• 2 tablespoons Cold Water

To decorate

• White chocolate melted 
• You can add red food colouring to the melted chocolate to turn it pink.
• Hundreds and Thousands
• Little heart decorations. 

How to:

1. Ensure oven is fully preheated to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6.
2. Next, put bun paper cases into bun tins.
3. Put the flour, sugar, butter/margarine, eggs and water into a bowl. Beat all the ingredients together .
4. Put heaped teaspoons of the mixture into each bun case.
5. Place in the oven on the top shelf and bake for about 15 minutes until golden brown.
6. Cool on a wire tray. When cold, decorate as liked with your favourite toppings.

                             Pancakes🥞

While we are on our break it will also be pancake Tuesday 16th of February. 

All children love pancakes .

Pancakes are delicious and easy for the children make and can be enjoyed with lots of toppings my favourite is chocolate spread and banana, everyone has a favourite take some photos of your pancakes and send them into us we would love to see your creations. 

There's a lovely story on YouTube the runaway pancake. 

https://youtu.be/fnEj6x0nFDI

They will really enjoy it, it's like the ginger bread man.

Hope you all have a great valentine's day and spoil each other💗 enjoy trying some of our activities.