This is a great scavenger hunt from Primary Playground. Use it help your child explore all their different senses and practice descriptive words.
This is a great scavenger hunt from Primary Playground. Use it help your child explore all their different senses and practice descriptive words.
Help your frustrated child calm down with this series of yoga poses specifically designed for reducing anger. Visit Kids Yoga Stories for 5 different safari animals that your child can pretend to be, while letting go of their frustration.
While your child is practicing, head over to National Geographic Kids for some fun facts about elephants, hippos, and lions.
Grab your favourite cuddly toy and join Dantastic and Gran for a pyjama party! This 30 minute video features songs, dancing, and a children’s story acted out by Dantastic Productions – with plenty of help from your kids at home.
Depending on what sort of garden area you have at home, this might be a fun scavenger hunt to get the kids out in the fresh air for a while. It comes curtesy of Primary Playground.
Looking for a way to cool off as the days get warmer? How about a game of water balloon piñata? You will need some balloons, plenty of string, something to use as a bat (baseball bat, cricket bat, sweeping brush handle, long cardboard tube, etc.), and an open space outside to set up your game.
1. Fill your balloons with water and tie them closed. (The fuller they are, the quicker they will burst!)
2. Tie a length of string to each ballon and hang them outside. A tree branch would be ideal for this, but a patio cover, washing line, or outdoor umbrella may also work as long as they can support the weight of the water balloons. Make sure you don’t tie the balloons too high – your child needs to be able to reach them with their bat!
3. Let your kids take turns swinging the bat at the balloons and see who can pop the most!
Always supervise your child at all times with this activity, particularly when they are using the bat. Others must stand well back when someone is taking their turn.
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This scavenger hunt is a great way to get your kids up and moving, practicing their reasoning skills and using descriptive words. It comes curtesy of Primary Playground and would work well with both your preschool children and any school-aged siblings.
Your child won’t even realise they’re exercising with this silly workout video from GoNoodle. Follow along with energetic instructions to roll giant meatballs, smush bugs, shoo away pigeons, and raise the roof. You may need to point out to your child the figure in the black circle at the bottom corner of the video, as this will show your child which actions to do.
Need to calm things down? If your kids are bouncing off the walls, try playing this cool down video from GoNoodle. The soothing instructions get your kids to pretend to freeze like ice cubes, and then slowly melt into a puddle.
Get your kids up, dancing and laughing along to this amazing video by children’s entertainer Dantastic Productions. Before starting the video, help your kids collect the thing they will need: a noise-maker (such as a shaker, musical instrument, or pot and spoon), something to wave (such as a scarf, ribbon or tea towel), and a pillow. Then, join Dantastic and Cheeky Monkey on an interactive, magical, musical adventure!
This activity from the Woodland Trust is a great way to get your kids active, using their imaginations, and learning about nature! Challenge them to:
1. Lie on the ground and wriggle like a worm
2. Flap their arms like a butterfly flutters it’s wings
3. Put their hands on the floor and scuttle about like a spider
4. Do some giant leaps like a cricket
5. Crawl on the floor, then curl up into a ball like a woodlouse
Then, head over to TheSchoolRun.com for lots of interesting minibeast facts, photos, and a video.
