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Bird Song Identification
- Posted by: April Gutensohn, April 12, 2020
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Today’s activity is inspired by a member of our community. She wrote to me saying she was missing the woods and the countryside and could I please send her a video. So Today I am doing just that. I am no cinematographer (as you will see!) but I shot a short video in ...
Create a Wildlife Friendly Garden
- Posted by: April Gutensohn, April 11, 2020
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This activity comes to us from our community again — Thank you for keeping in touch and sending us your ideas! I love that we are all coming together to keeps our children connected to nature. Thank you! Do you have a back garden? If you do this one is for you. If ...
Easter ‘Egg’ Hunt
- Posted by: April Gutensohn, April 10, 2020
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This activity comes to us from Pascale. I love Pascale’s ideas as they are all very child directed so the child takes ownership for and participates in the activity with out the top down approach of some adult directed activities. Perfect for this weekend or for any ...
Live Web Cams
- Posted by: April Gutensohn, April 9, 2020
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Today’s activity is one that you can pop back and visit everyday. It is such a wonderful thing to get a peek into the lives of animals that we would not normally see. This website has multiple live webcams running all over the world so you can watch animals you may se ...
Giant Noughts and Crosses
- Posted by: April Gutensohn, April 8, 2020
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This activity comes from Pascale. As Pascale has Montessori training she has chosen an activity that is entirely child led. You can offer them the idea and see if it peaks their interest. If it does, great! Let them organise it all and possibly join them for a game when ...
Stick Wind Chime
- Posted by: April Gutensohn, April 7, 2020
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This lovely idea come from Chloe, she is full of great ideas. As you may have noticed there is a theme to Chloe’s ideas, beauty, craft and things that would look gorgeous on Pinterest. She is such a creative person and continues to amaze me the more I learn about her ...
Cloud Watching
- Posted by: April Gutensohn, April 6, 2020
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This activity is a great one to do any day inside or out. You can just have a cloud viewer made up and take it along on walks or having it sitting by a window to be used at any point. Having it there and ready to go makes it more likely that they children will use it. Clou ...
Story Stones
- Posted by: April Gutensohn, April 5, 2020
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This is another one for the older children to make but it will become a great activity that the whole family can play once it is finished. This is a great literacy activity for all ages and makes a lovely homemade substitute for Rory’s Stories Cubes. Story Stones For ...
Fairy Furniture
- Posted by: April Gutensohn, April 4, 2020
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This is a great activity for older children but there are plenty that younger children can do to help with this too. This could tie in nicely with the miniature garden we made a couple of weeks ago. How is it doing? Are you remembering to water it to keep your plants aliv ...
Sink or Float
- Posted by: April Gutensohn, April 3, 2020
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Today’s activity can, again use up some of your left over bits and pieces from last week’s activities or you can head out for a walk and choose a few new ones you find lying around. If you are self isolating try using objects you can find around the house. This ...