This page provides links, and information you need to successfully run your activities on the 4 week cycle. The 4-week activity cycle can be downloaded here. Not all activities are described here, but the more tricky ones are! If you need further guidance on an activity, and no description appears below, please as your Team Leader, and request that a description be added.
GENERAL
WEEK 2 ACTIVITIES:
Make Pine cone/Nature bottles
Create ‘explore’ bottles from nature items. Click here!
Sloppy Slime
Click here to go to the sloppy slime web page for instructions
Party Penguins
Banana cake
Ingredients
- 2 eggs.
- ½ cup melted coconut oil (or olive oil)
- ⅓ cup Silan
- ¼ Soya cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. (optional)
- 4 ripe/over ripe bananas (great if they are brown)
- 1¾ cups white whole wheat flour
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
WEEK 3 ACTIVITIES
Wholemeal fruit pizza
Pumpkin Bread
Mark making on Silver Foil
Rainbow Soap bubbles
Discovery bottles
Click here for the description
Traditional dance routines to music
Elastic Band instruments
Prepare a range of music instruments that YOU make, before the children come to the activity. The instruments should all me ‘home-made’ with different thickness of elastic/rubber bands around different things. See the examples below. The activity is then about the children ‘plucking’ and ‘strumming’ the different instruments and making different sounds with the different thickness and highness of the bans. You will need a large selection of different kinds of elastic bands for this activity.
WEEK 4 ACTIVITIES
Wrapping building blocks in foil
Click here for a description of the building blocks in foil
Printing with tins (Painting activity)
Making nature faces
Do not use glue. Just provide the children with a cut out of a face (different skin tones should be used), without any features. They can arrange the nature items (eaves, twigs, flowers, grass) to make different kinds of faces, realistic and abstract.
Stain Glass Windows
Using card or black paper, cut some shapes and the children stick tissue paper or cellophane colour paper behind it. The images and links below give you some ideas, but these are all way too complicated for the preschools, just use some simple and straihghtward shapes
Cooking: Flapjacks
Ingredients
- 200g rolled oats
- 55g raisins
- 25g sultanas
- 1 tsp cinnamon (or mixed spice)
- 5 tbsp Silan
- 100ml soya milk
- 2 egg yolks
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160’C
- Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Mix all the wet ingredients in another bowl, then pour into the dry ingredients.
- Give everything a good stir and pour the mixture in a small baking tin.
- Pack the mixture down with the back of a spoon, bake for about 30 mins or until set
- Mark the flapjacks with a palette knife when it’s still warm, leave in the tin to cool.