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Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Play Learning Tuesday: Play Dough Eggs, Bunny and Q-tip painting
Today, I'm sharing three activities that we did a while ago to celebrate Easter. However, because of an urgent family matter, I didn't have the time or mood to blog about it. So here they are, and I hope you find them as fun as we did.
EV is smiling so brightly here, it just makes me smile too as I'm writing this. Why was she so tickled? I meant for her to place little play dough balls on the egg-shaped doughs. Not only did she do that, she went to squish all of them flat on to the 'egg'. Just goes to show that kids don't usually do what you intend them to do. Well, as long as they are having fun, that's most important.
Here you can see her creations more clearly. And since she also liked using the modeling tool to 'cut' the dough', I got her to 'cut' the 'egg' into parts, teaching her the concepts of half and quarter.
Why 'bunny' in inverted commas? Because I don't quite think that the 'bunny' looks like one, though making a bunny was the original intention. So it has the long ears and round body, EV has creatively transformed it into what I think is a robot, complete with two antennas. What do you think it is?
Halfway through the activity, EV decided to make a hammer. Then proceeded to dissect her little robot. Future doctor or veterinarian in the making?
Q-tip Painting
The last activity is extremely simple - just paper plates and Q-tips, or cotton ear buds, are required. Firstly, cut 'eggs' from the paper plates. Give the kid the Q-tip and some paints and off she goes! Yups.. she's chosen her favourite colour blue again.
What play dough or painting activities have you done lately?
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Friday, May 31, 2013
Our family chik-chak time
Chik-chak!!!
We went for our family photoshoot last Friday and had a wonderful time. The kids had fun showing off their picture perfect sides, though after a while, AA got really tired, and the adults had to whip out lots of tricks to get that cheeky smile of his.
The results? Beautiful pictures of our family that we love.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Play Learning Tuesday: Foam Numbers Puppetry
Sometimes, the best play and learning comes when it is impromptu.
'Hello EV, how are you? I'm 5.'
EV quickly got the idea and picked her own numbers.
'Hello 5! Can we play together?'
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What is Play Learning Tuesday?
Play Learning Tuesday is a weekly linky hosted by Toddly Mummy where bloggers are invited to share their child-friendly play, learning and craft activities.
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On a sunny Friday, I was trying to entertain EV and keep her occupied, to prevent her from disturbing the sleeping AA. I didn't have any special activities planned. Spying some foam numbers in the room, I just propped some numbers on my finger and started doing puppetry with them.
EV quickly got the idea and picked her own numbers.
'Hello 5! Can we play together?'
And so little EV's imagination was triggered and she started getting the numbers to 'talk' and 'play' with each other. Besides promoting number recognition, this fun game can also be extended in the following ways:
- Play a counting game. Draw dots on paper or use counters and get the foam numbers to 'find' the correct number of dots or counters.
- Larger numbers can be used to match the child's age and knowledge.
- Teach and match the spelling of each number. For example, teach the word for 6 - six, or match the number 3 to the word three.
- Simple addition and subtraction can be taught using puppetry too.
- Make up own stories using the numbers
This activity is not just about numbers. As the imagination is evoked, creative skills are being developed as well. So too are language, speaking and listening skills, as new stories, roles and situations are being created. EV seemed to be in her own world as she directed her own puppet play. She was communicating with her number puppets so effortlessly and with so much confidence, except for the times when she will ask me to stop taking pictures and join her in her play. It's really amazing to watch her 'working' with her numbers.
We will definitely be doing more puppet play. Socks, paper bags, soft toys, whatever we can find makes a good puppet. Hmm.. perhaps we will do our very own puppet show based on our current favourite story Cat In The Hat Comes Back tonight? That would be a blast!
Have you done any puppetry lately?
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What is Play Learning Tuesday?
Play Learning Tuesday is a weekly linky hosted by Toddly Mummy where bloggers are invited to share their child-friendly play, learning and craft activities.
If you would like to link up and share your posts on Play Learning Tuesday, please read the following guidelines first.
- Please link up any posts featuring a play, learning or craft activity.
- Feel free to link more than one post.
- Please don't link giveaways.
- Please grab the Play Learning Tuesday badge from below and include it at the bottom of the submitted post, or somewhere on your site.
- Thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas on Play Learning Tuesday!
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