Dragon Sock puppets

Not great pics for this activity. Needed a more hands on role making and my battery was low.

But basically socks, glue, scissors and foam.

We made them for St George's day.

The boys were impressed with them and wanted to take them out.

Tadpole sock puppet

As you can see from the pictures this is one of my 2 year olds favourite Tadpole activity so far. 

Easy to do get a sock, some PVA glue and googley eyes.

We used a cotton bud to apply the glue.

Zac was very independent and wanted to do it himself whilst on his hand.

He then used it to talk to the real tadpoles.

We talked about the pond weed and he asked for some for his tadpole.

So I got him s selection of green items such as string , pipe cleaners and foam.

Zac 2.9 yrs

Pom Pom Tadpoles

We got a black Pom Pom , black pipe cleaner and googley eyes. Then wrapped pipe cleaner around the Pom Pom and glued eyes on.

Magnet Tadpoles

We am continued out tadpole topic using magnets. 

They are idea as they are comprised of a ball and a tube magnet. so a head and a body .

We matched colours, made various length tadpoles and then counted how many tubes we added and sequenced them.

We many as many tadpole as we could and role played with them. He quickly worked out that the two like poles would repel and he needed to change the end to attract.

We also used it as a measuring tool to measure the tadpole vase.

Lovely preschool STEM activity. 

Zac 2.9 enjoyed the magnets

Pebble tadpoles

My neighbour has a pond and I decided to ask him for some tadpoles for a science lesson I was doing at my sons school. So I got two tall jars and filled with pond water, pond weed and tadpoles. So after the visit /lesson we had them. The boys were so enthusiastic about them that they have stayed.  I am going to return them just as they transform into frogs.

They have been moved from jars to a vase. 

I added some pebbles so they can hide too. 

We got a chalkboard , pebbles and chalk. He used the tadpoles in the vase for observation . He held the pebble and drew a tail . He then drew eyes on the pebbles.

We discussed colours of the chalk and shape of the pebble could also be mentioned.

This was a quick activity on our tadpole Tuesday .

Zac talked to the pebble tadpoles , such imagination.

Zac 2.9 months

No Dylan today he was at school 

Spider-Man, Batman and Hulk Duplo DIY

I remember seeing a post about this before and told my husband who decided to attend the challenge.

So he made Spider-Man, batman and hulk and was very pleased when they were recognised by our son.

I suoppose it depends on the blocks that you have really. 

They stayed in the window sill for a while as my husband didn't want them breaking just yet.

Penguins and igloos snow play

My son's school topic of animals had a focus on the Arctic and Antarctic,  one suggestion was to make an igloo.

I remembered that at xmas I brought  artificial snow .

We followed the instructions that were basically add water to the powder.

Soon we had a tub full of artificial snow.

We coloured the snow with food dye.

They used diggers and tubs to play.

The tubs were ideal for snow castles : igloos.

They observed wind up penguins and how they moved on the snow.

The penguins were from crackers and are number which we used to race and add up. Identified odds and evens. 

The snow lasted for well over 10 days. In the fridge and out of the fridge. I think it would last much longer.

We had something like this 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00GL5LNDG/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?qid=1460040263&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=artificial+snow+magic&dpPl=1&dpID=51ngPbo856L&ref=plSrch

DIY Playdoh Town: Castle

The boys love the idea of a Playdoh town and I asked them what kind of town we should make and a Castle was the answer from my knight loving 2.7 year old.

So... There was a castle with people (from ELC) some Playdoh , animal props and then we used pasta and tools to create more animals / dragons / monsters. 

We acted out a typical 'damsel in distress' story .

We used the animals to copy and make Playdoh versions.

We used imagination to create our own monsters/ dragons. Giving them names and using them in the role play.

They still talk about our Playdoh town  weeks later and will definitely make a different town using toys and Playdoh .

We will probably recreate for St George's day.

You could easily incorporate more learning such as numeracy

Counting, adding/subtracting animals and alphabet by putting a letter by each object indicating what they start with.