The Very Hungry Caterpillar Fruity Snack

 

Way back in 2012 we had a Summer Bucket list where we did E for Eric Carle.
Part of this we looked at The Very Hungry Caterpillar, we made craft items and role played the book.
This was a snack a made for my son who was 2.4 years and he loved it.



Ingredients
Green apple
Plum
Blueberries
Raisins

Obviously you can change any items.

Yum Yum.

Not sure why this wasn't blogged about it 2012 but the Virtual book club has revisited this Book so I might try this again with my other son too.

Check out Inspiration laboratories to join in.
http://inspirationlaboratories.com/very-hungry-caterpillar-inspired-scavenger-hunts/

A-Z Baby Sensory themes

A

ANIMALS

ACORNS

B

BALLS

BLOCKS

BUBBLES

BALLOONS

C

CHRISTMAS

CHOCOLATE

CREAM

CUSTARD

COTTON WOOL

CITRUS FRUIT

COUS COUS

D

DUCKS

DIGGERS

DOUGH

DINOSAURS

DUPLO

E

ELEPHANTS

EASTER

EGGS

F

FEATHERS

FABRICS

FISHES/FISHING

G

GOOP

GIRRAFE 

GLITTER

H

HEARTS

HOOPS

HUMPTY DUMPTY

I

ICE

INK

INSY WINCY

J

JELLY

JUNGLE

K

KANGEROO

KRISPIES

L

LOLLIPOP STICKS

LEMON & LIMES

LIQUORICE

LENTILS

LEGO

M

MOOSE

MAGNETS

MIRRORS

MASKS

MARSHMALLOWS

MANGO

MEGABLOCKS

N

NOODLES

NATURE

O

OCTOPUS

OSTRICH

OOZE

ORANGES

P

PASTA

PEBBLES

PIPE CLEANERS

Q

QUEEN

R

RICE

ROCKS

S

STRAWS

SPAGHETTI

SALT

SAND

T

TUBS

TINS

TISSUE

TORCHES

U

UMBERELLAS

V

Vienetta

Vacuum

Vinegar 

Volcano

W

Watermelon

Water balloons

Wax

Water

X

Xylophone 

Y

YOGHURT

YARN

Z

ZEBRAS

Crane magnetic pick up

I tried this activity with my four year old about 1 1/2 ago and he loved it. So I wanted to try it with my 2.1 year old and he was more interested in the objects than the activity. Dylan liked using the wind up crane too. But I with Dylan my eldest he sat at the table do his attention was more focused .

Then Dylan came to check it out.

I used the sorting activity to stretch it for him. Wher he had to identify if it was magnetic or not? I also used objects that had both parts that were and weren't . But decided to place it in the magnetic part of the table if any part was magnetic.

I encouraged Dylan 4.9 to talk us through what he was doing and what he found using keywords like magnetic. I recorded this to keep. This helps develop his confidence and scientific enquiry skills .

We talked about what we notice I out the two piles and that the magnetic side were mostly metals but that not all metals are magnetic .

Dylan did this at 2.5

http://littlebrightsparks.blogspot.com/2013/05/crane-magnetic-metal-detector.html

Tin Robot

One of the items on the bucket list was to create a robot. 

Materials

Tin can

Glue

Magnetic tape or spots 

Lids

Scrap metal

Buttons

Pipe cleaners

Anything really 

We used glue and sticky magnetic tape to create the robots .

Great fun and some objects can be kept for next time or other magnet activities

Neighbourhood yellow hunt

A favourite of my 4 year old is coloured themed days which we finish off with. a colour hunt walk around the neighbourhood.  however I didn't have chance to take pics of the one on yellow day so I made sure we completed one later too capture it.

So what did we see...?

Loads of flowers 

Diggers

Signs

Skip

Builders vest

Number plates

Litter

A garage 

A car (gold really)

We discussed this sign I always ask what he thinks they mean. He usually guess right . 

Flowers 

More flowers . We did the buttercup trick where you hold it under the chin and if it shines yellow then you like butter . Obviously if you don't like butter this doesn't work 😄

More signs and an activity of climbing the fence. Which he loved!

Where he found more flowers

We went passed a builders yard that had yellow advertising signs. We read them and explained as best as I could what they were.

I never managed to get the skip or garage as the person was on their drive and I thought it was rude . 

The car was too fast .

Finally we went to the shop and got a kinder egg .

Dylan 4..9, Zac 2.1

DJs Book Review: Shark in the park!

Dylan's pre-school sends a book home every week and he has a reading book log where we write comments .  I have often searched online to find out about potential book purchases so I thought why not combine information fo others and record memories too.

So I will give an overview of the book and Dylan's response . 

The book is part of a series I think about a shark .  

A boy looks through a telescope and sees shapes that look like a sharks fin. Each time he is mistaken. Although the shark appears at the end unbeknown to the boy.

I think this book is colourful, has repetition and rhyming. I love the peep hole that you turn to reveal the true object. This instills excitement and suspense. Both my 4 year old and 2 year old enjoyed it.

Dylan's response was can we read it again? Which we did but I let him fill in loads of the gaps.

His favourite part was when he saw the shark at the end. I think he was shocked! 

He read it from memory (partially) to his ban the next day. He was so excited. This shows it was a good book!

Storytelling telling pyramid

We played a story telling game with storytelling dice.

Dylan made a pyramid out of the dice and then we used the pictures in the pyramid to make up a story.

I recorded his story. It was very strange but I'm sure with practise they will make sense .