Nature Play: Leaf Threading
Let’s do some leaf threading! A lovely way to practice those fine motor skills, while noticing the differences and similarities in your leaf collection 🌿🍃
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Nature Play: Printmaking
Let’s make some nature prints! We were inspired by a few friends to make art from nature! Grab some leaves, some paint, a pant roller or a sponge and give it a go!
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Sticks: Painting with Sticks
Would you like to paint a lovely “mess” using handmade stick brushes? Grab some sticks from your nature walk, add leaves, sponges, foil or anything that could make an interesting shape on your canvas of choice and start painting!
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Sticks: Banging Sticks
Let’s make some noise with Jess and her cute kittens! Let’s bang our sticks to different objects and see what sound they make! You could also take out your pots and pans and do some drumming!
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Sticks: Playdough Playbus Birthday Cake
Playdough is really cheap and easy to make, and there are so so so many benefits of giving children the chance to play with it. It is one of our favourite things to play with on the Playbus. Have a go at making some yourself if you fancy! Here’s Ian making a playdough Playbus birthday […]
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Spoon Puppets
What an ingenious way to learn about emotions: home-made spoon puppets! Can you name these feelings? Is the spoon sad, angry, scared, surprised?
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Spoon Patterns
Opportunities for play and learning are all around us.. even in your cutlery drawer! Organising and sorting a collection, noticing differences and similarities and making patterns.. what a great introduction to a few mathematical concepts!
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Spoon Race
Fruit and spoon races require a lot of concentration and balance from these little hands. By providing a range of different sized fruits and spoons, you can turn these “races” into a really fun, rewarding activity!
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Spoons: Scooping Transferring and Pouring
Let’s practice hand-eye coordination, concentration and balance by scooping, trasferring and pouring. In this video, we are using rice, but you could use lentils, pasta or even small toys. Get creative!
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