Activity for children 2 years and over.
Equipment needed: large bowl, washing up liquid, plastic toys, jugs, sponges, dolls, and cutlery.
Fill the bowl with water and let your child see you add the washing up liquid to see the change and the bubbles appear. Add different objects and use as role play your child can pretend to wash up, pretend to bath the doll, or just play. The children often play together in this activity talking to each other and helping each other. We have to admit the bubbles is their favourite part and we’ve seen them make beards, bubble hats and snow when we’ve observed. We’re sure you’ll see some of this at home.
This activity will help your child take pleasure in learning new skills, talk freely about their home and community and talk activities through reflecting on and modifying what they are doing.
Activity for children under 2 years.
Equipment needed: tray, tin of spaghetti, spoons and cups.
Simply pour a tin of spaghetti onto the tray and let your baby explore using hands, spoons and cups. We have some fantastic photos we’ve been able to give to parents of their own child when they’ve been involved in messy play. We’ve seen parents in fits of laughter and astonishment at what their children have been up to during the day when we show them the results of this activity.
Babies will use their senses during the activity by touching, tasting, smelling, seeing whilst they play. Babies can use the cups to fill and empty with spaghetti.
Babies will develop their skills, explore objects and materials with hands and mouth and become absorbed in putting objects in and out of containers.
Activity for children aged 2 and over.
Equipment needed: chalk, ball, empty box and a small bin.
Using chalk you can create an activity course. Parents have told us when they try this at home their child often wants to draw the course themselves having a sense of responsibility and happy in demonstrating that they have done this before at nursery.
Cut out an empty box for crawling through.
Draw feet on the floor and encourage children to draw them to, as you draw them count along the way. Draw goals to kick the ball through then throw the ball up and see how many times you can catch it without dropping it. Crawl through the box using it as a tunnel then throw the ball into the bin to complete the course. You can repeat this activity and time it to improve your child’s speed. When we play this at the Red House, although it doesn’t really get competitive it is a real pleasure watching the children encourage each other and taking pleasure from everyone’s success and usually laughter when our carers fail.
This activity will help to develop self confidence and feel proud of their achievements.
Suitable for children under 2 years.
Equipment needed: soft toys and a soft surface.
Create a safe and comfortable area for you and your baby to play. During the play session you can sing songs for example row, row, row your boat, see saw margery daw and round and round the garden. You can also play games such as peek a boo using the soft toys to hide behind. Also encourage rolling over to reach for the toys. Use musical toys to encourage interest and exploration.
We have often seen babies start to make friends by attempting to play similar games with each other at The Red House.
This activity will help to develop their skills, learn that experiences can be shared, enjoy company of others and be sociable.
Download and print the Red House Nursery Colouring sheet.
Colour it with crayons, pencil, chalks or paint to create your own masterpiece.
Colouring Sheet – The Red House
To view the colouring you need to have Adobe Reader installed. Don’t worry its a free piece of widely used software and can be downloaded by following this link – Download Adobe Reader
You may have seen in the local press that we are open our doors on the Saturday 13th September.
Come and join in with our activities for children on the day, see our new facilities and learn about the new childcare curriculum. All of our staff will be on hand to answer any questions from parents and we have a range of activities for children to try on the day.
We look forward to seeing you.
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