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Make your wormery:

Here’s a list of things you will need: Gather together an empty plastic bottle, or jar. A pair of scissors. Some garden soil, sand and or compost. A few leaves, then lastly, a few worms dug up from your compost heap or garden.

1. First using scissors, very carefully cut the top off your bottle. You can use any size of bottle.

2.  Next, layer bottle with equal layers of soil, sand and Compost. Don’t worry if you don’t have everything, it will work just as well using only soil.

1. Put your leaves on the top then add in a few worms, freshly dug.

  4. Last,  place in a dark corner of your garden and sit back and watch what happens over the summer.

1. How many bones in a Slug?

2.How many shells does a snail carry on his back?

1. How many feelers does a beetle have?

2. How many ants in the picture?

3. Count the wings on a dragonfly. How many does she have?

4. How many spots on the ladybirds back?

5. How many openings in the beehive?

6. How many petals does the green flower have?

7. Count the spiders legs, how many does he have?

8. How many leaves?

9. count the ladybugs, how many???

Answers. 1. Zero 2. One  3 Two  4. Three 5. Four 6. Six

7.Five 8. Seven 9. Eight 10. Nine and finally,….11. Ten

Making pasta jewellery is a great way for children to express their creativity as well as helping to develop their fine motor skills and hand eye co-ordination.  Here’s a video which explains how to dye your pasta.  Can you think of others ways to be creative with your coloured pasta shapes ?

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Target throwing games are a great way to help promote a variety of developmental skills in children including hand eye co-ordination, agility, manipulative and evaluating skills.  Children also build confidence and self-esteem as they become more skilful at these kinds of games.  You can use a variety of resources around the home including boxes, washing baskets or even plastic crates outdoors. Bean bags are great for throwing, however, if you don’t have any of these at home you could use small soft toys, plastic ball pool balls or even small stones outdoors.

Be creative and use your imagination to create a bug, creepy crawlie or beastie of your choice.

Using anything you can find indoors or out to create your picture and /or model.

No clues, hints, tips or ideas.

It’s your creation, it’s up to you.

Take photos and email to me anna.brown@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Have fun😘

This is a great activity that focuses on both, maths and physical development. Set the timer on your phone or watch to either 30 seconds or 1 minute. Ask your child to count how many star jumps, hops, squats or any other exercises you can think of, they can complete in the time allowed.  Count along with bigger numbers to help your child become familiar with them.

Can you remember some of the beast and bug names from our story about Superworm? Here are some for today’s fitness challenge. Remember to drink water as you go to stay hydrated.

1. Lie on the floor, or ground and wriggle and move like Superworm.

2. Crouch down and jump around like 🐸baby Toad, but stay away from the road.

3. Stand up tall, spread your arms out like wings and making a buzzing sound, fly around the room or garden flapping your wings like a bee.🐝

4. Crouch on your hands and feet with bottom in the air and skuttle along like a beetle or bug.🐜🦗

5. Slip and slide on your hands and knees pretending you are a slug, or snail. 🐌 Can you creep up quietly on a grown up and shout boo!😂 Hee…hee….

6. Pretend to be Incey, wincey Spider climbing a waterspout.🕷️

7. Lie on your back and pretend you are an ant, or earwig wiggling your arms and legs trying to get onto your tummy.🐜🦗

8.Run extra fast like a Wizard Lizard.🦎

1. Fly your wings wide and flap and screech like Servant Crow as you fly around in circles.

10.Lie still like a Caterpillar 🐛 and breath in through your nose and out through your mouth until you have cooled down. Breath in and out deeply and slowly.

Enjoy🎉🏆🌟and have fun. Ask grown ups to join in too.

Phonological awareness is an important step in communication and language development.  Here is some information and games from Speech and Language in East Ayrshire # Get Wee People Chatting Facebook page. This is a great resource for information, tips and ideas to help you support your child’s communication and language development.