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December 21st, 2007
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Just passing on this fun activity we’ve been doing this Christmas season.
My boys love to move things about and make so we decided to make a nativity scene out of wooden blocks. I first saw the idea at my local MOPs presentation. The speaker had a set her grandchildren use. She left us with measurements and pictures so it was really easy to get going with this project. I modified her ideas here. 
- Find a nice person at Home depot: Cut 8″ 2×4 into the following lengths
Mary 7″
Joseph 8 1/2 ”
Shepherd 8 1/2 ” each
3 wisemen 8 1/2 ” each
Baby Jesus 5″
2 sheep 4″ each.
- Colour the characters and cut out.
- Apply the Mod podge glue front and back
- Fix the picture to the block
So far we’ve completed Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus the 3 wise men and a shepherd…..over the past few weeks. We have a few more to complete. The boys reenact the nativity scene their way by the fireplace.
It makes a nice compliment to the advent story we do each night.
Something unique that they both made when they were 4 and 2…..something we’ll use each year. I’ve always wanted a nativity scene but held off as all the ones I wanted the kids would want to touch and possibly break. This is the perfect compromise. They get to move it about and we get a special nativity scene just right for this “touching age” .
Merry Christmas.
See you in the New Year.
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Taryn won the sensory playtime contest.
Congratulations
Taryn check your email……
Thanks everyone for participating and sharing your sensory play ideas. It was great to read each comment and blog entry.
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December 17th, 2007
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Welcome to the 3rd edition of Carnival of Parenting Podcasts
It’s a place to share and find some new parenting podcasts from the podcaster and recommendations from those who listen to podcasts.
Listen
P Garza presents MomTalk segment by Littlebytesnews.com posted at Littlebytesnews.com.
Andrea presents fishy-water-coloured-memories-when-i-was-a-little-girl/ posted at JustOneMoreBook.com saying, ” A Book Chat about children’s book “When-I-Was-A-Little-Girl”
Top 8
Send in your favourite podcasts of the fortnight.
- Womens hour news and politics Under 5s curriculum 12 12 2007 Via iTunes
That concludes this third edition.
Send in your recommendations to be included in the top 10 favourite podcasts of the week fortnight.
What’s your favourite parenting podcast?
Send in your favourite one. Podcasters submit your favourite shows.
For more information see the introductory post.
If you like what you hear don’t forget to tell them about it. Subscribe to their podcast.
Next edition: January 14
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Sensory playtime contest
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Sunday 16th December 2007: This contest is now closed. Winner will be chosen this week. Winner announced on Friday. Thanks
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So now you’ve read the articles and you’ve got all these ideas about Sensory play to do with your toddler and preschooler right?
Sensory play is one of those topics many parents know about but don’t do much about past the baby stage. I hope these articles have shown you that Sensory play is a lot of fun and a great learning and sharing opportunity that’s easy to do at home with your child under 5.
With that in mind , here is my first contest.
What you’ll win
Sensory garden dome
Easy-to-grow seeds and a self-contained terrarium let kids grow their own indoor garden…filled with plants that explore the 5 senses! The plastic dome comes with soil, labels for each plant and more…plus 5 exotic varieties of seeds, including herbs for taste, aloe for touch, eucalyptus for smell, a polka dot plant for sight and a rustling cabbage palm for sound! 9″ wide.
How to enter the contest?
- Read the 6 sensory play articles by Elaine Lambe. See related posts at the bottom of this post for direct links.
- What’s your favourite sensory play activity for children under 5?
- Write the answer in the comments below for one entry.
- Write a blog post and trackback to this post or tell me where to look for two entries.
- Subscribe via Feedburner. Never miss another blog entry, for one entry
- US Daily and weekly subscribers to the Play activities email before the date and time of this post get two automatic entries.
Rules
Maximum of 6 possible entries available per person.
Collected entries will be collated and then picked by the big guy. Probably via his famous throw it up in the air method and try and catch a falling entry.
Contest open to US residents only and/or those with a valid US address for shipping. ( Yes to APO addresses)
Deadline is 10pm MST December 16th 2007
Entrants must use a valid email address when writing a comment, as this is the one I’ll use to contact you about your shipping address and to let you know you’ve won! No reply within 5 days and I’ll pick a new winner.
Please do not leave your email address in the main body of the comment. Don’t want you getting spammed now. Only I can see the email address.
Prize is new and unused. No cash alternative. Winner gets it shipped to them.
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