tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81213546874745215782024-03-04T23:23:17.125-08:00Hobbsy's House Childminding/Ty Hobbsy Gofal PlantI'm a CSSIW Registered Childminder in Clydach, Swansea. This blog is intended to show you what I get up to with my children day to day. As you can see we like to keep busy and try out new things! If you want more information on my fees, policies or availability please call me on 01792 845610 or email me on iolahobbs00@gmail.com Gallaf i siarad Cymraeg yn eithaf da. Gofyn i fi am fy Narbodaeth Cymraeg.Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-8672850890235080122014-02-22T13:18:00.003-08:002014-02-22T13:18:29.859-08:00February Half Term FunLooking for some cheap or free activities in and around Swansea for half term? Look no further! I've compiled them all in a handy list! I'm keeping everything crossed for good weather as Margam's program of events looks fantastic this half term. There are some wet weather library and museum options though!<br />
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<b>Monday 24th February</b><br />
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Margam Park: Grow Your Own Veg session along with the opportunity to make a grasshead to take home. Sessions are at 10.30, 12, 1.30 and 3.30 and cost £2 per child.<br />
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Waterfront Museum: Design Your Own Lemon Clock, make a clock using a lemon! 12.30 - 2.30. Ages 7+ and needs to be booked. £2 per child.<br />
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<b>Tuesday 25th February</b><br />
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Margam Park: Drumming Workshop at 10.30, 12.00, 1.30 and 3.30 in the Castle.<br />
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Swansea Museum: Make and illustrate your own book and do 'giant fridge poetry'! Ages 4+. 10- 1 and 2 - 4pm<br />
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Swansea Central Library: Spy Adventure Treasure Hunt suitable for ages 8 - 12. 1.30 - 2.30pm<br />
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<b>Wednesday 26th February</b><br />
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Clydach Library: 'Design to Smile', I think this is some kind of dentist run/themed craft session. 11 - 12.<br />
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Margam Park: Willow Weaving, make a Willow Snail. £2 per child, sessions at 10.30, 12, 1.30 and 3.30<br />
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<b>Thursday 27th February</b><br />
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Margam Park: Storytelling in the Castle at 11.30, 12.30, 1.30, 2.30, 3.30<br />
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Swansea Museum: 'Dylan's Swansea' a collage and painting workshop suitable for ages 8 - 16 although younger children are welcome. Sessions are at 10 - 1 and 2 - 4pm<br />
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Swansea Central Library: 'Here Come the Aliens', story time and craft 1.30 - 2.30 pm. Suitable for ages 5 - 8.<br />
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<b>Friday 28th February</b><br />
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Margam Park: Super Soapy Soap Socks (!), a felt making workshop to make a super soap sock (whatever that is!). 10.30, 12, 1.30, 3.30. £2 per child.<br />
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Swansea Central Library: Family Film (no information about which film it is yet) at 1.30pm<br />
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On top of all this there's free swimming at all the local leisure centres and play sessions at various places in Swansea (look on swansea.gov.uk for more info). The Odeon and The Vue are also running their Kids Club films in the mornings which are pretty good value. <br />
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Happy Holidays! Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-78105464720112727142014-02-09T12:29:00.004-08:002014-02-09T12:29:48.260-08:00The Winter Olympics have come to Clydach!So this week we've been inspired by the start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. We've used the Olympics as the theme for our artwork and for some other activities too.<br />
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Painting circles, I showed them the Olympic logo and one of the boys made a pretty good attempt at copying it!<br />
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We also made the logo out of paper plates and coloured tissue paper:<br />
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The after school children enjoyed making toboggans out of lego and racing them down the courses I made:<br />
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By far the most popular activity was the little ice rink I made, they just didn't want to make their toy figures race though, they wanted to get onto the ice themselves!<br />
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<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-28435004234341909762014-01-31T14:42:00.001-08:002014-01-31T14:43:22.324-08:00Happy Chinese New Year!One of my (Chinese) New Year Resolutions is to update my poor neglected blog more often! This week we've celebrated Chinese New Year with some lovely crafts and activities for kids of all ages, as well as trying some Chinese Food.<br />
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Using footprints to make a horse picture was very popular, the children really enjoyed the tickly feeling of the paint on their feet!<br />
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They made Chinese lanterns too - great for practicing scissor skills: <br />
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Using some printables from the fantastic <a href="http://www.redtedart.com/2013/01/09/chinese-new-year-craft-dragon-puppet-free-printable/" target="_blank">Red Ted Art</a> the older children made these Chinese Dragons<br />
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Noodles made for some lovely messy play:<br />
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And we tried a variety of different Chinese food today, chicken and veg stir fry for dinner and vegetable spring rolls and prawn crackers for lunch!<br />
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We made truffles that had crushed biscuits in them, it was lots of fun making the crumbs: <br />
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So was mixing and rolling the truffles, as well as decorating a cone to put them in: <br />
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Painting the cards and a flower pot was also fun! We went to the garden and I let the children choose which flowers they wanted to put in their flower pot. <br />
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The end result looked pretty good too:<br />
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Today we were celebrating Santes Dwynwen Day (the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine) with crafts and baking:<br />
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Quality sweet wrappers stuck onto some sticky back plastic make a lovely suncatcher!<br />
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Oes ti ddim yn gwybod amdano Santes Dwynwen, dyma'r stori/If you don't know about Santes Dwynwen, heres' the story; <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/northwestwales/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_8458000/8458910.stm" target="_blank">Pwy Oedd Santes Dwynwen?</a>Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-45152224434590423742012-12-21T10:51:00.002-08:002012-12-21T10:52:00.683-08:00A festival of Christmas activities!We've rounded off a brilliant year with some lovely Christmassy activities. I've not got round to blogging much as we've been so busy, so here's a quick run down:<br />
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We've made christmassy cupcakes: <br />
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Saltdough decorations: <br />
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Mincepies: <br />
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We've partied! <br />
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We've played with snowy sensory trays:<br />
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And peppermint christmas tree playdough:<br />
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We've decorated the Christmas tree:<br />
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And exlpored a Christmassy discovery box:<br />
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Done Christmassy colouring in:<br />
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Made snowmen:<br />
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And gingerbread Christmas trees:<br />
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Explored the oaty, pepperminty Christmas sensory tray:<br />
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Gone on a trip to Winter Wonderland: <br />
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Made Christmas cards:<br />
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Been to see the Coca Cola lorry:<br />
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And finished off with Christmas dinner:<br />
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It's been so much fun - hope Father Christmas brings something lovely for all these good little boys and girls! Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-16285971731900538482012-12-01T14:05:00.002-08:002012-12-01T14:05:29.017-08:00Making an Advent WreathThere are so many lovely Christmassy craft ideas out there, we just have to try them out over the next few weeks. We started with an Advent Wreath, the finished article didn't look that spectacular if I'm honest, but the kids really enjoyed the process which is the main thing!<br />
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First we painted the wreath (made out of paper plates!) red <br />
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Then we glued green hand prints made out of tissue paper onto the wreath <br />
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This bit was FUN! The babies rolled cut up tissue rolls in white paint before adding glitter. We'll use this method again, they loved it! <br />
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The finished article; an advent wreath - kind of!Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-6518921672265886202012-11-18T05:20:00.002-08:002012-11-18T05:20:27.633-08:00Treasure RocksLast week the 3 year old I look after really enjoyed the dinosaur part of our letter D activities. So I decided to do something with dinosaurs again this week. I made treasure rocks (recipe <a href="http://www.sewcando.com/2010/04/diy-treasure-stones-tutorial.html" target="_blank">here</a>) and hid dinosaurs in them. The kids had great fun bashing them open to discover what was inside:<br />
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It turned into a really brilliant activity, the kids played with them for ages, exploring the texture as the rocks crumbled:<br />
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They used the crumbled up rocks to make 'cakes' and even made a dinosaur land out of them - hours of fun! <br />
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<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-41835698304100188742012-11-18T05:15:00.000-08:002012-11-18T05:15:07.901-08:00Diwali Inspired FootprintsIt was Diwali this week and I wanted to do something age-approrpriate for the 1 and 2 year olds I was looking after. The story of Rama and Sita went over the heads (not surprisingly!) but in my research I found that some homes put out footprints to guide the Goddess Lakshmi along with the lamps. So we decided to make some footprints of our own:<br /><br />
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My 2 year old particularly enjoyed this and we decided to add a bit of glitter - more inspired by Holi the festival of colours than Diwali I admit! <br />
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<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-15279545706283082212012-11-11T11:56:00.000-08:002012-11-11T11:56:26.019-08:00Friday starts with a 'D'We're slowly working our way through the alphabet, working on letter recognition and crafting letters to decorate the walls of the playroom. This week we got to D! We made a D for dog and a d for dinosaur:<br />
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Then I buried some Dinosaurs and Dragons in our 'Cloud Dough' - these had to be Dug out!<br />
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Lunch was Hot Dogs of course!Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-89831326043081005072012-11-11T11:49:00.004-08:002012-11-11T11:49:56.129-08:00Black playdoh x 3I made some black playdoh for Halloween so the children could make spooky spiders and monsters and bats:<br />
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I brought it out for bonfire night to make fireworks too using pom poms and cotton buds dyed with food colouring! <br />
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Then I thought of another use for it - road building. Here one of my mindees is enjoying 'delivering' more of the playdoh in a dumper truck! <br />
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<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-10711885899795277542012-10-26T12:29:00.000-07:002012-10-26T12:29:12.779-07:00Half Term Halloween Fun
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It's a bit late, but just in case anyone needs inspiration for next week, here are some of the events on in Swansea during half term:<br />
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<b>Glyn Vivian Half Term Holiday Workshops:</b><br />
29 October 2012 11am - 4pm<br />
01 November 2012 11am - 4pm <br />
Free admission<br />Tel: 01792
516900<br />Email: <a href="mailto:glynn.vivian.gallery@swansea.gov.uk">glynn.vivian.gallery@swansea.gov.uk</a><br />Website:<strong>
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Create a work of art in fun workshops for children and
families at the YMCA, Swansea. No booking required, spend an hour or
stay all day.With artist Sheree Murphy.Contact the Gallery
Information line on 01792 516900. All children under 10 must be
accompanied by an adult.
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<b>Halloween Ghost Train</b><br />
<strong>30 - 31 October 2012</strong>From
Southend: 4.45pm; 5.30pm; 6.15pm and 7.00pm<br />
<strong> </strong>£5.00 per person (children will
receive a free goodie bag)<br /><strong>Tel: </strong>01792
635411<br /><strong>Website: </strong><a href="http://www.swansea.gov.uk/ghosttrain" target="_blank">http://www.swansea.gov.uk/ghosttrain</a><br />
Hop aboard the Ghost Train this Halloween! The Halloween Ghost
Train will be making its spooky way down Swansea Prom two nights this
Halloween. Ghosts, goblins and witches of any age can enjoy the
popular return journey from Southend Gardens to Blackpill Lido.
Places get booked up early, so parents are urged to book early to
avoid disappointment. Part of the Swansea Bay Festival autumn
programme.<br />
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<b>Spook Night</b>
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<strong>30 - 31 October 2012</strong>5.30pm
- 7.00pm<br />
<strong> </strong>Children and adults £4.50 each<br /><strong>Tel:
</strong>01792 474555 <br /><strong>Website: </strong><a href="http://www.plantasia.org/" target="_blank">http://www.plantasia.org</a><br />
This Halloween Plantasia will once again be opening their doors
after dark and inviting all you ghouls, goblins and witches to join
in the fun. Follow the ghost trail, enjoy spooky activities and come
dressed up in your scariest costume. Pre-booking essential due to
popularity. Part of the Swansea Bay Festival autumn programme.<br />
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<b>Bush Tucker Trial @ Plantasia</b><br />
1, 2 and 3 November
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Come and experience our very own Bush Tucker Trial on 1, 2 and 3
November. Dare to try some tasty critter treats from Honey
locust, nutroasted mealworms, garlic flavoured crickets and see
how close you can get to Big Beastly Bugs? Come and have a
go – if you're brave enough!<br />
4 shows a day: 10.30, 12pm, 2pm and 3.15pm<br />
<strong>Due to popularity pre booking is essentialPrices (price includes a visit of the hot house)</strong><br />
Book online via <strong><a href="http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/27260">Ticketsource</a></strong>
(small booking fee applies) or contact us on on 01792
474555<br />
<strong>Child</strong>: £3.95<br />
<strong>Adult</strong>: £4.95<br />
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<strong>Waterfront Museum</strong><br />
Flick books – 27 Oct – 2 November 11.30, 12.30, 2, 3.
Free. Booking Required<br />
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<strong>Clydach Library </strong>
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Dear Zoo 30<sup>th</sup>
Birthday celebration 10.30 – 11.30. Tuesday 30<sup>th</sup><br />
Halloween Mask Making Wednesday 31st: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
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<strong>Halloween Story Time and Activity at Swansea Central
Library </strong>
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Tuesday 30th: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Listen to some of our favourite Halloween tales and then make a
spooky craft to take home!<br />
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I chalked a load of them around the garden but was very impressed when the little boy I look after kept finding other squares in the brick wall and the roof of the playhouse. Clever boy! Of course we had crackers for a snack: <br />
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And we made some squares to put on the wall alongside the circles we did last time. I found some square beads to glue on and also cut out squares in different materials (card, foam, tissue paper): <br />
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Which lead to filling buckets with water. Which lead to a sink or float experiment. The 3 year old I was looking after wanted to know why a toy frog was staying on top of the water so we talked about how and why some things float and some things sink and found lots of things around the garden to experiment with: <br />
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A big pine cone:<br />
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A toy car: <br />
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And lots more. Lots of fun and lots of learning!Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-62717785603605957112012-10-16T13:41:00.001-07:002012-10-19T11:53:02.958-07:00Discovery Boxes - FabricEvery week I make up a different Discovery Box for the younger children I look after. So far we've had one filled with different shape, size and texture balls, another filled with blocks of different description. This week is fabric. The one year old I look after loves opening and closing lids so I always use a box with a lid and give him a 'spare' empty one so he can move the fabrics around, opening and closing lids to his heart's content!<br />
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As ever, when the older children came home from school they wanted to get stuck in too. So I dug out some larger fabrics which they laid out, explored thoroughly and made into costumes: <br />
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<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-76682244934073355962012-10-11T12:58:00.004-07:002012-10-11T13:08:15.188-07:00Carly, Carly, Carly CylchYesterday was sponsored by the humble circle or, in Welsh, 'cylch'. We did some glueing and sticking, colour matching as we did it:<br />
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Snack time was crumpets of course:<br />
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And we made and decorated some fairy cakes. Even our daffodil bulb planting helped with the circle recognition: <br />
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Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-73503328316830551902012-10-07T13:19:00.003-07:002012-10-07T13:19:55.817-07:00Autumn Art GalleryWe've been doing lots of Autumn Arts & Crafts over the last few weeks. All were as simple as possible to suit the 1 and 2 year olds in my setting:<br />
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These were done in a salad spinner! Put a leaf cut out in and a couple of blobs of paint, get the kids to spin like crazy: <br />
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A hedgehog done by Elin at our fantastic playgroup: <br />
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Here's an Autumn tree, just some tissue paper and glue: <br />
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And this is what we did with the sensory tray stuff - glued it onto card with some PVA glue, very abstract but it's nice to just let the kids get on with it without guiding them too much: <br />
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Some autumn leaf stained glass windows, I've posted about this before (contact paper and tissue paper basically!): <br />
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And last of all, using leaves, pine cones and other autumny bits collected from the park to make prints: <br />
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I think I may have to rename Hobbsy's House, 'Tate Clydach'!<br />
<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-40042822666819683612012-10-06T12:37:00.002-07:002012-10-06T12:37:22.186-07:00A load of old rubbishIf I've learnt nothing else in my time as a mum and now childminder, it's that very young children like very simple things. Last week we made a very basic Autumn Sensory Tray using twigs, pine cones and leaves that we collected from the park:<br />
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It was very successful and I ended up getting it out a quite a few times.<br />
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It was especially successful when used in conjunction with a load of recycling:<br />
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These aren't just cardboard tubes and empty plastic bottles you know, they're actually musical instruments!<br />
<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-20392881769452998132012-09-26T14:37:00.000-07:002012-09-26T14:37:21.123-07:00Hedgehog bread rollsToday we made bread rolls and shaped them into hedgehogs. Making bread is always great to do with kids, they get to mix:<br />
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And, best of all, eat the finished result for their lunch! <br />
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We made the spikes with scissors - that part was too closely supervised to take pictures but the kids really enjoyed, although we did end up with a couple of decapitated hedgehogs along the way!Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-50858894693626403332012-09-24T12:40:00.001-07:002012-09-24T12:40:13.357-07:00Almond Playdough!I had a bit of a homemade playdough disaster today. I'd promised one of my new mindees some pink sparkly playdough to play with after school but something went horribly wrong with my food colouring and it turned out a wierd orange colour! To make up for the wierd colour I added something with a nice smell - almond extract. None of the kids could get enough of it and many, many almondy cakes were made! <span id="goog_1707441889"></span><span id="goog_1707441890"></span><br />
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<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-71157792565145772272012-09-24T12:33:00.001-07:002012-09-24T12:40:13.358-07:00Oat-so much fun!Today's messy play activity was oats! My 2 year old and the 1 year old I was looking after loved this - they scooped them with spoons and put them in cups and bowls, they chucked them all over the floor and ate a fair few as well! Definitely one to do again another day:<br />
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<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-74399371274688700342012-09-21T13:46:00.001-07:002012-09-24T12:40:13.360-07:00Today was B-day!We made some letter Bs (and bs!) today, once I'd cut out all the pieces it was easy enough for the children to glue them all on:<br />
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You can't tell very well from this picture but I made their toast into letter Bs using a cookie cutter:</div>
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Then we had fun with a Big Bucket of Bubbles: <br />
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And I drew some Bs on the wall for them to paint off with water:<br />
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We also made some Butterflies by painting kitchen roll with watered down paint:<br />
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<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-49983448052994332952012-09-18T14:26:00.002-07:002012-09-21T13:47:39.430-07:00Jelly - but not on a plate!<br />
More messy play today, and this time we used Jelly! It's perfect for messy play with babies who still like to put everything in their mouths. I buried some wooden animals in the jelly to encourage the children to get digging around in it. My 2 year old loved it and had a really good time spooning it into different containers and digging out the animals:<br />
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Of course, they couldn't resist having a little taste too!<br />
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<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-21383999095114407562012-09-12T05:47:00.001-07:002012-09-12T05:47:19.926-07:00'Magic' sandRemember this? I had it in my stocking as a child and gave some to my children last Christmas. I found some leftovers the other day and thought the 3 year old I look after might enjoy playing with it. It kept him in and my 2 year old occupied for a while, 'wowing' and 'oohing' at the way it looks like playdoh under the water and turns to sand when you touch it:<br />
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They even enjoyed scooping it back out afterwards to help me tidy up!<br />
<br />Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121354687474521578.post-51915917631678576742012-09-12T05:42:00.001-07:002012-09-12T05:42:53.537-07:00Rice Krispie KrazinessThis week we welcomed a new starter to Hobbsy's House, a lovely 1 year old boy. I'm looking forward to finding lots of fun things to do with a younger toddler and found this fantastic blog <a href="http://www.pre-schoolplay.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">by another childminder</a> full of inspiration. I wanted an easy to set up sensory activity and found a post on Rice Krispies! I set it up outside with the toy kitchen so that my 2 year old could join in at her level:<br />
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Her favourite thing was jumping on them to hear them crunch! <br />
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Meanwhile the 1 year old enjoyed just running his hands through them and carried fistfuls around with him while he played in the garden! Iola Hobbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644068218650134704noreply@blogger.com0