Making Butterfly WingsThis fun activity can be initiated by the whole family. You can provide the children with resources such as cardboard, different paints and coloured glitter. You can initiate the activity on the floor in an open environment so that your children have access to it. You can even help support their learning by providing challenges such as using different resources for example, small twigs, and using them to create the outline of the butterfly wings. Then support the children to stick them together with sellotape.
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Water and Shaving Foam Cream PlayThis simple, creative activity will allow children the opportunity to become messy. Parents can provide a tray of whatever size and add cold water to the tray. Once that is completed add shaving foam cream on top to provide a different texture for your child to experience. Your child can create different patterns with their fingers and any other resource of your choice. You can join in with the fun and help support their learning by asking if they enjoy it to help promote communication and language. You and your child can enjoy half an hour or more of messy play, smiling, laughing and clapping.
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Mark Making with FlourThis simple activity encourages children to use what ever they have to hand (including their hands) to make marks and patterns in the flour. This can be done on a tray, table, in the garden or on a plate. For the best effects it will work on a resource which is dark so that the children can see their marks in the white flour easily. You can use vegetables, cutlery, a sieve, lollipop sticks or whatever the child chooses. The children will not only be expressing themselves but will be learning about cause and effect, about textures and even a bit of maths for example more and less, high or low. You could help their learning too by asking if they could use 2 hands, or asking them what it feels like and that also will help their communication. You will be enjoying special time together and your smiling, pointing, clapping and talking to your child, whatever their age will help them with their communication and language.
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