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

leave rubbing

the twins loved the texture and scruching them under the paper with older children you can use more leaves and different shapes i kept it simple things like simple maths counting the leaves the shape macthing which ones have the same shape or are similer big small as well as colours looking at the different shades from goldern to yellow orange to broun and green

dhul hijjah map

we made a map explaning dhul hijjah their are cards around it saying what actions are done and on what day we also got out the kaba we made in ramadan and we made with kichen rolls pritend people doing hajj i dont draw any faces on them

this is safiyyah and zakariya playing with them

black muslim history month

Asalaam u alaikum so we made a start on black Muslim history month we have made a display so far we did finger painting the African map and we done a collage of African fabric and we also made a picture of how we thought African muslims may dress we go on a web site called freecycle were people offer for free the things they no longer need i asked for some African material which one lady was happy to give me so so far what have we covered
geography maps
role play dressing up
colours with the different colours of the fabric
language we talked about what African muslims might wear
recycling
we were also lucky enough to have a great neighbour who gave us over 200 old post cards which we are using as well we found some from africa which we used in the display