Creativity – Page 8 – Creative Learning for Young Children

August 22, 2016September 10, 2017 Jumble House cooking, Creativity, Food

Figs!

Yesterday Geirgie and Alfie went picking figs.
They enjoyed eating the rugs fresh from the tree but picked so many that they needed to find a way to keep them. To preserve them.

Maisie suggested cooking them in pear juice and Marsala wine.

Thet decided to do this but wanted to make it a bit different. To experiment.

Georgie really likes walnuts so they added a handful and Alfie likes hot spiced so they added a sprinkle of Peperoncino which is like chilli pepper.

Then into a very big pan went a small wine glass of Marsala wine, an individual small carton of pear juice, a sprinkle of chilli pepper and a small handful of chopped walnuts.

Then the figs were added and everything was simmered for fifteen minutes and left to cool.

Once the Figs had cooled down they bottled them and put them in the fridge.

The Jumbles are going to eat the figs with Mascapone or ice cream.

Delicious!

For more recipes visit our channel and the Cook with Maisie playlist,

Cook with Maisie

August 21, 2016 Jumble House Art, painting, Printmaking, Modelling for young children, Creativity

Colour Wash. Fun with the colour blue.

The Jumbkes use the lake as their inspiration for making a blue picture .

Click the link below for the Challenge.

This week’s Sunday Challenge

The weekly SUNDAY CHALLENGE from Jumble House. Colour wash. Inspiration comes from a lake scene. Suitable for all ages even pre school as the project can be adapted and extended. Adult supervision is always recommended.

The ‘challenge’ this week is for children to adapt the process demonstrated and create something different. The idea behind the Sunday programmes is that ideas are given as a stimulus, we hope that children will not just copy but will experiment using the techniques demonstrated.

The focus of the Challenges can be art and craft, design, design and technology, story writing or games. Whatever the activity the aim is to develop a child’s creative thinking skill.
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Resources: paints by GIOTTO

paper by FABRIANO (Ruvido/rough grain) purchased at MARINO FA MERCATO. MAGIONE

Music: Royalty Free Music from PREMIUM BEAT.COM

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August 18, 2016 Jumble House Creativity, Lesson resourceS, Science

Evaporation with Lizzie Witch

It was a big washing day today at Jumble House and, because we don’t have a garden, that means clothes hung from every window plus a drier in the bathroom.

Lizzie Witch saw this as an excellent opportunity to teach us all about evaporation and steam and condensation.

To watch the programme just click on this link (and please subscribe to our channel):- Evaporation Programme

Lizzie left us with a challenge and hear a a couple more:

1. Water evaporates more quickly when it is warm than when it is cool. Can you think of a way to,prove that this statement is true?

2. Take two identical pieces of cloth. Soak them in water and then squeeze the water out. Place one in a sealed plastic bag and spread the other out on the floor in a sunny place. What do you think will happen by the same time tomorrow?

Check every couple of hours, record what you see and explain the results.

August 14, 2016 Jumble House Challenges, Creativity, Flying

Flying Machines

Part one of the Sunday Challenge programmes on flying machines.

Did you know that the first plane with an engine was a biplane ?

Bi Planes are planes with two wings, one over the other. They have very good uplift but the ‘drag’ is much greater than with the more modern planes so they are much slower. The very first plane with an engine was a BiPlane.

Freddie Jumble is very interested in planes and so is Judi. Her father was in the airforce and later in the Royal Observer Corps.

As a child she learnt how to recognise lots of aeroplanes and later Judi learnt how to fly gliders. ( planes without engines) .

Here she is at the controls.

Watch the video to see how to make your very own model : Flying Machines. Bi Planes

August 11, 2016August 11, 2016 Jumble House Creativity

Science. Colour Explosions with Lizzie Witch

Lizzie demonstrates the scientific concept of diffusion in her unique and persuasive manner.

You just can’t help but understand and learn!

Follow the link below for the programme .

Colour Explosions

August 10, 2016 Jumble House Creativity, Lizzy Witch, Science

Magic? Science? What is Lizzie growing in that jar?

Is it Magic or is it Science?

We never know when Lizzie is around but you can guarantee that something will go wrong and that she will make a lot of mess!

It is also guaranteed that she she will make learning basic scientific concepts very magical for young audiences

AND that this is one series of children’s programmes that adults won’t mind watching too!

Lizzie has a glass jar containing a very weird assortment of food.

Is she going to cook something?

Will she make them disappear ?

Will she say a magic spell and change them into a cake or a frog or ……?

Click on this link to watch the video. Maybe you will find out ! Maybe you won’t ! But if you don’t try you will never know!

Fun Science With Lizzie Witch. Food preservation.

August 8, 2016August 8, 2016 Jumble House Creativity, Education, Festivals, Holidays

What’s Georgie doing?

She is updating her Travel Journal !

Georgie likes to keep a journal of the places she has visited. Its fun to do and great to share with friends.

Every time Georgie goes away on holiday she starts a new journal. Her journal is like a diary. It is a record of where she has been, what she has seen, meals, weather, friends ……. just about anything and everything !

Sometimes Georgie writes in the journal but many of the pages are filled with pictures and things stuck in.

During the day Georgie will collect ‘memories’ and then later stick them into her journal. A memory might be an empty sugar packet from a bar they stopped at for a drink. Or a receipt from a train ride or restaurant or entrance to a zoo or pleasure park. Maybe an advertisement from a festival or the business card from a hotel. A sweet wrapper, a postcard, a shell from the beach.

Georgie is never bored! On a journey or sightseeing trip she is always looking for something to write about or a ‘memory’ to stick into in her journal. She takes photographs too so she can add these when she gets back home.

Her journal is very useful if they go to the same place another time because it contains useful information like how long it took to get there and the restaurants they liked or didn’t like and the festivals and weather and the contact details of friends they made.

At the moment Georgie is at home but it’s the summer holidays and so she is keeping a journal of what she has done each day. Yesterday was the last day of her village festa so this morning she is sticking in the little poster to remind her and jotting down what she ate and the people she saw and the funny things that happened.

August 7, 2016 Jumble House celebrations, Creativity, entertainment, Families, Festivals, Fun

Festa dei Barbari

Today was the last day of our annual festa in Castel Rigone. Festa dei Barbari.

We enjoy all the festivals but this is our favourite. It’s not just because Jumble House is in Castel Rigone. It’s because it is so much FUN especially on the Sunday when the events start at 5’o clock.

For four days there is a market which winds its way through the quaint little streets and every evening feasting in the piazza with music, jousting and entertainment. There’s lots of great things to buy but also you can have a go at archery and see how weapons were made.

On the last day (always the first Sunday in August) there is this great costume parade through the village, right past Jumble House! This is followed by the ‘palio’ or challenge which does change. Then followers the feasting, really weird music, fun jousting and fire-eaters and lots of other things. We really enjoy the food and it’s always fun watching the wine being pumped out of these things that look like giant weed killers!

Why do we have this festival? Well, a very long time ago the village was attacked by the barbarians (the Ostogoths). The lieutenant was called Riggo. That is where the name of the village come from. The festa is a re-enactment of the barbarian invasion and it’s great fun!

We hope you will enjoy this video of the procession: Festa dei Barbari. Castel Rigone.