AnonyMouse_11396 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 (edited) Hi we are exploring people that help us as well as occupations, following the children's interest. The children really enjoy activities using envelopes with mark making tools, so next week we are going to have the role play area as a post office, with stampers, forms to fill in, boxes of varying sizes with brown paper, wrapping paper, string, sellotape, masking tape. The children can make their own letters, pictures and we can walk in small groups to the post box to send to their homes. Any others ideas as my minds gone to mush would be great :rolleyes Edited March 18, 2011 by bridger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_19782 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Could you have some type of sorting system into shoe boxes or baskets? Our children like sending letters to each other as well as sending something home, and they sort them into the baskets to give out later, depending upon age, they could sort different sized envelopes instead as an activity. They have also designed their own stamps to use, they can draw as big as they like and I reduce the pictures on the photocopier to something like postage stamp size. Apart from their stamps I also buy in 1p stamps from the post office for them to use on envelopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_11396 Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 Thanks great ideas Panders, now why did i not think of sorting, see i told you my mind had gone to mush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_13453 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 We made passports for our teddy bears - children brought them in and took photographs of them and we printed them out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Scales - for weighing the large packages! And our local PO has a pick and mix section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_19762 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Must be something in the air! This week we have written to the 'zoo' - as per the book...... Children have drawn a picture each of the 'pet' that they would like the zoo to send.......we will be walking to our PO one day next week......the children will be able to see the process of their letter being weighed, buy the stamps and post it in the box...... A few days later we will receive a letter from the zoo - it will explain how they made their choice.......we didn't send you - an elephant because it would be too big etc. etc. -delivered with the letter a pet carrier containing a (toy) puppy and a further explanation that the puppy will need to go home with each child in turn as it couldn't possibly be left at pre-school overnight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_19782 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Oh how sweet Sunnnyday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_3735 Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 free stuff.. not checked fully but this may be of use.. found this link hard to track down though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_11396 Posted March 19, 2011 Author Share Posted March 19, 2011 Thank you everybody fantastic as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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