Dalrymple Early Childhood Centre

Making and Paintbrushes and Paint

You will need
Sticks or pegs
String
Various leaves, straw, grass, flowers, weeds, pinecones etc.
Water
Mud, berries, leaves, grass the possibilities are endless.

To make the brushes
Attach long grass, straw, leaves flowers pinecones etc. onto a stick using the string (or peg onto a clothes peg).

To make the paint
Encourage the children to experiment with different natural resources to create the paint.
Mix what the children have found i.e. mud with water and use the brushes to paint with.
Paint onto the ground, trees etc.
Ask the children to paint onto paper so they can display their picture indoors.

Hi boys and girls, hope you are all well. It’s Monday again.
This week I am going to be posting some activities about patterns, we can find patterns all around us. I have patterned paper on my wall for instance.
I wonder if you can find some patterns in your house or garden.
Here are a couple of different patterns to get you started.

Good Morning!

Its Monday again. Here is a video of the song Head Shoulders Knees and Toes. I hope you’ve not forgotten the actions!! I hope you have fun practicing today 🙂 x

I meant to share this with you all at the beginning of the week…Our caterpillars have all changed into cocoons.  Won’t be long now until they change again, but what to next?

Callum and Corey love to dress up.  Look at your muscles Callum.  You have definitely been eating your fruit and vegetables

If you haven’t already could I please ask that you send in your 6-10 recording of your child waving, dancing or doing some sort of act for our video.  We are still waiting on lots and don’t want anyone to miss out on this lovely nursery memory.

Thank you

Charlie has a message for all her friends…

Supporting your child’s independence with solving simple problems

Encourage your child to resolve problems by talking when they don’t understand or something isn’t going well.

Create simple patterns and ask your child to continue this on or draw a pattern.  Try using different materials for drawing such as pencils, pens, paint or chunky chalk outdoors.

Encourage your child to compare sizes/weights.  What can you do to make both sides weigh the same? You can add this experience into snack preparation or even bake a cake together.

Support the development of fine motor skills to support early writing techniques.  This is all about using pincer grip through activities such as threading, manipulating playdough, Hammering golf tee’s or nails into playdough/boxes/wood

It is important that children also learn when to ask an adult for help.

Cloud Watching

Take some time out to relax in your garden by lying down and watching as the clouds float by.

Use you imagination to find shapes, animals, dinosaurs etc in the clouds that are above your head.

Once you have watched the clouds you could draw what you have see.  E-mail us a photo of  your drawings we would love to see them.