Having lived in the Midlands for seven years, there are still a lot of places we have yet to explore. Last week, during the Easter break, we went to Beaudesert Park Farm for an education tour hosted by Aiming High via Staffordshire Council. Helpfully, I had my TomTom Sat Nav to give me a helping hand to find Beaudesert Park Farm. We were greeted by Mary, the owner and her helper who guided us through the whole session.
Sensory Play with Cra-Z-Sand
Sensory play is a great way to stimulate children’s five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. Through these activities, it would naturally help children to learn to play, create, investigate and explore. Cra-Z-Sand is just perfect for the job as it is easier to clean up than the real sand and it is non-toxic.
Tuesday Tutorials 2015 Week 13
A huge welcome to Week 13 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! I wish you all an early Happy Easter and have a great break! This week I am featuring sensory ideas.
Spring Sensory Activity: Clean Mud
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Clean mud is also known as Ghost mud which is commonly used for sensory activity. It smells fantastic. How did it get its name? Well, I heard from friend that it originated from prison which I can understand why. In prison, the one things that they allow in their cell are soap, toilet paper and water! They must have been bored with time to kill and invented this clean mud to play in their cells! Clean mud feels like Play Doh but it is very wet and slippery!
Five Rainy Football Activities
My son is football mad! He is an outgoing boy who loves nothing more than sports. I find it quite exhausting trying to keep up with him. However the weather in the UK can be so gloomy and rainy so we have made up a few football activities to do for my football mad son that can be done indoors.
Blaze and the Monster Machines Post Twitter Party
Did you join us yesterday for Blaze and the Monster Machines Twitter party? We all had a lovely time with UKMumstv and Nick Jr on Twitter #NickJrBlaze. It was very manic as usual and I tweeted about my children’s creations!
Yesterday was the Blaze and the Monster Machines première and it was our first time watching it! My son totally loves it! It is definitely an animated cartoon he will watch again and again! It is about AJ, an 8 year old techie who drives monster-truck Blaze, the top racer in Axle City. Blaze is Axle City’s greatest hero and it’s number one racer! Blaze knows everything about science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Each episode introduces different STEM concepts, including buoyancy and trajectory which are the activities that we did together during the party.
After both children completed their maze, we made these two awesome Blaze Monster cars out of chocolate, Jelly Babies and Smarties! Don’t they look cool!
Blaze and the Monster Machines Twitter Party
This coming Friday 6th March, I will be taking part in Blaze and the Monster Machines Twitter Party along with other bloggers to learn through educational STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) focussed activities at home and share our activities from our parties.
Chinese New Year Matching Game
At our Chinese club, we regularly play matching games as this is an easy way to get the children recognise the words and to keep their attention. In the next lesson, we are teaching the children the auspicious greeting words to use during the Chinese New Year. This Chinese New Year Matching game is suitable for aged 7 and above.
Tuesday Tutorials 2015 Week 3
A huge welcome to week 3 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! I can’t believe we are in the 3rd week already and there’s not long before it is going to be Valentine’s day and Chinese New Year.
8 Chinese New Year Children’s Activities
I had mentioned in my previous blog post that I would be sharing Chinese New Year’s craft ideas and different types of sheep crafts with you. Today, I am sharing eight different types of activities that you can do with your children.
I always wanted my children to learn and understand our Chinese culture. But living in the UK, it is quite hard to expose my children to our Chinese culture. So I decided to bring it closer to them by showing them the different types of crafts I made when I was young and let them taste different types of New Year’s food like Nian Gao and other types of goodies. One day I will bring them to Singapore Chinatown for Chinese New Year.
The Snowman Game
Recently at the NickJrCraftmas party with UKMumstv and Nick Jr on Twitter, we had played the dress the snowman game which is very popular among the children. This is what you will need to play the game.
5 Bath Foam Activities
Learning through play is a great way to help young children to develop their social, physical and intellectual skills. It encourages them to get creative and imaginative.
Summer Activities A – Z: S
Today we did our summer activities letter S. There were a whole list of activities and these are just a few of the selection.
Summer Activities A – Z: R
Welcome to my Summer Activities letter R. If you have been following my Summer Activities Pinterest board, you probably know that we have been busy trying to do one letter each day to enliven our summer break. However, we did put it on hold due to an overseas holiday, so we’re slowly catching up the letters.
Summer Activities A – Z: P
We did quite a lot of things for the letter P and hope this gives you some inspiration for summer activities to do together with your children.