Here is a wonderful way to decorate some eggs for Easter! Enjoy 🙂

Materials Needed:

hard-boiled eggs
food colouring
Shaving foam
tray
plate
spoon/spatula

1. Squeeze shaving foam into a tray covering most of the tray with a layer of foam.

2. Drop some little drips of food colouring into the foam. You can use one colour or a mixture of different colours.

3. Use the back of a spoon or fork to swirl the colour through the shaving foam.

4. Gently place your eggs into the foam and using a spoon or spatula again gently cover the eggs entirely.

5. Leave them sitting in the foam for 20 minutes.

6. Carefully remove the eggs with a spoon and either pat dry gently with a paper towel or gently rinse under cold water.

Here is the link to a video showing you how this can be done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC3OujlLtGQ

Create an Easter Garden

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An Easter garden is more than just a pretty centre piece for your Easter lunch, it is a way to help teach children about Jesus and how he died for us and rose into Heaven.

For your own garden you will need:

A tray
Soil
Grass seeds or moss
Small stones
A large stone
A piece of small white cloth
A small flower pot
6 sticks to make into 3 crosses
String

Instructions:

Place your flower pot on its side on the tray (this will be tomb) and cover half the tray (including over the side of the flower pot) with soil, this will make a hill side. On the other half put your small stones.
If you are doing this with over week before Easter you could always plant some grass seeds in the soil and watch them grown. If like us you don’t have that long find some moss that is growing on a wall and peel it off to cover the soil area. We also dug up some pansies that were growing between some paving stones in the garden to add some colour to our garden.
With your sticks use them to make three crosses and secure them with bits of string. Stick them into the top of the “hill”, if you have one cross that is bigger than the others, place it in the centre of the three crosses to represent the cross which Jesus was crucified on.
Finally with the piece of white cloth, fold it up and put it in the tomb and place the large stone in front of the entrance to the tomb. On Easter Sunday roll the stone away to show that Jesus has risen.

Even if you aren’t religious this is a simple activity to do to teach children about different cultures and religions.

Here is a link to a youtube video showing you how it can be done:

Story Time – Augustus and his Smile Activities

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Hello, the author of Augustus and his SMILE, Catherine Rayner, has suggested you might want to do some follow up activities to the book.

Activity Sheets

You could colour in the Augustus Colouring Sheet and then send me a picture of it.

David

Silver – Thursday 2nd April

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Good morning!

Hope you’re all up out of bed and ready to start your day 🙂

Circle Time

Usual circle time routine that’s on the blog page! Maybe next week we could try a video chat for circle time?!

Life skills

Can you try doing your own breakfast dishes today?

Maths

topmarks.co.uk have lots of fun maths games for all ages! Have a look and see what you can find 🙂 They also have an app for iPads and Android tablets.

Fiddly Fingers

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Have a look at these challenge cards and pick another one to complete 🙂

Story

Keep your eyes peeled for Nicole’s story massage today! You’ll find it under “Blue class” on the right hand side.

Sign of the Day

Lorna’s sign of the day video. My favourite daily routine 🙂

Music

Have a look at Gordon and Connie’s lovely music posts. Select “music” on the right hand side!

Sensory time

Dance

Again, look for the “dance” button on the right hand side!

Have a good day everyone!

Amy

Maths Shape Activity 3

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Hello Everyone.

I hope you manages to make some interesting patterns with rectangles or squares,

Today why not try making a pattern with circles?

Find a lid or coin and draw around it to make circles. Now make a pattern with the circles. Is it easier or harder to work with circles than rectangles? What’s different about circles? Would tiles that are circles be a good shape to use to cover your bathroom wall? Why?

Here is a Jack Hartmann maths song to get you counting and moving

Sensory Play shaving foam

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Hi Everyone.

It’s not too long till Easter so I thought you could try 2 activities in 1.

Why not try making some shaving foam Easter egg pictures.

You will need :

shaving foam, paint or food colour, a tray, paper, something to stir the shaving foam with. and a scraper to take off excess foam, scissors.

What to do:

Put shaving foam in try, add some drops of colour, drag a stick through it to make a pattern, place a piece of paper on top and gently press down. Scrape the excess saving foam off and leave to dry.

When you have made your marbled paper you can cut out some Easter Egg shapes.

Here is a link to help you: https://typicallysimple.com/marbled-paper-easter-eggs/

Don’t worry if you don’t have any paint or colour you can have fun playing in the shaving foam!

Clare

Group 5 Story time

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Hi everyone,

Today’s story is What a Mess. It is a slightly longer story so it is in two parts. I hope you like it as much as I do. I just love the pictures.

Tomorrow’s choice (the final choice before the Easter holidays) is …

In this story Slinky Malinki (a cat) goes out to meet his friends. Find out what they get up to and where they all settle down at the end of the night.

or …