Showing posts with label Playgroups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Playgroups. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Playgroup: Self Together With Others

This yesteryear calendar week at playgroup nosotros continued talking nearly the concept of self, together with farther visited the persuasion of self inwards reference to others. H5N1 slap-up means to assist kids visualize this is a visual comparing of size, which helps amongst cognitive development.

Here's how nosotros demonstrated it:

The flush of Goldilocks together with the Three Bears has many comparisons of size. The papa bear, mama bear, together with babe behave are all varying heights together with sizes, together with thence are their belongings! We handed out the iii pictures of the bears (pictured above) together with had the children determine which 1 was the papa bear, mama bear, together with babe bear. We did that at each purpose including iii dissimilar sized objects, shout for which belonged to who every time. The children had to occupation each other's papers every bit references inwards monastic tell to know which exceptional belonged to who!

We continued to exhibit comparisons of size yesteryear mensuration each of the children. First nosotros had them gauge who was tallest, together with thence nosotros measured. They loved having a discover that represented their height!

For our treat, nosotros had the children determine betwixt 2 dissimilar shaped fruit scroll up. We asked them if they wanted the long, skinny kind, or the short, foursquare ones. It may accept influenced the kids that nosotros had talked nearly meridian earlier, because they all chose the tall version!

We connected this lesson to our final lesson yesteryear standing inwards 2 lines together with kicking this colored ball dorsum together with forth, maxim our favorite color on the ball when nosotros kicked it. We talked nearly how favorites tin live dissimilar merely every bit all of us expect dissimilar from each other. It was a skillful run a jeopardy for kids to stretch their muscles, acquire some wiggles out, together with relish some physical activity. Children tin larn at a immature historic catamenia that an active lifestyle tin live fun!


For our principal activity, nosotros traced all the kids on the non-pattern side of wrapping paper. They persuasion it was the greatest affair ever, together with enjoyed lying on the newspaper to live traced, every bit good every bit seeing the finished product. They used their fine motor skills to decorate 'themselves' amongst crayons together with markers.

 The empty wrapping newspaper rolls also made for a fun activity!

 The kids loved the persuasion of a fruit scroll upwardly that was nearly every bit tall every bit them!

 And it turns out long fruit scroll ups are fun to twirl. Who knew!

The kids had a fun fourth dimension learning nearly sizes together with differences, every bit good every bit getting upwardly together with existence active. The boys were anxious to grow upwardly big together with tall similar their daddy's, together with it was a skillful run a jeopardy to tell them nearly the importance of a salubrious lifestyle. Parents who model these behaviors for their immature kids tin assist them accommodate a lasting active lifestyle that volition serve them good inwards an increasingly sedentary society.

These activities tin easily live done at abode without much planning! Put that leftover Christmas wrapping newspaper to skillful use, acquire the mensuration record out of the tool box, impress some dissimilar sized bears for telling the flush of Goldilocks, together with detect a colored ball or a edible bean pocketbook lying unopen to the house. The solely affair you lot may non accept is the fruit scroll ups!

Thanks for stopping by! Our side yesteryear side playgroup volition focus on self together with family!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

For Those Who Wanted To Bring Together The Playgroup Inward Provo On Fridays

Springville Playgroup



For those who wanted to bring together the playgroup inwards Provo on Fridays, exactly cannot arrive for any reasons, at that topographic point is an opened play grouping inwards Springville.
 

When?: Every Thursdays from 10am-11am
Where?:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 860 East 200 North, Springville, UT 84663

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Songs, even out time, crafts together with activities to assistance children prepare diverseness of skills volition survive provided at the playgroups. The Springville playgroup volition survive held 3-4 times a month, spell i time a month, the parents together with children volition bring a plain trip to other educational sites such every bit the Springville Museum of Art.


If yous would similar to know to a greater extent than data delight e-mail Donna Hydrick at donnahydrick@gmail.com
  
We promise that yous tin sack join!
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Playgroup: Learning The Concept Of Self


We started out 2012 amongst a playgroup activeness nearly the concept of self. We were having in addition to hence much fun at our activeness that nosotros forgot to accept pictures!

First nosotros talked nearly how people are similar—we all induce got ii eyes, ii ears, 1 mouth, in addition to ii legs—but how nosotros are all different, too. 

To demonstrate this, nosotros placed pictures of 4 dissimilar types of fruits on the floor, in addition to had everyone stand upwards yesteryear their favorite.























The kids could meet that spell nosotros all liked fruit, nosotros each induce got dissimilar favorites!

For our craft, nosotros used some handouts printed from Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 to Z Teacher Stuff's gratis printables.

We talked nearly dissimilar colors of eyes (Page 2 of the All About Me Book), which includes basic pic of facial features, in addition to had them gum on the appropriate oculus color. 




We gave them Dulce de Leche Cheerios for chocolate-brown eyes in addition to Fruit Loops for blueish in addition to dark-green eyes.












We also gave them a handout to gum pictures of their favorite foods onto (Page 12). The kids could meet that everyone enjoyed food, in addition to that fifty-fifty if they didn’t desire to include a pic inward their collage, somebody else may savour that detail dish.

We showed them a coloring page nearly favorite colors (Page 8), in addition to had each kid select a colored streamer in addition to moving ridge it around.

We ended amongst a snack of the delicious fruits from our starting fourth dimension activeness nearly favorites.


What are the kid developmental aspects of this playgroup? All of these activities help children prepare their social in addition to emotional skills yesteryear thinking nearly themselves in addition to those unopen to them. The children also used their fine motor skills yesteryear picking upwards the cheerios in addition to gluing them to the paper. Of course of education dancing amongst the color strips help prepare all areas in addition to produced giggles in addition to smiles, every bit good every bit demonstrated the fun of beingness active. Go ahead, innovate your kid to the concept of self this week!

Thanks for stopping by!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Play Group: Fun As Well As Slow At-Home Thanksgiving Crafts!

Did somebody tell Thanksgiving?! This calendar week was a smaller grouping at Playgroup due to the Holiday Season, but nosotros nevertheless had fun anyway! 

We made approximately fun turkey's out a few basic abode supplies:

*Toilet Paper Roll
*Construction Paper
*Glue
*Paper Plate (cut inwards half)
*Colorful feathers (if available)
Trace your child's manus on unlike colors as well as hence cutting them out...
get-go gluing on the hands as well as feathers on to the plate...
lastly mucilage your john newspaper ringlet as well as draw/glue eyes, invoice as well as wattle (that's what it's called!) 
That's it, slowly as well as fun for the kids!
Also dandy for their sensory motor development!

For snacks nosotros had approximately cute turkeys as well as pilgrim hats!
I attempted to role candy corn for the invoice on this one. =)

All yous involve for this snack is...
Reeses miniatures, oreos, candy corn as well as approximately frosting (this is orange-dyed buttercream). You also powerfulness desire a plastic baggy or if yous accept tips for decorating alongside frosting yous tin move role those too.
All yous produce is role the frosting every bit a mucilage as well as pose together your yummy treats. For the pilgrim hats I chose to teach out the wrapping on the Reese's to fit the color meliorate alongside the cookie. Explore as well as enjoy!
All these ideas are adapted from approximately form of arts and crafts I constitute but searching on Google, the network is a dandy tool! 
Until side past times side time!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Playgroup: Choose A Piffling Chicka Chicka Nail Boom To Your Home!

Hello! Faithful readers! Another calendar week has passed as well as nosotros bring had a wonderful fourth dimension at play group. This calendar week nosotros read almost the alphabet inwards "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom," as well as then created our real ain kokosnoot trees. We as well as then topped it off alongside a delicious Chicka Boom snack! See below for the recipe!
 For the Craft:
What You'll Need:
-Construction Paper
-Foam Alphabet Letters (the ones nosotros had were stickers--which was great!)
-Glue

What You'll Do:
1) Since the kids inwards play grouping are a lilliputian younger, I pre-cut the trunks as well as leaves of the kokosnoot tree (cutting coconuts could hold out helpful too!)
2) Children guide what color newspaper they'd similar equally their background, as well as then gum the parts of the tree together.
3) Once the tree is formed, stick on (or glue) the letters on, off, unopen to the tree for a fun await simply similar the book!
Many of the moms helped their kid while their cite equally well!
Look how groovy they all look!!
After nosotros all CLEANED UP, nosotros had our Delicious as well as Healthy Snack:
Here's what you'll need:
-Graham crackers
-Peanut Butter
-Apple Slices
-Raisins
-Colorful Mini Marshmallows

Here's what yous do:
1) Using the peanut butter equally glue, house the graham crackers (cracked inwards one-half the long way) as well as apples onto a place.
2) Place a cluster of raisins on the remaining peanut butter pile
3) Sprinkle a few colorful marshmallows on the plate to await similar the letters on the tree
4) Enjoy!
 What a fun means to teach your children to swallow their fruits!! The kids LOVED them!
**There are many different renditions of this snack; if yous simply Google: "chicka chicka nail boom snack" as well as become to Images, yous tin teach some groovy ideas alongside to a greater extent than good for yous ingredients!**
 Until adjacent week! 

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Play Grouping Craft: Finger Painting

This calendar week inwards our play grouping nosotros talked nearly how dissimilar things (like clouds or spilt milk) could expect similar shapes or animals... We together with then painted amongst around finger paint, together with tried to come across what the pigment looked like!! This activeness is dandy for children to last "hands-on" together with railroad train their cognitive together with sensorimotor skills!
Here are around fun pictures from our activity, looks similar our moms had fun too!
"Look what I made!"
What create those pictures expect similar to you? a tree? butterfly? fish? Use your imagination together with encourage your kid to create the same. It's non exclusively fun, merely developmentally appropriate! We had a dandy fourth dimension together this week, promise to come across yous in 1 lawsuit again adjacent calendar week amongst more!

Playgroup: Self Together With Others

This yesteryear calendar week at playgroup nosotros continued talking nearly the concept of self, together with farther visited the pers...