Ideas for activities, themes and topics

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   posters to brighten up our outside area

   May 1, 2014 by AnonyMouse_43045

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   I have just brought myself a Laminater and pouches !!! (does not take much to please me !l I spent all Sunday Lamenting pictures /posters that would look great outside. SO Monday i set outside out with posters , looks fantastic then !!!!! They fall down grrrrrr .I have used electric tape , double sided tape and the white tape but after a while it falls down!!!! We have to pack away every day so they can not be permently fixed as our playground is the church car park !!! Any suggestion from anyone please x

   

   Last reply by AnonyMouse_64, June 29, 2014

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   Role play dinosaur museum

   June 14, 2014 by AnonyMouse_35585

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   Hi Following on from children's interests in dinosaur, we want to set up a dinosaur museum role play. We want it to include a variety of dinosaur themed discovery type activities, but also include the other areas of learning. So far we have got: measuring toy dinosaurs digging for fossils in soil and leaves- with magnifying glasses and brushes to brush off dirt playdough- making dinosaur fossils Has anyone got any other ideas of what we could add? Thanks

   

   Last reply by Guest, June 15, 2014

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   Flour babies

   May 28, 2014 by AnonyMouse_35585

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   Hi Has any one made flour babies with their children (balloons with faces filled with flour). I remember having them when I was younger and it was very therapeutic squashing it in my hands and we have a few boys who I think it may help when they get upset/angry. We do have feely balloons in our discovery and have had only had 3 burst over the year. Do you think the balloons will be strong enough as a tension reliever for our boys? Hope that makes sense :1b

   

   Last reply by Guest, June 8, 2014

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   SPACE

   June 5, 2014 by AnonyMouse_41644

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   Space is on the agenda for next week. just wondering if any one has any good ideas for literacy and numeracy ideas for this topic.

   

   Last reply by AnonyMouse_41644, June 6, 2014
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   Interest in babies

   April 25, 2014 by AnonyMouse_35585

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   Hi We have 2 sisters at preschool and their mummy has just had a new baby. Being a small setting (only 13 children) all our children have become engrossed in playing with our dolls and anything baby related. Before Easter we had the baby in to visit and all the child held her whilst her big sister told them all how to hold her! I've seen pictures of our children over Easter and it seems most of them are still very into babies. So I've decided to set up a baby care centre role play area with baby baths, bottles, prams, cots, weighing scales, clothes, highchair, carseats. Any ideas of anything else we could add? Also, have you got any activities we could do that are a…

   

   Last reply by AnonyMouse_19782, May 15, 2014

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   Sweet shop role play

   April 17, 2014 by AnonyMouse_35585

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   Hi Our children have requested a sweet shop role play for after easter. We thought we would save easter egg boxes and chocolate boxes. I was thinking of having playdough to make their own sweets. Any one done this before or got any ideas? Thank you :1b

   

   Last reply by AnonyMouse_14268, April 17, 2014

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   A spark......

   April 5, 2014 by AnonyMouse_2821

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   If you had to ask a question to ignite a theme what would it be? Such as Colours- when the lights go out will the colours still be there? Space- how does the moon stay in the sky?

   

   Last reply by AnonyMouse_8466, April 8, 2014

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   Dinosaur bones

   March 19, 2014 by AnonyMouse_3139

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   One of our little lads loves dinosaurs and because we've been gardening this week I thought we could dig for dinosaur bones next week, keep everyone away from the freshly planted seeds! Can I use real bones, bleached and washed or does anyone know where i can buy affordable large plastic ones?

   

   Last reply by AnonyMouse_30128, April 6, 2014

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   Despicable me

   March 27, 2014 by AnonyMouse_35585

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   Hi our children have shown a big interest in the minions from the film despicable me. Any ideas how we can follow this interest? My mind is drawing a blank thanks

   

   Last reply by AnonyMouse_9650, March 28, 2014

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    Sensory Display

    March 8, 2014 by AnonyMouse_43045

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    Hi everyone Not sure if I am posting in the correct place ?! I had an Idea to do a display that uses all 5 senses .We are doing growing at the moment so I thought the easiest thing to do would be a garden. Today we made Daffodils I added Lemon food essence to the paint. I thought of Blue Bells for sound Orange Blossom (orange food essence) Tomato and Onion for smell/printing Sand in paint for touch ........................... HAs anyone else got some ideas ?

    

    Last reply by AnonyMouse_39998, March 9, 2014

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