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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.
Alfie shares the secret of his fir-cone weather station and Georgie shows you how to make this super cool Lizzie Witch Lamp.
The Lizzie Witch Lamp
This is SO much fun to make. Quick, cheap and easy.
Don’t blow up the balloon too much if you are making it for the table but a large balloon is great for outside.
The instructions are on video. Click on the link below:
The video showing how to make a Lizzie Witch Lamp
Another fun craft for Halloween.
These spiders are quick and easy to make and are great for decoration and for giving to children at the end of a Halloween party.
They are a bit bottom heavy so don’t hang well but look great on a web!
I made the web below from a hoop . You could spray the hoop silver or wrap it in fabric or crepe paper before making the web but I didn’t bother because it won’t be noticeable by the time I’ve filled it with spiders!
Do secure with a dab of glue, the points where the wool wraps round the diagonals otherwise your web will very quickly deteriorate! I need to do this with mine before I put any more spiders on!
What do you need?
Very little! Each spider uses four pipe cleaners, two eyes and a Chupa Chups lolly. That’s all.
It’s so easy that’s there’s really no need for instructions. The only thing you need to remember is to lie all four pipe cleaners together side by side and wrap then round the lolly stick together tightly. If you try to do it one at a time it’s fiddly and you will probably get in a mess! You can use a blob of glue to secure. The eyes are stuck on with glue too. It is possible to cut the sticks a little shorter if you feel they protrude too much.
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.
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.
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.
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
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..
English people will fully understand why I chose a location for these stories called, ‘FIVE A DAY HILL’ ! For others I need to explain that the UK government enjoys giving out ‘useful‘ (?) information on nutrition. After a year or so it becomes redundant as they deliver new and often conflicting advice! A few years ago we were told that we should eat five portions of fruit and veg. every day. So, now you can see why the fruit and veg. characters in these short stories live on Five a day Hill!!
This story and the other four in the series were written during a series of story writing workshops for children. The idea behind these workshops was to help and encourage children to make up and present their own stories. For that reason I used only resources, technology and techniques which I knew were available in most homes and that a six or seven year old was capable of manipulating.
The storyline in Pedro Pear is kept simple. The illustrations are in ordinary pencil crayon and I used the app ‘Book Creator’ to publish as a narrated story and also as a PDF. I really do recommend this app. Children of six and seven with initial support will master it easily and I think having the app will motivate even the most reluctant writer to ‘have a go’!
Click on the link here for the story: NARRATED STORY OF PEDRO PEAR
It’s FUN learning at Jumble House so come on in! (The link below will take you to the programme)
Thematic Preschool Learning. Short programmes (typically around 6/7 minutes) for 3 to 5 year olds. Phonics, Number, Art and Science connected to a central topic.
The programmes are presented by Lizzie Witch and friends!
Designed as a ‘ Watch with,Mum, Dad, Auntie, each programme suggests follow-up activities.
The introduction to each programme is the same encouraging interaction and learning of rhyme and numbers to 10.
BALLOONS. It’s fun learning at Jumble House
Today the theme is balloons
The letter is: Pp
The number is: 3
The colour is green .
And the narrated story is all about PEDRO PEAR and the folk who live on FIVE A DAY HILL.
Creative Learning for Young Children 