Creative Ideas for Children's Activities and Learning at Home
‘chatter matters’™ week
‘chatter matters’™ week
7
7
th
th
– 11
– 11
th
th
March 2016
March 2016
‘chatter matters’™
week ideas
Muddy Monday
•
Muddy nature walk – include parents
•
Muddy handprints
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Plant a seed
•
Make labels for plants
•
Build a mud kitchen
•
Build a bug farm
•
Growing seeds such as beans in plastic bottles
•
Visit an allotment
•
Plant a herb garden – lots of sensory opportunities
•
Mini gardens made on a paper plate or something
similar.
•
Linking in with the Woodland Trust
•
Songs and rhymes about plants and flowers,
growing, sunshine and rain
Turn it off Tuesday
•
How about a screen-free day?
•
Skipping and clapping games – how we used
to play!
•
Card matching games – use new technology to
make a traditional matching game
•
Grow some bugs: e.g. ladybirds or butterflies
•
Guide dog visits to setting
•
Pets as Therapy
•
Nature walk – include parents
•
Library session – visit the library or have the
library visit the setting
•
Traditional tales: giant magic beans (Jack and
the Beanstalk) pulling up a giant turnip (The
Giant Turnip) etc.
Wet Weather/Welly Wednesday
•
Go for a welly walk
•
Fill a tough tray with mud and use small world
people to make footprints
•
Make weather pictures with paint, crayons
and cotton wool
•
Grow runner beans or another seed in a small
clear plastic bag (put a wet jiffy in the bag
with seed and place against the window).
Watch the seed grow... Something that
children can take home an put against their
window at home.
•
Park trip
Thank you or Thinking Thursday
•
Make a thank you card for parents using the
printable on the
‘time to talk’™
website – add a
handprint or a photograph
•
Thinking Thursday for reflection
•
Make a communication tree pyramid for your
wall, or make it 3D – add ‘words of the week’ or
‘first words’ as leaves, or add clear words as
apples
•
Pebble painting to create story pebbles or the
creation of a fairy garden or minibeast motel
using plants and shrubs, twigs, stones, etc from
their outdoor environment
•
Create your own talking tub/treasure basket,
collecting natural items
Friends, Family, Food, Fruit, Flowers
Fun Friday
•
A celebration!
•
Hold a fruit tea party – could you try
some new fruits?
•
Food from each child’s culture?
•
Invite families in to an activity
•
Visit the garden centre
•
Craft activity – make some flowers
•
Make a collage together – involve all the
children with different materials
•
‘chatter matters’™
celebration event!
the pyramid – as a tree!
roots- attachment & social interaction
roots- attachment & social interaction
trunk – attention & listening
trunk – attention & listening
branches – understanding
branches – understanding
leaves - talking
leaves - talking
fruit – clear speech
fruit – clear speech
Explore a week's worth of engaging activities for children, including mud kitchen creations, screen-free days, nature walks, planting seeds, bug farms, and more. Embrace hands-on learning and fun experiences while connecting with nature and sparking creativity.
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chatter matters 7th 11thMarch 2016 week
chatter matters week ideas Theme Ideas for your setting Resources At home Muddy Monday! Make a mud kitchen Muddy handprints Old kitchen utensils Mud! Play with safe kitchen utensils stir and tip some dried pasta shapes Turn it off Tuesday Screen-free day Skipping and clapping games, simple card matching games People, not gadgets! A traditional game Switch off hour what else can you play? Watery Wednesday Welly walk Build a water chute Wellies Plastic bottles, bowls and tubes Play with some different plastic jugs, cups and scoops at bath time Thank you Thursday Make a thank you card thank you for helping me learn to chat! Printable template on website Try one of the nature ideas from the chatter matters squirrels! Flowers on Friday or Fruit on Friday Make a flower picture or collage Try some new food/fruits Tissue paper/fabric scraps Unusual fruits A walk around the shops to look at all the fruit and vegetables.
Muddy Monday Muddy nature walk include parents Muddy handprints Plant a seed Make labels for plants Build a mud kitchen Build a bug farm Growing seeds such as beans in plastic bottles Visit an allotment Plant a herb garden lots of sensory opportunities Mini gardens made on a paper plate or something similar. Linking in with the Woodland Trust Songs and rhymes about plants and flowers, growing, sunshine and rain
Turn it off Tuesday How about a screen-free day? Skipping and clapping games how we used to play! Card matching games use new technology to make a traditional matching game Grow some bugs: e.g. ladybirds or butterflies Guide dog visits to setting Pets as Therapy Nature walk include parents Library session visit the library or have the library visit the setting Traditional tales: giant magic beans (Jack and the Beanstalk) pulling up a giant turnip (The Giant Turnip) etc.
Wet Weather/Welly Wednesday Go for a welly walk Fill a tough tray with mud and use small world people to make footprints Make weather pictures with paint, crayons and cotton wool Grow runner beans or another seed in a small clear plastic bag (put a wet jiffy in the bag with seed and place against the window). Watch the seed grow... Something that children can take home an put against their window at home. Park trip
Thank you or Thinking Thursday Make a thank you card for parents using the printable on the time to talk handprint or a photograph Thinking Thursday for reflection Make a communication tree pyramid for your wall, or make it 3D add words of the week or first words as leaves, or add clear words as apples Pebble painting to create story pebbles or the creation of a fairy garden or minibeast motel using plants and shrubs, twigs, stones, etc from their outdoor environment Create your own talking tub/treasure basket, collecting natural items website add a
Friends, Family, Food, Fruit, Flowers Fun Friday A celebration! Hold a fruit tea party could you try some new fruits? Food from each child s culture? Invite families in to an activity Visit the garden centre Craft activity make some flowers Make a collage together involve all the children with different materials chatter matters celebration event!
the pyramid as a tree! fruit clear speech leaves - talking branches understanding trunk attention & listening roots- attachment & social interaction
