Category Archives: Imaginary Play

Community, Creative Arts, Imaginary Play, Learning at home, Mark Making, Natural World, Outdoor Learning

Fairy Doors and Stone Painting

April 30, 2020 Mrs MacLeod Leave a comment

Are there any fairies living in woods near you?
Mrs MacLeod has noticed a few fairy doors in the woods near her house.
You could paint your own designs on stones or an old roof slate if you have any.
Mrs Hampton has been painting different insects and birds on stones at home too.

Who do you think lives behind these doors?

Here are Mrs Hampton’s lovely painted stones. What birds and insects can you see and paint?

If you go down to the woods today… look out for bluebells as well as fairies. They are starting to grow…

Community, Creative Arts, Eco Learning, Family, Fine motor skills, Health & Wellbeing, Imaginary Play, Learning at home, Mark Making, Music and Dance, Natural World, Numeracy & Mathematics, Outdoor Learning

Daily Walk Challenges (just in case you’re bored…)

April 26, 2020 Mrs MacLeod Leave a comment

Hello everyone,
We hope you have all been keeping well and enjoying some new experiences. If you have started to go out for a Daily Walk in the good weather, perhaps you might like a few new mini-challenges to take on your way. Or you could take part in a Design challenge with your family… Here are a few ideas:

Creative Arts, Imaginary Play, Learning at home, Literacy, Outdoor Learning

Fun ideas from Mrs Reynolds!

April 20, 2020 Mrs MacLeod Leave a comment

Hello everyone,
Hope you are finding lots of ways to have fun at home and in this lovely sunshine! Mrs Reynolds has shared some photos of great ideas she has been using with Erin at home:
TRANSIENT ART
An old cutlery tray filled with interesting objects like stones and cones and an old picture frame can be used outside to create many different patterns and pictures.

Below are some examples of outdoor Transient Art by the British environmental artist Andy Goldworthy. You might get some ideas from him…

DIFFERENT WAYS WITH A PADDLING POOL
1) Use it as a Wee Den to draw and read in

2) Erin’s Daddy’s birthday balloons were collected to make a place for dolls and teddies to have a party

3) RHYME FISHING:
Another idea is Rhyme Fishing in a paddling pool, an old baby bath or a washing up bowl. Fill it with water and throw in some rhyming objects (e.g. cork -fork; key-pea; petal-metal), then challenge your child to fish out the objects that rhyme using a ladle or other utensil. For an extra challenge you could work on a way to make your own fishing net…

Community, Creative Arts, Family, Imaginary Play, Mark Making, Natural World, Outdoor Learning, Performance, Technology & Construction

Welcome Spring !

March 18, 2020 Mrs Toman Leave a comment

Below is a selection of the Spring banners our children created to decorate the hall for our Daffodil Tea. They practised their Spring songs to sing to parents and visitors and thus helped raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Well done to all the children and a big thank you to all who supported the event!!

Imaginary Play, Literacy

We are Poets, and We Know It!

February 25, 2020 Mrs MacLeod Leave a comment

The children have been enjoying exploring rhyme through fabulous books like “Oi Frog” & “You Can’t Let an Elephant…”, alongside Rhyme bags, Story props and Rhyme Fishing in the Water Tray. They have taken great delight in generating their own rhymes, inspired by the books, and have come up with some great rhyming lines!

“Miss MacFarlane sits on a darling.”(EK)
“A rocket sits on a docket”(EH)
“A giraffe sits on a path.” (NN)
“Never let a bee come to tea.” (IMM)
“Don’t give a scare to a bear!” (EP)
“Don’t give a coat to a goat.” (MN)
“Don’t let a bear sit on your chair… or your hair” (FD)
“Don’t let a bunny eat your money.” (EC)
“That’s not a song because it’s just words. A poem is a thing that rhymes.” (HN)


“Honey… and money.”	“Pig rhymes with wig!” “The wig is too… BIG!”

“Goat goes in a….boat.”	Fishing for Rhyming Objects in the Water Tray. “Egg rhymes with peg!”
“Tree rhymes with me.”	“What rhymes with petal? That is made of metal!” “And it rhymes with Gretel… and kettle!”

Creative Arts, Imaginary Play, Mark Making, Science, Sensory Play, Technology & Construction

Space

February 14, 2020 Miss Henderson Leave a comment

We were listening to the story “Little Moon” about a moon that was lost in space.

After reading the story we drew pictures of our own planets and helped little moon to travel around the solar system to find his home, Earth.

We love singing along to the planets song and learning lots of cool facts!

click on the link below to listen at home:

The children worked together to create the surface of the moon. Lots of gluing, cutting and sticking to develop our fine motor skills.

We also made some rockets and astronauts for our tuff tray.

Our finished product! We enjoyed using our moon for role play and story telling.

Imaginary Play, Literacy, Outdoor Learning, Technology & Construction

Imagine that…

January 21, 2020 Mrs MacLeod Leave a comment

The nursery children have been busy in imaginary worlds of dinosaurs, fairies and robots:
“Look, come and see – someone lives behind this door…. It’s a spider!”
“Tinkerbell lives there.”
“Look, I found these magic beans. If I plant them they will grow into a beanstalk.”
“The dinosaurs can make footprints in the sand.”
“That one’s triceratops, that’s tyrannosaurus.”
“We need to make buttons for the robot.”


Two old bin boxes become great “robots”.	“Dinosaurs eat meat. Some live in the water, some can fly.”

Food & Cookery, Health & Wellbeing, Imaginary Play, Outdoor Learning, Science, Sensory Play

Spicing it Up

January 13, 2020 Mrs MacLeod Leave a comment

This week the children spent a long time experimenting in our
Spices Kitchen – smelling, mixing, pouring and describing as they made some very interesting potions, recipes and concoctions…

Some comments from our Young Cooks & Scientists:
“We’re mixing a new potion. Come on, let’s see what colour it makes. Potion No.1 & Potion No.2…”
“What happens when you put this in?… It’s turning yellow… now it’s turned orange.”
“How about this? This is going to be the spiciest one ever!”
“Smell ours, it’s the tastiest.”
“Now we’ve made soup…. and spicy potatoes. They smell yummy!”
“Smell the rosemary. I like that.”
“Look at our porridge. Let’s smell it. I like to put cinnamon in my porridge.”
“They turn squooshy in the water (oats)…
not crunchy.”

If anyone in the family has old/out-of-date spices not needed, please feel free to donate them for further experiments!

Community, Creative Arts, Culture & Traditions, Family, Food & Cookery, Health & Wellbeing, Imaginary Play, Loose Parts, Music and Dance, Performance

Festive Fun!

December 19, 2019 Mrs Toman Leave a comment

Grown ups enjoying a wee Christmas Treat!	Fabulous Jingle Bell smiles.
Mr Weir sneaking a mince pie.	Cheers! Christmas spirit and smiles all round.

A Christmas Story	Time to chat and have a catch up.
“Do not be afraid as we bring good news!”	Musical extravaganza from the fantastic Purple group.

“We are the bright shining stars in the night” Aqua group.	“Let’s keep Baby Jesus warm.
The shepherds saw a bright shining light and a host of angels appeared in the sky.	The kings travelled ‘bumping up and down on a camel.