Mess & Me

Here's a lovely list of ideas that I saw online...

Outdoor Time

Exploring rock pools on the beach
Sensory walk
Shadow drawing
Wash the car
Ride a bike/scooter
National Trust grounds are free during outbreak but check your local area
Scavenger hunt
Woodland welly walk
Play poohsticks
Gardening
Painting plant pots and plant seeds
Make a bird feeder
Make giant bubbles
Dinosaur hunt in the garden using toy dinosaurs
Egg hunt
Sink or float experiment
Fly a kite
Make a fairy garden
Make a mini spring nature garden
Pavement chalk
Puddle jumping
Water painting
Bug hunt
Make potions
Mud kitchen recipes
Have a picnic in the garden
Build a garden den
Create a nature scrapbook
Create some wild art
Paint on an easel
Set up a snail race
Make a daisy chain
Decorate a tree for spring/easter
Build a go cart
Geocaching (maybe wear gloves)
Look for shapes in the clouds
Spring scavenger hunt
Toast marshmallows
Build a bug hotel
Wash down the outdoor toys and play
Local park
Make a butterfly feeding table
Make a nature discovery table
Grow a bee and butterfly wild garden patch
Make a wormery
Build a sandcastle
Stick maze
Grow a plant/tree... play in mud with spade and pots
Fairy hunting in the woods
Make a time capsule and bury it
Feed the ducks - (oats, peas, corn, cut seedless grapes, birdseed NOT BREAD)
Build a mini wildlife pond
Pebble building/painting
Make perfume from cherry blossom
Build a pirate ship from recycled materials and float it in a local boating lake
Create an obstacle course in the garden

Active Time

Indoor/outdoor hopscotch
Masking tape maze
Musical statues
Tin can bowling
Balloon ping pong
Hide and seek
Body coach kids workout
Cosmic kids yoga
Simon says
Treasure hunt
Fort building
Indoor/outdoor obstacle course
The floor is lava game
Musical chairs
Set up a balance beam
Mimic each others moves
Dance party with your homemade playlist
Follow the trail using string
Newspaper scrunch and throw who can do the furthest away/target practice
Play catch
Spiderweb tape in hallway
Frisbee toss
Trampoline
Chalk maze
Relay race
Climb a tree
Twister
Skipping
Hula hoop
Play football
Play croquet
Play rounders
Walk the dog/neighbours dog
Water balloon fight
Play tag
Dodgeball

Quiet Time

Reading and make a little nook
Lego building contest/daily challenge
Puzzles
Jigsaws
Boardgames
Cosy up and watch a film
Write a letter to a friend/elderly at a local nursing home
Playdough creations
Sticker books
Colouring
Kids magazines
Scrapbooking
Play dress up
Make a shop
Learn basic words in another language
Learning about a topic whether it's dinosaurs or about another country
Learn about new skills e.g. sew, knit, bake, cook, crochet, planting
Do random acts of kindness (food parcel to an elderly neighbour)
Play cards--snap
Look through old family photos
Afternoon tea party

Creative Time

Spring crafts
Customise an old tshirt
Tie dye
Make a rainbow pom pom garland
Make a collage
Science experiments
Facepainting
Air drying clay models and paint
Paint stones/shells
Scratch art
Sand art
Make friendship bracelets
Make sock puppets
Bake a cake
Draw self portraits
Make paper dolls/aeroplanes
Leaf rubbing with crayons
Bake biscuits and decorate
Make jam
Paper mache
Make fluffy slime
Make gloop
Salt dough ornaments
Make moon sand
'I can cook' recipes
Cardboard box imagination play
Make own crayon shapes with moulds
Learn a magic trick
Chalk graffiti on an outside wall
Make a homemade gift
Make jewellery
Make sock puppets and put on a show
Google 'How to draw'
Make misfit characters
Marble painting
paper plate craft
Make jelly/fruit kebabs/ice lollies/ice cream
Make fake fossils
Paint with nature using sticks, flowers etc
Karaoke competition
Shoebox small world

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✨ Thank you to all the lovely parents, grandparents and carers that I've met this year doing this group. It's been lovely to do these sessions and my girls have loved them too 😍
I won't be continuing weekly sessions but there may be one off sessions in the new year so please keep an eye out 👀
Hope you all have a lovely Christmas 🎄✨

🎄 Stick Man session this morning 🎄

Still some spaces for Stick Man messy play, craft and storytelling session tomorrow at 10am @ The Herne Centre. 🎄
Please message if you'd like to reserve a place ✨

✨ Looking forward to Wednesday's Stickman session🍁🎅 We will be making stickmen, reindeer food, wooden baubles and lots of messy play.

Sadly this will be the last session for a while as I am unable to continue next term due to other work commitments 😥 however I'm hoping to do some one off sessions in the new year and will keep you posted 😊

✨ Next Wednesday's session will be a super Christmassy Stick Man session 🎅
Please message or comment to reserve a place 🎄🍀🍁

✨ Only managed a few pictures today! Thanks to everyone who came this morning 🌨️⛄❄️

✨ Snowy themed Messy play on Wednesday. There will be arctic animals lost in the foamy snow, sparkly playdough, the polar express, making snowman card and lots more! ❄️⛄🌨️
Please message or comment to reserve a place ✨

✨ Very Chrstmassy messy play session today! Thanks to everyone who came! 🎄🦕🎅

Fancy a beautiful, new, and unique wreath? 🎅🎄 There are still spaces tomorrow to join us to make a wreath, a letter to Father Christmas and wrapping paper...plus lots of Christmas messy play ✨☃️