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There are many ways to tell a story, not only by reading a book. Many cultures share and tell their stories through painting. The colour, symbols, design and patterns included in a painting will tell you a story about that person and what is important to them.The painting can tell you the story of where a person lives, what animals or food can be found there and who they are
Children often experiment with water. Gather some containers, tubes and funnels and help your child experiment with how the water flows from one container to the next. Together you can explore how much water one container will hold compared to another and how quickly a container will fill up before it flows over the top.
Spring has arrived and it’s time to plant new seedlings.Before you plant the next lot of seedlings do you need to add more soil to the pots? Has the soil gradually disappeared leaving the pot half full?How will you go about filling up the pots? Will you buy bags of soil from the garden centre or will you have a trailer load of soil delivered? If you get a trailer load will it
While you are waiting for the lift to come talk to your child about the number of the floor that you want to travel to.Is it a high number or a low number?Is it a number above the ground floor which means the lift will travel up or is the floor below ground level and so will go down?Talk about how the buttons have symbols on them that will provide directions and instructions.
Treasure hunts can be fun. Hide some sort of treasure - it doesn’t matter what. It could be a small gift or a message with a promise of a special treat, like five extra stories tonight, or a trip to feed the ducks. You will need to write some clues or directions. Write the clues or directions on individual cards. It could be ‘look in the letterbox’ and then in the letterbox it
You can make an obstacle course with your child inside or outside. Work together to discover what you have around home that you can use to make the obstacles. Try and build different challenges that your child can walk on, go up, over, under or through. Make obstacles that your child can balance on. You could use something like a flat piece of wood or a masking tape line. We
Are you wondering what your family can do this weekend or during the holidays? You could visit an art gallery.Before you go to the art gallery talk to your child about the different things you will see.Explain that there are lots of different paintings, sculptures, statues and artworks from many different cultures. The art is grouped in different rooms or galleries and you can
Next time you have a letter to post walk with your child to the postbox. Before you go predict what you might see along the way.Will there be a dog today or will someone be watering their garden?As you walk together talk about the things you notice and describe where you see them. You could count the letterboxes as you go, trying to work out what the number is and then predict
Washing the dog can be a great activity on a hot day. There can be lots of discussion and negotiation as you try and wash your dog without ending up soaked.Let’s call the dog 'Harry'.Harry is a big dog and you will have to work hard to get him wet from head to tail.Before starting, work out a plan about how you will wash Harry and who will do what.Where will you start? What do
Do you wash the dishes in a sink or in the dishwasher? Are there times when you choose to wash the dishes rather than put them in the dishwasher? We need to wash the saucepans as they are too big to fit in the dishwasher. If you don’t have a dishwasher do you wash up after every meal or wait until the end of the day when there is a pile of dishes to do? There are only 2 plates