This is a great activity for children from 9 months and up, and can be used in a variety of ways. We’d love to see your pictures of your children trying these, so please send them to us?
Any polystyrene tray can be used for these activities, including takeaway containers, but please make sure they are well washed before use.
For your interest, the last picture gives you a description of one of the skills that you are helping your child to develop through this play, so that you can see how you are helping with your child’s development as well as bonding with your child.
A great game for children (from 2 and a half years) and adults! Have a family competition, with the older kids having to stand further back from the base.
You can also make a few bases and write a numeral on each. Your child has to try to get the correct number of rings on each one. For the younger children, draw the correct number of dots on the back, so that if they can’t remember what the numeral is, then they can count the dots.
For your interest, the last picture gives you a description of one of the skills that you are helping your child to develop through this play, so that you can see how you are helping with your child’s development as well as bonding with your child.
This activity is suitable for children from age 3, and can be adapted in many ways. Always remember to keep it playful and fun.
For your interest, the last picture gives you a description of one of the skills that you are helping your child to develop through this play, so that you can see how you are helping with your child’s development as well as bonding with your child.
This is an awesome game to play with children (from 3 years) and adults!
For your interest, the last picture will give you a description of one of the skills that you are helping your child to develop through this play, so that you can see how you are helping with your child’s development as well as bonding with your child.
Nikki Bush’s enthusiastic and enlightening presentation on how to parent on the run was extremely well received at our Talking Parenting fundraiser last night. There are now a lot more families that will be building their own traditions, making greater connections, and making their children feel seen, heard and important. Thank you to our sponsors for their contributions, especially Cordwalles Preparatory School and their amazing staff.
Did you know that babies can see colour as well as adults from around the age of 6 months? They can see it, but don’t understand that colour is a quality of an item (ie something that describes that item). So sometimes we will give the child a lid like the little girl is holding and tell her that it is a lid, another time we tell her it is plastic, another time we tell her it is round, another time we tell her it is small, another time we tell her it is red, another time we tell her it is hard…and so when we say, “What colour is this?” the child often just says the first colour name that pops into her head! To help children understand this, try to always say the quality and the name of the item eg “This is a red lid” or “This is a round lid”.
The ability to match colours comes before the ability to name colours, so matching activities are important from around the age of 2. The activity shown here is made from egg tray strips, blobs of colour from magazines, and cold drink lids. The teacher has asked the children to find which house each lid lives in. She names the colours as the child is picking them up and mentions words like “matching” and “the same colour”. Look at how she is also developing her pincer grasp at the same time.
