Would you rather?

This is a fab game to play with children to get to know them better. You can download the game from my website. Click here

Olympic craft

Olympic torches

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Olympic ring craft

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Flag handprint wreath

Make a little animated cartoon

Click here to make a little animated cartoon video

More world cup resources

This fabulous link was sent to me.

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World cup resources

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Flags

Online activities

Picnic recipes and ideas from the Woodland trust

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Boggle word game - lots of premade, printable boards

Great resource for spelling, phonics, reading and to fit into any topics you are covering.

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Nature Detectives Adventure Pack from the Woodland Trust

Just ask for it to be emailed to you. Also check out the rest of the Woodland trust website. Well worth a visit.

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Lots of Spring ideas

Peace at Last

A few ideas and links for using the story Peace at Last

Wordsearch

Lotto game

Noises

Make a paper aeroplane

Nighttime and nocturnal animal resources

Make an aeroplane mobile and use this template for the aeroplanes

Make a cuckoo clock

Pairs game

Peace at last door sign

Peace at last matching lotto game

Design a garden for kids

Children can design and then print their own garden

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Make a snowflake

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Snowflake craft

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Winter clothes wordsearch

Christmas origami

These activities might be nice for older children. Would be nice to stick on the front of a home made card

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Christmas wordsearch

Santa's workshop role play

I have just started making somethings for my santa's role play area. Please keep checking back on this link because I will add things as I make them

Online Christmas fun

There are some fantastic sites out there. Here are a couple of my favourites

Light up all the Christmas lights

Penguin show (write your name in snow)

Snowman soup

Another lovely idea! Children could make these for their parents for a Christmas gift.

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Here is my snowman soup. I bought a cheap mug and snowman from 'Home bargains' - 99p, put in a galaxy hot chocolate, and a cadbury's hot chocolate, a candy cane, and some small marshmallows which I labelled as freeze dried snowballs.

Magic reindeer Food, Christmas dust

One of the members of the forum (blueliz) explained how she made christmas dust with the children each year. It is basically a mixture of oats and glitter. I have since read how it's best to use coloured sugar crystals due to the danger of birds eating the glitter. However, Liz explained how she made the dust and I thought it was lovely.

We sit in a circle, the lights off, so its dim. Depending on the children, I might have a large candle in the middle of the circle. I read a Christmas story, something about Santa Claus. I explain what we are making, Santa Dust, to sprinkle on our front step, front garden, driveway etc on Christmas Eve so Santa Claus will know a good little child lives there. The porrigde oats are for Rudolph and the other reindeers to eat, the glitter is the magic. We have a mixing bowl, a bag of porridge, and glitter. and take turns adding a small teaspoon of porridge and a pinch of glitter (the magic) to the bowl. Then stir it up, making a christmas wish. It's all very magical and atmospheric. When the bowl has gone round everybody we take turns to put a spoonful of the mixture into a small plastic bag, tied with a piece of thin parcel ribbon. I have little cards with a picture of Santa and a verse, which is attatched to the bag with the ribbons. Its a lovely calm, restful and magical activity at the end of term. just what the children need in the midst of the hustle and bustle. (And I love doing it to).

I found some other ways of making it, using birdseed, cheerios, coloured sugar crystals and of course rolled oats or oatmeal. To make coloured sugar crystals you basically add a couple of drops of food colouring to a bag of sugar and mix up well.

I made a couple of labels with two different poems but if you google there are loads more poems out there





click here and here for labels already set out and ready to print

I found out about it too late last year but I still made some for the children who live down my street and it went down very well.

Here is how I intend to do this activity. I am going to wrap up a parcel with brightly coloured Christmas paper. Inside will be a bag of oats, a bag of coloured sugar, a tablespoon, a teaspoon and a mixing bowl. There will also be a letter from Santa to read to the children. We will then make the Santa dust.

Here is the letter I have made



For lots more Christmas resources click here

Bonfire night word search

Recipes for children

I made these when my children were younger. They loved these recipes. Very simple and tasty.