As I have been reading more blogs from around the world about home educating, learning through play, and early education, the same phrase keeps cropping up – an ‘invitation to play’. Despite being a Foundation Stage Teacher (age 3-5) this …
Category Archives: Arts and crafts
Jubilations
Posted by Ailsa on 7 June, 2012
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This weekend we were in Preston to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with a good old British tea party in the rain! After the beautiful weather last week, we were all looking forward to gathering in the garden for a …
Thank you cards
Posted by Ailsa on 27 May, 2012
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Salt dough is for life, not just for Christmas!
Posted by Ailsa on 20 May, 2012
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As the title suggests, we did make salt dough at Christmas, and it went so well I was determined to do it again soon. Five months on we got around to it, oops! Annabelle has been really enjoying using shaped …
Rainbow Pasta
Posted by Ailsa on 20 May, 2012
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Firstly, I can’t take any credit for this activity at all! I saw it on Happy Hooligans, and thought ‘yes, we need to try this!’ So this was how we spent a rainy Wednesday morning last week… We assembled our …
