It’s been a while since I posted about my dear class.
Honestly, they are a wonderful bunch!
Trouble-free? I didn’t say that, but if that were the case, it would be boring!
Take today, for instance. We usually put a little activity out for the kids to ‘fiddle’ with, when they arrive. This morning I had stickle bricks out (remember them?) and when the children have created things, we always ask them to tell us what they made. Usually, they are just towers of blocks, and the child will tell you it’s a car/house/rocket/mummy. But their imagination and creativity is growing, and we are getting recognisable objects… sometimes…
Check out this wonderful piece…
It’s a Dog-Rocket, of course! What did you think it was?
And in other news, we have had a winter fuelled week, making ‘icicles’ and ‘snowmen’, and talking about the weather.
It’s a crying shame that these children are not old enough to have actually seen snow here in the UK, being only 3-4 years old. So I did a bit of research on good old Pinterest, and found out how to make realistic play snow, that was even cold to the touch, and mouldable too!
Bicarb of soda (Baking soda for you Americans!) and white hair conditioner. It worked a treat, but you needed a lot of Bicarb. So I found a second recipe using corn flour and shaving foam too.
The bicarb one really was cold, but there wasn’t a huge amount.
Still, the kids loved it! Though the cleaner probably cursed me, as there was powdery white stuff everywhere!!!!
And this inspired me to create a new display too!
Those are our ‘icicles’ hanging from the top, and I even wrote a poem!
Frost and icicles and snow!
Winter weather’s here you know!A great big snowman we will build
Until our hands feel cold and chilledThen we’ll come and warm our hands
We love winter with our friends!
Whether they appreciate it or not, I think it looks pretty! And the children always love to look for photos of themselves!
I was especially impressed with my Olaf! Who doesn’t love him? The best thing was when I originally put Olaf on the wall. There was nothing else to look at, but him. It intrigued the children, who were eager to see what all this was about. But the best scene was when I came inside from the playground to find four little girls like this…
They were ‘watching’Olaf like a film!!!!
Oh to be a child again, eh!
More from Nursery-Land another time!
But I Smile Anyway... 
Jan 08, 2017 @ 19:08:58
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Jan 08, 2017 @ 19:25:15
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Jan 08, 2017 @ 00:03:38
Love your snow, I will try that out in my nursery…….I’m in Scotland so my kids have experienced the real thing but not for almost a year!
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Jan 08, 2017 @ 00:09:08
It was simple to make but you need a lot of raw materials to get a good amount! ❄😊
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 20:45:05
Haha… true! Who can escape Olaf’s charm???
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 22:34:25
I love Olaf! I even have a tee shirt!
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Jan 08, 2017 @ 09:49:19
He is a star. My daughter and my son’s girlfriend are totally crazy about him. I just created a travel mug for her.😀
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Jan 08, 2017 @ 10:23:22
Aw! So cool!
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Jan 08, 2017 @ 14:16:00
😁⛄️😁
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 19:02:46
Great display 🙂 I’m sure the kids loved the faux snows, too 🙂
Here, we call them Bristle Blocks. I remember them fondly! They’re hard to find here, or they were when mine were that age.
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 22:31:59
Snow is a fun thing. It’s a shame we don’t get as much here!!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 16:41:47
Enchanting …. I love your tales from the nursery ❤️
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 17:01:17
Thank you! I feel blessed to work with, and mould, our future generations… and they sure give me inspiration !
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 17:30:12
I want a dog-rocket!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 17:43:51
Lol!!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 15:00:19
What a creative person you are, Sis. I am not surprised that the kids loved it so much 🙂
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 16:13:50
It was lovely to see them experiencing something different! Thanks sis xxx
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 14:39:50
Love this post, Ritu! The children watching Olaf is so cute. Corn starch and shaving cream for snow- what are the proportions? Also, PLEASE tell me how you made the icicles on the bulletin board! Happy weekend.
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 16:12:34
Thanks Jennie!
With the corn starch and foam.i used 500 g cornflour and pretty much a whole can of white shaving foam. Adding it a little at a time until.it us the consistency you want!
The icicles were just lots of junk, like polystyrene packaging, white straws, bubble wrap and white coloured foamy shapes which the kids used to thread onto white string. Great motor control exercise!
I know… those girls sitting there was such a precious site!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 17:27:12
Thanks!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 17:43:41
You’re welcome!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 17:47:32
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 19:51:47
🙂
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 09:53:37
Lucky you, Ritu. I get to train post-grad which is not nearly as much fun or as rewarding.
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 10:23:29
I do love the early years!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 08:58:57
Hey Ritu! thanks for liking my recent post…any thoughts? comments?
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 04:01:14
Ritu
You are very creative with making the snow for the kids. Why do you not have snow this year – is it because of global warming ?
Who is Olaf ?
Susie
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 09:03:48
We don’t get much snow here in the South East of England for some reason. Winter like our childhood ones seem to have slowly disappeared with global warming. The last snowc of any significance that we had was 6 years ago!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 12:49:56
I remember days’ of snow that Fatty and others described in the Five Findout- ers and also the frost on the ground. I guess they were somewhere around Kent.
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 13:40:08
There was never a real Location for the children. It was all made up but who knows where Blyton got her inspiration from!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 13:52:47
In some they said “Marlow” and some they said ” a train journey to London ” to buy disguises- maybe it was Kent.
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 14:09:54
Who knows!!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 16:32:00
Ritu,
Your comment gave me a reality check. Enid Blyton books have a habit of making you believe the characters and places are so real and even alive today. I am sorry I got carried away.
Susie
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 16:41:26
Lol!! That’s the beauty of a wonderful book!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 09:04:18
Olawaloubi I’d a character from the population kids Disney movie Frozen x ❄
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 00:57:38
What a cool idea re fake snow!!! Definitely something to try to do with kids who haven’t seen snow here. I will keep this in mind!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 00:59:47
It’s pretty simple Sandra. 3 cups bicarb to 1 cup conditioner!!! Feels cold!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 07:16:24
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 00:33:01
Dog Rocket wouldn’t have been my first guess. 😃
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 00:36:26
It’s great isn’t it!!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 16:30:17
From the minds of kids. 😃
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 16:40:57
Oh yes!!! 😁😁😁
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Jan 06, 2017 @ 23:53:39
You need snow in that school playground 🙂
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 00:08:03
Oh we really do! They would love it!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 00:09:02
So, I feel, would you 🙂
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 00:13:46
I sooo want snow! But I want it to be so much that we get a few days off school, so I can be cut off from the others, with just my little family around me! The last time, 6 years ago, we had such a wonderful time!!! Lil Princess was almost losing herself, in it. Well she lost her boots several times anyway! But she was only 3!!!
And we managed to make real, proper, big snowmen!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 00:30:23
Yes, you need that too. I like my village getting snowed in 🙂
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 00:36:12
It’s a small pleasure!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 00:41:00
A big one even…Ani is as excited as a child, though she’s not so good at making snownen 😉
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 00:48:16
Oh I can imagine the frozen mess she becomes!!!
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 01:07:26
She absolutely adores snow 🙂
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 01:15:39
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Jan 07, 2017 @ 01:25:52
🙂
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