Play-ability Childcare

We've been making coloured paper by transferring dye from wet tissue paper. Using water squirters to wet the paper is a great exercise for our developing hand muscles!

We've been exploring patterns, symmetry and positioning today by using loose parts to decorate butterfly wings.

Here are some of the wonderful representational drawings the children have made this week. It's been lovely to hear the children talk about what they have made. Pic 1: "

We picked strawberries from our garden to add to a Very Hungry Caterpillar inspired fruit salad.

Celebrating some of the beautiful snail collages we've been making recently, inspired by Matisse's Magical Trail. We've been using this as an opportunity to explore making representational drawings and the children have loved seeing that that they are able to express their ideas on paper, that they can create meaning through marks they make.

Beanstalk progress...

Celebrating some of the ways we've been exploring making marks on different surfaces, using a range of techniques and media.

Our beans are all planted in the garden now and the children are doing a wonderful job tending to them, just like in our previous core text, Jasper's Beanstalk.

Pic 1: before lunch; Pic 2: after lunch! The children were absolutely fascinated watching this snail (and other minibeast friends!) enjoying this strawberry this morning. We had lots of great conversations about whether we should let the animals eat the strawberry or whether it was OUR strawberry, so we should move it. They decided it was right that the animals should eat this one, but they wanted to pick all the other strawberries before the creatures get to them too.