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June 17th, 2008
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Even though it’s been a couple of days sitting on the side; I finally got around to reading the Sunday papers. After sorting into a pile of ‘to read’ and a pile of recycling, the pile to recycle seems huge- every weekend.
Today before the pile hit the recycling bin we started a project.
The big guy found and cut out all his favourite foods. Stuck them onto paper. This lead to an interesting discussion about food and drink.
He started to find his favourite clothes and that’ll be the next project to add to the large sheet of paper.
Often parts of the body are missing to get a good shot of the clothes so he’ll add legs and feet.
We then plan on moving onto the objects- gardening, patio, houses for sale etc
Eventually we’ll have a collage that we can weave a story together. I’m hoping he’ll tell the story with it.
Before you throw away recycle your weekend paper. Give your kids a chance to use the pages for other things.
Cutting and sticking isn’t just a random activity for toddlers but instead it can be defined and extended by preschoolers and older with a little imagination. Mixing media of magazine, newspaper, construction paper is a fun thing to try especially if you can sit with your kids and draw parts in with them.
He particular liked the freedom to choose what went onto the page and where it went.
Skills that naturally occur:
- Honing their fine motor skills
- giving them choices and letting them share their opinions
- creativity of what materials to use, how to place them on the page
- imagination to link the items into a story
- discrimination- accepting and rejecting objects from the many pages
- Sorting and controlling the environment ( Pile of cut outs? or cut, stick? or plan?)
Whenever planning a collage or large project, I’ve found it best to take bite sized chunks of time and allow the work to develop. They’ll be times when we have to jump in and times when they have a really good idea they need supporting on.
The perfect time for a project like this with summer almost here and all that time..
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June 10th, 2008
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Welcome to the 14th edition of Carnival of Parenting Podcasts
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Send in your favourite podcasts of the fortnight.
- Thesatellitesisters: # Hear about Sheila’s Summer of Love
# Liz reviews the News
# Lab Rats test Stain Removers
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May 27th, 2008
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Welcome to the 13th edition of Carnival of Parenting Podcasts
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Top 10
Send in your favourite podcasts of the fortnight.
- Just one more book -Interview with David Schwartz Our guest on this edition of Just One More Book!! is David Schwartz, author of fifty books including How Much is a Million — which inspired our two daughters to count to five hundred during a walk prior to this interview — and Cybils non-fiction finalist Where in the Wild.
- MommyCast Show #303: Great New Websites! The Boys & Girls Clubs of America and PTA have launched a first-of-its-kind national digital video service program that allows families to access and purchase age-appropriate digital content in a safe and secure online environment.
- Mumcentric Show #13-: Rachael Kilroy is from the award winning www.gohop.ie who are the longest established Irish online-travel company. Listen in as Rachael chats to us about some of the hot destinations and ideas for 2008 as well as giving her tips on travelling with kids and what not to do !
- Natural Moms Podcast #82: Crunchy Chicken, first guest this week is the Crunchy Chicken herself, Deanna Duke. Deanna started a project called Goods 4 Girls that provides cloth menstrual pads to African schoolgirls and Guest host Elizabeth Ashe as she interviews Shazi Visram of HappyBabyFood.com, a company dedicated to providing the highest quality fresh organic food for your baby.
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May 23rd, 2008
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Welcome back to the 4th part in the series of Toddler play activities.
We are big Usborne fans here and we bought this book for car journeys as there are so many pages. We have some smaller versions in the house. This is one we keep in the car. If we’re stuck somewhere one of us will come back to the car to get it. The kids have been known to add it to the bottom of the stroller themselves.
Both kids are fascinated with the pictures with so much going on . Now the Big guy will talk about what he sees to the little guy and they play a version of I Spy together.
Why he likes it?
- Looking at the pictures.
- He can point endlessly at pictures.
- He hears and learns new words.
- He can play with adults, older brother or even by himself.
- He loves to look for objects.
Why we like it?
- Chance to talk about what’s going on in the picture.
- Chance to experience vocabulary in context.
- Each time you look at the picture there seems to be something else to talk about.
- Lovely calming activity and encourages concentration and discrimination skills.
- Open ended activity that is portable.
- Pictures provoke discussions, stories and questions on a wide range of topics.
What are your favourite books for play activities?
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