Jumble House celebrations, Fun Learning for Young Children, Halloween

Make a spooky ghost.

This IS so easy! Takes less than ten mins and is SO effective! The easiest prop I have ever made.

All you need is a large piece of white fabric. An old sheet is perfect. A football and a toilet brush! Yeah! A toilet brush. New of course. I was trying to find something which was wide enough to support the head with just a wiggle but had a handle to hold and a toilet brush is just perfect!

Watch the video to see.

Make a

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There’s lots more Halloween fun to come plus great learning for little ones.

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Spooky

It’s fun making videos especially spooky ones and even more fun making your own sound effects.

It’s so easy to buy costumes and props and soundtracks and even laser shows to project onto walls and buildings. But to support and encourage a child to create their own is so rewarding. There are some ideas for sounds effects in this video but we need some more. What can we use for a clock striking midnight? Or a witches cackle? The clap of thunder?

Have fun. We’ll be back with a spooky ghost in a day or two.

Spooky Sounds.

Jumble House Fun Learning for Young Children

Let’s Rub!

Kids love rubbing. It’s a great family activity because Rubbings can be simple or sophisticated depending on age and experience.

Leaves are a great starter activity and the Rubbings produced can be used in so many ways.

Rubbing is a great activity to improve hand-eye coordination and strengthens little hand muscles thus improving fine motor skills.

Jumble House Fun Learning for Young Children, Recipes

Fruits of the Forest Dessert

Warning: this contains alcohol.

A quick, easy and delicious fruity dessert.

Click on this link for the recipe: Fruits of the Forest Dessert Recipe and instructions.

Jumble House Fun Learning for Young Children

Bring back Board Games!

I make simple board games like this to reinforce the learning of vocabulary!counting and number recognition when I’m teaching English as a second language.

They are also a fun and inexpensive way to support the learning of preschool children. The topics are endless, Colours, animals, Time, parts of the body etc. Board games teach counting, number recognition in addition to social skills such as turn taking and FairPlay. Unfortunately they have gone out of fashion which is a shame because kids really love them especially if they have been involved in the making.

Jumble House Autumn, Crafts for kids, Fun Learning for Young Children, Learning through Play, nature

Autumn Garden

Kids love gardens and one like this is so fun to make and takes virtually no maintenance apart from watering. They will really enjoy making new items for the garden and changing the theme as the seasons change.

It is a very good way of teaching about plants and germination and seasons plus they will hopefully develop a sense of responsibility caring for their little garden.

We don’t have a garden so I created this on a patch of tarmac at the bottom of the steps.

I simply laid a sheet of plastic over the tarmac raised up around the borders on bricks. This made a hollow in the centre which I filled with compost.

I planted a mixture of real and artificial plants . Some planted directly into the compost. Others in small plant pots.

The garden was made in the spring and has survived high winds, rain, drought and temps. of 40+

Last week I changed the theme to Autumn by adding lots of fir cones, dry leaves and little Veggie characters.

Jumble House celebrations, Fun Learning for Young Children, Halloween

Halloween Fun and Crafts

There’s no time like the present to start preparing for Halloween!

The shops are already bulging at the seams with, often overpriced, costumes and decorations. So why not make your own! It’s much cheaper and much more fun!

I don’t like the commercialism but I do love the build up to Halloween because i love making witches and ghouls and lamps and spiders and ….. there are so many great projects linked to this theme!

We have always held Halloween Parties but not the ‘Trick or Treating’ kind. Just good harmless fun!

Games like ‘Bob Apple’ , spooky music and spooky stories and themed food. We always include a fun craft activity which is usually to make an item for the ‘party bag’ like a tiny Ghost or Witch or Spider made from CHUPPA CHUPS lollies! These take only about ten minutes to make and Kids L O V É them!

Whether you love Halloween or hate it this Festival presents a great opportunity for introducing lots of fun crafts to your children. Have a look at the Halloween Playlist on my channel. Some of the videos are presented by my ‘Jumbles’ puppets

to encourage young children to ‘have a go’ and be creative! They will get so much more satisfaction and enjoyment out of making the decorations and props than from buying them AND save you lots of money.

LINK TO HALLOWEEN CRAFTS PLAYLIST

Jumble House crafts, Crafts for kids, Fun Learning for Young Children, Halloween

Make a Fun Spider Decoration

Here’s a fun activity for families. Please note that the finished ‘Spider’ does contain small parts and so is not suitable for small children.

This spider can be dangled from a thread or used as a magnet!! It is incredibly resilient . I know that because I still have one hung outside from last year’s Halloween!

It’s quick, easy, cheap and fun to make. Kids love them and I have groups of 6 and 7 year olds making them easily by just watching me or this video. A great idea for a Halloween Party activity.

Please remember that Jumble Fun does advise adult supervision for all its activities..