Good afternoon everyone. Chamomile here ready to give you this weeks challenge.
I hope you have all been making green choices at home for your Mummies and Daddies. I have been sending messages to the Easter bunny to let him know you have been making them at nursery so hopefully you have received lots of Easter eggs.
I have been reading this lovely book while I am waiting for you all to come back. It celebrates how different we are.
What I would like you to do while you are out taking some exercise is find a big stone and paint it to make it look like you or a member of staff from Little Elms then bring it to nursery and put it somewhere in our garden for everyone to see when they go past.
All you will need is
A stone
Paint and brushes
Clear nail varnish to cover your stone when it is finished.
When you have painted your stone and are putting it in our garden please get Mummy or Daddy to take a photo of you and put it on Baby’s Days so we know to go and see it and we can tell your friends to look out for it too.
Happy painting everyone.
See you soon. X
Hello everyone, Chamomile here!
Back with another weekly challenge for you all.
Because you've all done such a brilliant job with your rainbows, I thought I'd set you another task.
Your rainbow creations are all around Little Elms and I've loved looking at each of the different pictures you've been sending in. I showed the grown ups too and they loved them, just as much as I did.
This weeks task is to make a treasure basket full of things you love.
To create a treasure basket, you'll need . . .
-One box of any shape or size.
-Lots of creative things - paint, tissue paper, wrapping paper, stickers...
-Objects!
Firstly, decorate your boxes with the creative materials you have. You can make it your favourite colour! I wonder if you could write your names on the box?
When it's done, leave it to dry!
Next, you need to find some different objects to put inside. These could be your favourite toys, something you won, a certificate..anything that is special to you.
If your box is dry, you can fill it up with all of the different objects!
Now you've created a special treasure box full of all your special treasure!
Here is my treasure box!
I love shiny objects and filled my treasure box with all different shiny objects!
I can't wait to see all of your Treasure Boxes. Please remember to send me a picture.
See you soon,
Love Chamomile x
Keep Smiling
Today Chamomile would like to challenge everyone to create a rainbow to make everyone smile. Children love being creative and a rainbow can be made using any resources with or without glue, big or small and indoors or outdoors. She would like everyone to be as creative and as individual as possible to celebrate everyone's individuality.
She would like each child to create their rainbow and email a picture of them holding it as well as a picture of the rainbow on its own to the nursery. We are going to show the world we can stay cheerful through this time.
So when your child/ family have created their rainbow and sent it to Chamomile we will email a copy to Heaton House to cheer the Nannies and Grandad up and we will print a copy to display outside the nursery in the garden.
We will then post photos of the display on Baby's Days so you and your children can see what the pictures look like displayed together and ensure the children don't forget the nursery while they are away.
Let us introduce you all to Chamomile the bunny who loves creativity. She likes to challenge the children to develop their creativity too and will be setting tasks for the children to explore during these strange and unprecedented times.
Here she is sitting in front of the house the children made her when she arrived at Little Elms after Christmas. She was sent by the Elf on a shelf to look after the children and make sure everyone is making green choices until the elf returns next Christmas.
The children drew Chamomile's friends at the windows of her house.
Keep a look out for Chamomile's weekly suggestions and creative challenges.
Exploring creativity is something that children have a huge capacity to do, but which is often suppressed by a lack of inner confidence and the fear of thinking they are not 'getting it right'. Many children that come to Little Elms gradually find confidence to 'have a go' and begin to develop an interest in all things creative.
By nurturing a culture of creative exploration among the children and staff we all gain strength from each other. We share our own excitement in our own achievements and start to believe that anything is possible if we try.
Giving freedom to all to explore without pressure, with no end product expected we often reach a place in our hearts where we are proud of our individuality. For children to reach a place where they feel proud of their efforts, that make them feel they have taken a risk and it has been 'OK' they will become more confident in taking risks in other areas of their lives and their learning. They will learn that they can try new things without feeling that the end product has only one outcome. Feeling that they may not achieve the right outcome can sometimes prevent a child from trying.
This painting on newspaper exploration allowed the children to see past the print on the page and produce patterns and shapes of their own. The contrast between the regular formal print on the page and the free expression of the paint over the top gave the children the the opportunity to recognise that resources can be used for alternative purposes. News paper is not just for adults to read, it can become a blank canvas. It also exposes them to different styles and sizes of font, providing opportunities for children to see familiar letters that may subconsciously penetrate their minds and enable them to gradually become aware of how letters make up different words if they are in different orders.
At Little Elms, we've started exploring Christmas. We have been looking at different decorations as well as making our own Christmas tree.
It was suggested by one of the children that we could make some stars to hang on our Christmas tree.
So that is what we did.
First we had to find a cutter that was in the shape of a star. After a look around Little Elms, we discovered one.
Next we got out the clay and used a cutter to cut the clay. A grown up had to help as it was tricky for us.
Once we found the cutter, we used rolling pins to roll out our clay. We enjoyed rolling out the clay but it was hard work.
After we had rolled out our clay, we then used our star shaped cutter to press out the stars. We had to push the cutter into the clay to make a star.
Once we had pushed the cutter into the clay, a star shape was made.
We then thought about how we wanted to decorate them and decided we wanted to put glitter onto them.
We chose lots of different colours and enjoyed sprinkling glitter on, to make our starts really sparkly, just like real stars in the sky.
Once they were dry they looked really twinkly. Instead of hanging them on our tree at Little Elms, we have decided to give them to our friends at Heaton House as a Christmas present.
We can't wait to see their faces when they open them!
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