Friday at home

The most recent edition of Kids Craft Weekly has some great ideas for stuff you can do with pre-schoolers at home learning about the alphabet.

Our first activity was the magazine alphabet game.  - what you do is give the child a sheet with the alphabet on it then provide magazine and scissors and together find letters to chop out.

It started Ok - Kd finding an A straight away, but then he found a robot costume made from cardboard boxes and then we were straight into the studio to do some serious robot making.

Hj is really enjoying pretending to cook and kitchen play.  

Friday at home

The most recent edition of Kids Craft Weekly has some great ideas for stuff you can do with pre-schoolers at home learning about the alphabet.

Our first activity was the magazine alphabet game.  - what you do is give the child a sheet with the alphabet on it then provide magazine and scissors and together find letters to chop out.

It started Ok - Kd finding an A straight away, but then he found a robot costume made from cardboard boxes and then we were straight into the studio to do some serious robot making.

Hj is really enjoying pretending to cook and kitchen play.  

Two celebrations - one under the table

Hj and Kd impromptu tea party under the table!

Kd getting into the action at my second niece's first birthday.  Her birthday gift I made posted here.

Two celebrations - one under the table

Hj and Kd impromptu tea party under the table!

Kd getting into the action at my second niece's first birthday.  Her birthday gift I made posted here.

Kd's first stitching embroidery -

Yesterday afternoon Kd decided that he wanted to do some more sewing. Inspired by our ribbon embroidery of the day before and also by Soulemama's post and pic of her son (seriously who isn't - I think I read this post when I was at work in Melbourne and started crying - she just grounds me right back into the reality of being a mother)

Any how get got right into it finding an image - doing the drawing onto the fabric - choosing the colour of floss and away we went - although didn't get a great deal of stitching done. This takes a lot of concentration that he doesn't have right now - but hopefully we will return to this.

Kd's first stitching embroidery -

Yesterday afternoon Kd decided that he wanted to do some more sewing. Inspired by our ribbon embroidery of the day before and also by Soulemama's post and pic of her son (seriously who isn't - I think I read this post when I was at work in Melbourne and started crying - she just grounds me right back into the reality of being a mother)

Any how get got right into it finding an image - doing the drawing onto the fabric - choosing the colour of floss and away we went - although didn't get a great deal of stitching done. This takes a lot of concentration that he doesn't have right now - but hopefully we will return to this.

Kd embroidery afternoon

Kd and I like to spend a little time in the studio - sometimes it is a lot sometimes not long at all.

Today we did a few activities - but one I have been wanting to do with him and also Hj - although she was having her afternoon snooze was some hoop embroidery.

Inspired from this site we gave it a go





On this site it recommends this activity for a toddler - but Kd found it a bit tricky - he was Ok once he got his rhythm for pushing from the top to the bottom, then the bottom back to the top. But it didn't grab his attention for long - much more interested in using ribbon to make a ninja costume with.