KiddiFeet International Kindergarten - Englanninkielinen Päiväkoti

Celebrating Chinese New Year through hands-on exploration and creativity! In the tuff tray, the children made their own ‘Chinese noodles’ with different materials and practiced using chopsticks. They also created colorful Chinese lanterns with bubble wrap and designed a traditional fish using vibrant colors — all while enjoying festive music. A joyful sensory and cultural experience full of learning and fun!

Starting the week with tuff tray fun: sequencing numbers with colors and wooden logs, word building with magnetic letters, and music time with keyboard and headphones.🎨🔢🔤🎹

Today we took our learning outdoors, enjoying a beautiful snowy day at the park. During circle time, surrounded by fresh snow, the children explored colors by mixing them in the snow, created different shapes using molds, and even built a snowman using natural materials. A wonderful opportunity to connect with nature, encourage creativity, and experience a different kind of circle time in the fresh winter air.

Through open-ended exploration with loose parts, the children manipulated different materials such as egg cartons, skewers, straws, and cardboard. They experimented with balance, positioning, and structure, creating their own constructions. Some even formed geometric shapes, building houses and numbers. A hands-on experience supporting fine motor skills, early maths, problem-solving, and creativity.

Learning step by step and caring for our materials.

✨‼️ Bringing Snow Indoors: Learning Through Winter Play

We brought some snow from outside into the classroom and explored it through play, modeling, and painting. The children observed how colors mix, how different shapes can be created, and how the snow changes its state over time. A hands-on sensory experience that encouraged curiosity, creativity, and scientific thinking.

During circle time, we explored the letter sounds in the word ROBOT and connected them to hands-on learning. The children then created their own robots through free choice, using a variety of materials, and later expanded their ideas with construction materials, supporting and helping the younger children along the way. This activity encouraged early literacy, creativity, collaboration, and peer support :)

Inspired by the creative spirit of the 1980s, the children created their own robots using recycled materials. They designed and built them, gave them names, and decided to turn them into bags so they could take their robots with them everywhere. One of the robots even became a ‘hungry robot’, now cared for and fed by the youngest children in the school. This child-led activity supported creativity, autonomy, fine motor skills, and imaginative thinking, just like in the 1980s, when making things by hand was part of everyday play 🤖