A is for Apple

We have completed the baby sensory a-z. So back around again , although the baby is 1 now.

We started today with apple stamping and as autumn is approaching we used colours to link like red, green, brown, yellow and orange.

I taped down the paper and put lollipop sticks in to apple halves and paint in a paper bowl and we were ready.

This is one of Zac's painting (1.1 )

This is one of Dylan's ( 3.10)

I am going to frame them and have them in my household too .

Picasso style Scarecrow

After reading the book the barn dance from the virtual book club or September we focused on scarecrow craft.

I made a jigsaw game by placing all the pieces in place and taking a photo then asked Dylan to copy it .

He started copying it and we tried this without glue.

The next day I gave him a glue stick and left him to it.

This is what he created 

Dylan 2.11

Leaf printing

A great autumn activity so easy and fun o do.

1. Collect the leaves

2. Paint the leaves

3 print with the leaves.

The pictures come out great although I forgot to take a photo of these.

Dylan 2.11

Brown leaf brown bear: book club activity

Brown bear brown bear what do you see? Fantastic book by Bill Martin jr featured authour in the virtual book club for september.

There is a huge tree that leaves loads of leaves on our front lawn. So we decided to link our autumn activity with the book club activity.

So here is the brown bear made from leaves, cardboard, paper, glue, scissors and googley eyes.

1. Collect some leaves.

2. Draw the outline of the bear

3.'put some pva glue on the bear

4. Stick some leaves on

5. Draw and cut the head out of cardboard

6. Stick on googley eyes

7. Add brown shading

8. Attach head to the body

All done!

Tip: try to use leaf stem as the claw.

This activity was quite fiddley for my two year old as the leaves  didn't stick very easily. Maybe if we had flattened them overnight first they wouldn't curl up so much.

Not quite a master piece but he enjoyed it and we sang the story as a song like Bill Martin jr on YouTube .

Dylan 2.11

Disney Planes: nature picture.

We collected some bits of nature from our garden and then I asked my son what picture we should make and he said Dusty a plane from the new Disney movie Planes.

So I guided what and where to place them to look like a plane (kind of)

Dylan was happy with this and enjoyed sticking the objects to the double sided table I had already attached.

One of I'm sure many nature pictures.

Dylan 2.11

Acorn and playdoh hide and seek

After acorn and playdoh math we played a sensory activity of hiding the acorns and retrieving them.  He had to feel how many there were with his eyes closed.

This was still a numeracy activity matching the number of hidden acorns revealed. 

Dylan 2.11

Acorns and playdoh math

On our walks Dylan has noticed acorns on the floor. We collected some on our last walk and decided to get them out while he was playing with playdoh.

He made acorns and had to match the number of real acorns to the playdoh ones.

Then he counted then.

Then he had to subtract them.

Then he had to add them.

He did extremely well at this I was very impressed.

Then he had to add them all together.

I have seen the acorn tops being used to imprint circles that could be used in numeracy. 

Dylan 2.9