world book day

children dress up as charaters from books the twins are dressed up as pirates from the story tresure island some parents buy new costumes but i cant afford to do that so i used the twisn old clothes and paper and glue and this is what we came up with

mini snow men

my son has had a very bad chest infection so i didnt want to take them out in the cold to play with the snow but i didnt want them to miss out so i feeled a dish with snow and let them play inside we made mini snow people a hijabie snow women and a snow man with a pink hat the kids loved it and atleast they got to play with some snow inside

we are working on water

i made them a chart which is a glass of water  its got numbers one to 8 and each time they have a glass of water you pull the water down which is a blue bit of paper you make a slit in the white card and then cut a blue bit of paper to fit the hole use blue tack to hr to the top of the white card and then every time you pull it down just push the blue tack part back to hold it up.

we  also made a tap and i cut out some water drops the twins coloured in blue i drawed some simple pictures on which the twins recognise washing machine, washing up, wudu, bath,drinking water,cooking the things we use water for
we also used a book which a lovely sister recommended to us called a drop of mercy a Islamic view on the water cylce for kids it also comes with a poster the water cylce which you can see in my uploaded pictures

things you can do with a paper dolily

they dont always have to be snow flakes we used paint,pastals,gliter older children could use felt tip pens and carefuly colour inside each shape either way the twins enjoyed they did need help but they still loved the out come

Noahs ark

this is Noahs ark which me and the twins made from old boxs the twins have played with it so its a bit battered now but they enjoyed making and playing with it its good some times to make props to use when telling a story keeps the little ones interested i find it works better they have things to do while the story in being told better than them just sitting there getting bored

learning about the post

we are learning about the post i was lucky enough to find in a charity shop packets of used stamps which i got i have used them for free sticking with the twins my neighbour gave a us a load of old post cards a while back which we also used

with older children you could do a visit to the main post office maybe phone them and ask if they do a tour to show kids who the post is processed and sent a trip to the post office is another way you could get the kids to write their own letters let them buy the stamps and then take them to a mail/post box  if you wanted to could send the letter to a family member of friend or even back to your own address talk about your address talk about sending letter abroad and how they get a air mail sticker and travel via aeroplane they could even make their own post cards

printing with leaves

we used 2 different leaves and green paint the twins got very messy thats why i didnt put good clothes on them there was green paint every where but they loved it