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Wintery Sensory Play

by thejoyoffive4 Comments on Wintery Sensory Play

  

With the small amount of snow we have had this winter and the fact the number four’s theme at nursery for the next couple of weeks is ‘Frozen’ I decided to sort a wintery themed sensory play activity for this afternoon.

I took a jug of cold water and mixed with a few drops of blue food colouring, filled an ice cube tray and waited until they were frozen.

With a can of cheap shaving foam stashed away that we normally keep for bath paints I created a mound of snow and scattered the ice cubes over the top.

  

    
  
The longest part of prepping this activity is waiting for the ice cubes to harden.  It really is so simple and number four spent ages playing around and exploring the different textures.

Who needs snow!

   

  

  

  
  
   

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Lemonade The Goldfish And Foamy Bathtime

by thejoyoffive1 Comment on Lemonade The Goldfish And Foamy Bathtime

Today bought the dreaded question I somehow thought I had managed to avoid “where is my fish?”

A few months ago I got up to the terrible sight of a floating ‘Goldie’ in the fish tank.  I swiftly removed him before he was seen by little eyes, but before I knew it number four was by my side asking where Goldie was!!  In a state of panic I said that he was having a rest in the shed.  To this day I have no idea why this ludicrous thought came into my head.

Weeks passed and the replacement fish was never bought and no more questions were asked.  So instead of doing the sensible thing and teaching him about the unfortunate death and grieving process I now how to keep up this ridiculous facade and decided to tell him he had swam away, but we could go and see if we could go and find another lovely fish just like Goldie.


We took a trip to Woodcote Green garden centre in Wallington.  This really is the Rolls Royce of garden centres.  They have all the usual things you would expect plus a fantasic farm shop with a beautiful deli, butchers and bakery.  An extentsive gift selection, aquarium, two cafes which are nice but slightly over priced and a small outdoor play area for the youngsters.

After spending a while taking in the afternoons beautiful sunshine in the play area we made our way to the aquarium where Frankie very carefully picked out the exact lemon goldfish he wanted.  We set  on the name of Lemonade due to his colour and carefully took him home to the safety of his new tank, with the thought clearly in my mind that when the inevitable happens to poor Lemonade I will deal with it in a much more appropriate way than last time.


As we were on a watery theme today I thought that we could have some fun at bath time tonight with some colours shaving foam.


Number four has suffered with severe eczema over the past few years so bubble baths have been a no no for a long time.


This easy mixture of cheap shaving foam with a few drops or sprinkling of food colouring gave loads of fun to number three, four and five and are plain enough to not affect sensitive skin.