Nursery

The following websites have guidance and information to support activities with your nursery age child;

10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItincwrwWhA

We would also suggest any of the following activities;

Physical

– Building a den, inside or out (Reading in a den is great fun, especially using a torch!)

– Obstacle course, inside or out.

– Put on your favourite music and dance

– Play hide and seek indoors or outdoors or tig tag outside

– Play ‘pooh sticks’ by a local stream (remember safety first!)

– Build towns and buildings with construction or junk models

– Wash a car or ‘paint’ the outside walls or fence with a paintbrush and water

– Treasure hunt, inside or out.

– Make a homemade dice with an old box and write different animal actions e.g. stomp like a dinosaur, hop like a frog then get rolling and moving.

– Make indoor hopscotch using paper and pens (links with numeracy).

– Cosmic Kids Yoga on YouTube

– Sleeping Bunnies

– Ring a Ring o Roses

– The Bean Game

– Simon Say

Expressive arts

– Messy play; paint/shaving foam/dried foods/make your own playdough.

– Music making; pots/pans/wooden spoons or other household items.

– Make up your own dance routine.

– Make your own musical instrument.

– ‘Transient art’ – use sticks to create any shape and use other natural materials to create

your own master piece.

– Google famous artists and try to copy their style – Van Gogh, Monet etc.

– Sing nursery rhymes and songs.

– Bake simple recipes and involve kids in cooking of family meals.

– Playdough model making.

– Printing with paint e.g Fruit and Vegetables, cookie cutters, kitchen roll tubes.

Literacy

– Read stories and talk to the children about the characters/author/illustrator.

– Ask children to retell parts of the story.

– Ask children to express their opinions e.g likes/dislikes of stories.

– Ask children to describe what is happening in pictures in books.

– Make up your own stories and act them out or hold a puppet show for your family.

– Mark making with any tools -chalk, pens, pencils, paint, sand, mud, shaving foam.

– Introduce new words to your child’s vocabulary when talking through daily routines.

– Use a device to record your child singing or talking. Record your voice reading a story for

your child.

– Help to ‘write’ the shopping list or jobs to do around the house.

– Play “Kim’s game” for memory and attention.

– Talk about different places that we see letters and how they are used.

– Encourage children to recognise letters relevant to them e.g. first letter of their name.

– What am I activity, adult gives clues about an animal and children have to work out what animal it is.

– Cutting paper with scissors (Develops fine motor skills).

Numeracy

– Bring numeracy into everyday conversation; “how many stairs are we climbing”.

– Bring numeracy and the natural world together; make “patterns” with

leaves/stones/shells.

– Colour or Shape scavenger hunt.

– Bake any basic items and introduce numeracy when weighing, measuring & counting

– Sort the laundry. Count the socks, sort into patterns etc.

– Play dominos and other pairs activities.

– Giant shape match; on a large piece of paper trace round lots of shapes then get children to match them up.

– Share coins with your children talk about the names of them and the numbers on them.

STEM

– Sink/floating activities with water and different items.

– Build your own homemade marble run.

– Problem solving with daily chores around the house

– Help to ‘fix’ things around the house. Work out how things work.

– Lego/Duplo challenge, each day ask children to build or create something, the more

creative the better.

– Salt painting.

– Make a Kaleidoscope.

– Make a mini eruption – baking soda, coloured paint or food colouring and vinegar.