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30 mins
Boxie’s Mindful Jar
Boxie’s Mindful Jar helps us understand how our emotions – happiness, sadness, worry, impatience, fear. It’s a great way of…
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Boxie’s Mindful Jar helps us understand how our emotions – happiness, sadness, worry, impatience, fear. It’s a great way of…
Read MoreWhen I’m angry,
when I’m sad
,
when I’m feeling really mad...
Thoughts fly off at every angle
But how can I undo the tangle?
Getting Started Do you have any drawings lying around? If not, why not do some new ones of people, animals…
Read MoreSome puppets have strings from above
Others fit over your hand,
But these ones have fingers for legs
So they can walk and dance and stand.
Getting Started Place leaves on a table. Place the paper on top of the leaves. Tape the paper on the…
Read MoreThere are beautiful shapes and patterns
On the leaves of different trees,
You can turn them into pictures
Use any leaf you please!
Getting Started: Collect small flowers and leaves. Arrange the flowers on a piece of waxed or greaseproof paper. Place another…
Read MoreSpringtime brings the flowers their blooms
But then it goes away,
What if we could keep those blooms
To brighten a winter day?
Getting Started: Fold paper in two to create a crease, then press flat again. Put blobs of paint on one…
Read MoreWhen you look in the mirror,
You see another you...
Now see what happens to wet paint,
When you fold the paper in two!
Getting Started: Carefully cut off the bottom of a carrot – the pointy end! Stick four cocktail sticks around the…
Read MoreDo you know how vegetables grow:
A potato or a carrot?
There’s an experiment that shows you how,
Come one now, let’s try it!
Getting Started: Put some cotton wool in two yogurt pots on a warm and sunny windowsill. Sprinkle some cress seeds…
Read MoreEveryone knows
that everything grows,
From a tiny little seed...
We’re going to plant a garden now,
And here’s what you will need.
Getting Started: Do you have any puzzles? Jigsaw puzzles? Wooden puzzles? Rubik’s cubes? Crosswords, Sodoku, books of riddles? Most people…
Read MorePuzzles come in many types
But Boxie’s very picky!
They have to be a lot of fun
As well as being tricky!
Getting Started: A family tree is like a map of your family. It helps you to find your way back…
Read MoreDid granddad have a granny?
Is she my granny too?
Am I related to Adam and Eve?
And who is ‘Great Auntie Sue'?
Getting Started: Place chairs with their backs to each other but with a good space between. Drape the blankets over…
Read MoreThe aliens are coming
Where are you going to hide?
Make a run for Boxie’s Fort
Where you’ll be safe inside!
Getting Started: Turn the boxes and jam jars upside down and pat them with your hands, different size boxes will…
Read MoreGetting Started: Paper should be a bit more than twice the size of the comb. Fold the paper over the…
Read MoreGetting Started: Fill each glass with a different amount of water. Tap each with a pencil to see what sounds…
Read MoreGetting Started: There are a whole lot of musical instruments you can make with things lying around the house, from…
Read MoreMusic comes from many things
From boxes, tubes and spoons,
Let’s make a homemade orchestra
Then play ourselves some tunes!
Getting Started: This is a fun and easy way to learn about the world around you and what your body…
Read MoreOur senses help us read the world
what’s safe and what is not,
And if you focus in on one
You can learn a lot!
Getting Started: Have a bit of fun choosing a playlist. Don’t just pick things you think are cool, pick things…
Read MorePump up the volume!
Pump it some more!
Get your feet up
on the floor,
A little bit of twisting,
a little bit of hoppin’
The next thing you know
the kids’ll be boppin’!!!
No instructions given
Read MoreWhen the toilet paper’s finished
The tubes are left behind,
We can make people with these
And trees of every kind!
Getting Started: Do you have any drawings lying around? If not, why not do some new ones of people, animals…
Read MoreSome puppets have strings from above
Others fit over your hand,
But these ones have fingers for legs
So they can walk and dance and stand.
Getting Started: Tape or glue boxes and cylinders together to make space age cities, trains, animals or abstract sculptures. Paint…
Read MoreDo you do lots of recycling?
I really hope that you do,
But those empty wrappers and packets
Can be used for other things too!
Getting Started: Put hand inside the sock to prevent gluing both sides together. Glue on any of the materials to…
Read MoreToeknee used to be a sock
That’s why he’s one foot high!
Let’s make some brand new friends for him
It’s easy if you try!
Getting Started: Put the paint on a plate and allow your child to explore touching the paint their fingers and…
Read MoreWhat would I want with a paint brush
When I’ve fingers on my hand?
The pictures I paint with my fingertips
Turn out just the way I planned!
Getting Started: Pour tablespoon of oil in the bottom of a large saucepan Pour a layer of corn kernels, almost…
Read MoreHomemade popcorn makes more racket
Than fireworks at New Year’s,
It tastes better than the stuff in a packet!
But you might want to cover your ears!
Getting Started: Put all of the ingredients into a big bowl then mix them and whisk them until you have…
Read MoreWho doesn’t like a fairy cake
With icing on the top!
And I bet I’ll like the ones you make
More than ones bought in a shop!
Tip Gathering objects found outside opens up an amazing opportunity of discovery for you and your child. Allow their curiosity…
Read MoreSycamore and Maple trees
Have a secret up their sleeves!
Their seeds fly down in helicopters
From high up in their leaves!
