tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28872824013206010932024-03-19T02:18:07.193-07:00A Little Learning For TwoCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763815768532752018noreply@blogger.comBlogger527125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887282401320601093.post-20313936999283967612014-06-01T22:56:00.002-07:002014-06-01T22:56:59.755-07:00Simple Science - Bi Carb Rocks and Vinegar<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bubble and Squeak are both home sick at the moment, and for two little people who are usually continually on the go that spells boredom. And for me, insanity ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One of the activities that has been keeping them happily amused is a simple science experiment that I used to love doing when I was little too - bi carb and vinegar reactions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>* </b></span>bi carb soda</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> white vinegar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> food colouring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> pipettes/eye droppers</span></div>
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I filled some jars with cheap white vinegar and a few drops of food colouring, then added some pipettes so the girls could drop the vinegar into the bicarb slowly and create patterns.</div>
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The day before I mixed some bi carb with a bit of water to create a paste, then left it to dry in open containers. Once
it was dry I broke it up into 'rocks' so that the girls had something they could hold and investigate a bit easier than dry bi carb powder.<br />
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Both of the girls loved dripping coloured vinegar on to the bi carb soda rocks and watching the chemical reaction cause an eruption of bubbling foam. </div>
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These bubbles are caused by the exchange of protons between the vinegar and baking soda, which creates water and carbon dioxide.</div>
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They experimented with the different colours and using two or three different pipettes at once.</div>
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Once the fizzing and bubbling subsided after each dropper was emptied they were left with multicoloured rocks.<br />
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They were fascinated with the changing size, colour and texture of their rocks. <br />
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Bubble wore little holes through the middle of her rock with the vinegar until she was able to break it in half and have a look at the inside.<br />
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It was full of rainbow coloured rings and she told me "it looks like a geode Mum!".</div>
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Lots of hands on science fun and a great way to pass a day at home fighting some yucky bugs.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Both of our girls are into dinosaurs in a big way, so anything involving Tyrannosaurus Rex and play dough was always going to go down well. <br />This activity was one we did recently which they both enjoyed and also incorporated a lot of great fine motor development for Squeak, particularly her pen grip and drawing skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Plus, it was just plain fun.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WE USED:</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> a whiteboard<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> whiteboard markers</span></div>
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We laid our whiteboard down on the table and the girls got to work creating a dinosaur landscape, including a nest.</div>
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They wanted somewhere for the aquatic dinosaurs to swim so we added a pie dish with water in it to one side.</div>
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Once they were happy with their dinosaur world I gave them some 'dinosaur eggs'. <br />To make these I wrapped toy dinosaurs in play dough and then rolled the dough into an egg shape with the dinosaurs inside, ready to be hatched.</div>
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The girls had a lot of fun hatching their eggs, playing with them in the landscape they had drawn and also in the water.</div>
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They made up stories and added to their whiteboard picture as they went.</div>
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The hatched play dough eggs became a big mud pit for the dinosaurs to stomp around in and hide from the Tyrannosaurus Rex.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They were very simple and fun to make using things we already had stashed in the cupboards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">*</span></b> party hats</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> <i>optional</i> - black contact paper</span></div>
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First we covered our party hats in black contact paper by unfolding them and then tracing their outlines onto the paper backing of the contact. That made it easy to cut the contact to size, cover the hats and then reassemble them with sticky tape.<br />You could also turn the party hats inside out like we did in <a href="http://alittlelearningfortwo.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/inside-out-party-hats.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">THIS POST</span></b></a> and paint them black instead.</div>
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Next we used scissors to cut the center from our paper plates.</div>
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Slide the paper plates over the top of the party hats to see if the center hole is big enough before painting. You want the plate to sit low on the hat, but not so low that it falls off!</div>
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Once you are happy with the plate size you can paint it black too. <br />Or any colour really, who says all witches hats are black, right? :D</div>
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Once the plates are dry you just slip them over the top of the party hats to make cute little witches hats. </div>
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We secured the plates to the hats using tape on the underside.</div>
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The party hats already have elastic attached so the witches hats stay on well.</div>
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Two little witches ready for a Wonderful Wizard Of Oz party!</div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763815768532752018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887282401320601093.post-70597334525257003032014-04-21T18:28:00.000-07:002014-04-21T20:27:43.705-07:00Easy Lunch Idea - Hamburger Shapes<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have written in here before about the challenges we face getting our two girls to eat certain foods, and meat is one of them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Many kids with Autism are selective eaters due to sensory sensitivities, for our girls it is largely colour and texture that determines whether or not they will eat something, or even try it.<br />As they have gotten older we have found ways to get them to try a wide variety of foods (see my earlier post <b><a href="http://alittlelearningfortwo.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/fussy-eating-chart.html" target="_blank">here on fussy eating</a></b>) and cookie cutters have been my saviour many many times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Recently I decided to try my trusty cutters to make some hamburger shapes to see if I could add a bit of variety to the girls lunches. Not only were they very easy to make but they were also a big success!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WE USED:</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>* </b></span>high quality mince meat<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> cookie cutters</span></div>
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Spread the mince to a thickness about half that of your cutter, then use the cutter to create your shapes.<br />
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Once you have made your mince shapes you can cook as you would normally. I made a heap of them and froze some for later!</div>
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Both Bubble and Squeak were more than happy to try 'hamburger stars' for lunch and now I have something else I can add to our meal rotation. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is a fun easy activity our girls like to play on the trampoline, it's a great gross motor exercise and has been helping to burn off some of their excess school holiday energy!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WE USED:</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> streamers<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> strong tape</span></div>
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You can attach your streamers to your trampoline however you feel is safest for your child/trampoline, we just use strong tape to attach ours to the net. </div>
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Today we just put one length of streamer straight across because the girls wanted to practice hopping and jumping like the Easter Bunny, it's also fun to create a big web of streamers for the kids to weave in and out of as well. </div>
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The girls also like to crawl and roll underneath and make up stories to go along with their play. </div>
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The streamers provide an extra element to playtime on the trampoline without causing obstruction since they simply snap or fall down if one of the kids lands on them. <br />Thanks to the tape they are also easy to put up again and change their position.</div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763815768532752018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887282401320601093.post-22908581127788700582014-04-15T22:46:00.000-07:002014-04-15T22:46:24.836-07:00Hula Hoop Ring Toss<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The weather has been very rainy here lately so getting girls outside to play has been harder than usual some days. We set up this activity a few days ago and it has been keeping them entertained for ages, adding new obstacles and learning new throwing techniques.<br />Not only is this game of benefit to the girls gross motor development but they've also been doing a great job of turn taking, making up imaginary story lines to accompany their play and problem solving.</span></div>
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An upturned storage basket was the perfect size for our hoop game and heavy enough not to move too much while we played.</div>
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The girls tried out all kinds of throwing techniques to see which ones worked the best.</div>
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They tried over hand, under hand, frisbee, taking a run up, jump throwing - you name it they tried it out!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> This activity was easy and fun for both of the girls to do and as a bonus incorporated a lot of fine motor practice as well. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WE USED:</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> felt sheets<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> laundry markers<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> scissors<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> hot glue gun / craft glue<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> hair clips<br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Don't have a glue gun or felt? Why not try this activity using cardboard/paper and double sided tape instead to make temporary hair clips for Valentine's Day.</span></b></i></span></div>
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First the girls used the laundry markers to draw hearts on their felt. </div>
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You could draw any shapes you like or even draw pictures and cut around the outsides of them, but both Bubble and Squeak had their hearts set on hearts! </div>
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Once the girls had finished making their felt shapes I fired up the glue gun and they put a blob of hot glue on the ends of their hair clips </div>
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Then they could easily turn the clips over and (holding the cool end of the clips only) press them onto the backs of their felt shapes until the glue dried.<br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If you have never used a glue gun before please note that the gun, the glue and the object you are gluing get <b><i>very</i></b> hot. My girls were well supervised and did not touch the clips until the glue had cooled and set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We try to encourage closeness between our girls every day, in lots of little ways. With Valentine's Day approaching we made these very simple letter boxes for their bedroom doors, they were fun to make and they are both excited to write and leave notes for each other over the coming weeks. <br />Both Bubble and Squeak are also secretly working on a special Valentine's Day card for each other to post the night before, it's beautiful to watch them both working industriously on their 'surprises'. </span></div>
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We used large sized paper plates but you can use any size. </div>
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Using a marker we drew the top of our heart on our plate in a 'V' shape.</div>
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Then we cut the V section from the plate to create a rounded heart shape. </div>
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We used the cut piece as a template to mark out the outline for our other plates.</div>
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Bubble easily cut her own plates but Squeak is still finding fine motor activities challenging so I helped her cut hers using a hand over hand method. </div>
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Once you have cut your two plates face them towards each other (to create a pocket) and then carefully staple around the edges to hold your letter box together.<br />Bubble (6) could do this herself, but I did Squeak's (4) for her. You are the best judge of whether or not your child can safely use a stapler or not. </div>
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Using a hole punch we made a hole on either side at the top. If you don't have a hole punch a skewer or sharp pencil will do the job too. </div>
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The girls both decorated their letter boxes ready for their secret notes.</div>
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I set up a writing station on top of their library book table where they could make special notes for each other.<br />I included shaped notepaper, colourful gel pens, stickers and stamps.<br />All great for making pretty letters and for developing fine motor skills at the same time.</div>
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Bubble and Squeak have already been writing each other little notes and drawing pictures for one another, I'll be leaving little surprises in there for them as well from time to time.</div>
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A fun craft activity and a lovely way to encourage communication.</div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763815768532752018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887282401320601093.post-69266183570799425142014-01-20T04:24:00.000-08:002014-01-20T04:24:06.270-08:00Kickboard Sight Words <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is hot hot hot here at the moment. Our girls have been alternating their time between the backyard paddling pool and sprawling in front of the lounge room fan. <br />The weekend was particularly hot (47'c, yikes!) so I thought I'd try out some fun and sneakily educational activities for us to do in the water while we kept cool.<br />This game was the most popular with both Bubble and Squeak, Squeak in particular wanted to play it over and over again which was a great thing to watch as she usually tires of letter games pretty quickly!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WE USED:</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> paddling pool<br />(you could do this activity in the bath, a pool, a large container of water or a sink too)</span></div>
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I grabbed our foam letters from our bath toy stash and used some sight word cards of Bubbles from last year. We also used tongs to add some fine motor exercise for Squeak who needs to work on her hand strength. </div>
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Squeak, who ordinarily tires quickly of these sorts of activities, enjoyed it so much she went through all 20 word cards in our deck.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Since our special <a href="http://alittlelearningfortwo.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/plate-for-santa.html" target="_blank">Santa Plate</a> met an untimely end last year the girls wanted to make another one for Santa's cookies and treats to go on this year.<br />Today we got out some paper plates and made some fun, easy and food safe Santa Plates for the man in red and his reindeer as well. </span></div>
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Since there will be food going on these plates we are using food colouring to paint with instead of actual paint.</div>
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The girls really enjoyed making these for Santa, we ended up with four of them! Enough for Mrs Claus, the elves and reindeer too. </div>
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Bubble created one with a Christmas tree and another with a star. </div>
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Squeak painted the reindeer on hers :)<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bubble has been begging and begging to make a gingerbread
house this Christmas. The thing is I feel like I’ve been baking day and night
since the start of December and I still have plenty more to do before the ‘big
day’, so the thought of baking gingerbread that won’t get eaten wasn’t really
appealing.<br />
I didn’t want the girls to miss out on the experience though so we picked up
some biscuits from the shops during our last grocery run and today I set them
out with bowls of treats to use for decorations and thick icing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They had a blast getting messy and creating some sticky
little biscuit houses.</span>
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I put out a chopping mat for each of the girls as well as biscuits, icing and decorations.</div>
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Squeak (4) needed a bit of help to get her icing on her biscuits but found it easy to stick them together herself.</div>
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Bubble (6) was able to do it all by herself, she was very proud :) </div>
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The girls then got busy icing and decorating their houses however they liked. <br />
A few Smarties may have been taste tested in the process.<br />
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It was super hot here today (41'c max, hello Summer) so we needed to prop our houses up on each side while they dried or else they kept toppling over!</div>
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The girls experimented with different techniques for putting on their decorations; applying icing to the houses and adding them, putting icing on the decorations themselves and then sticking to the house, drizzling icing over the top and using knives and spoons. </div>
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Squeak's house under construction.</div>
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Bubble's house getting some roof work done. </div>
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Squeak's yummy looking Biscuit House. </div>
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Bubble's finished Biscuit House looked adorable.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Squeak's fine motor development has been our big focus these last few weeks and since she is very keen on doing Christmas themed activities at the moment a lot of our skill building has revolved around that.</span></div>
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The girls chose some Christmas shaped cutters from the play dough box and I made some especially thick play dough for this activity by adding extra flour to our mix. </div>
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First we rolled the dough flat. </div>
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Then we used our cookie cutters upside down so they just made an imprint instead of cutting all of the way through. </div>
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The imprint on the play dough gave the girls a template to cut around.</div>
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Then the girls got to work with their scissors cutting out their Christmas shapes.<br />Because of the extra thick dough it was easy to handle and also cut.</div>
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While little Squeak used play dough scissors Bubble used ordinary scissors. </div>
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Ordinarily cutting is an activity Squeak avoids like the plague. Everything about it frustrates her as her joints fatigue and get painful and she lacks very fine motor control. This activity was different though, the sensory nature of the play dough and also the novelty of cutting dough rather than paper kept her interested for over half an hour. </div>
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The girls ended up making lots of different Christmas shapes.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Little Squeak needs a lot of fine motor practice to build the muscles in her hands and develop her pincer grip for writing and using scissors. Her joints fatigue easily so we try and do short fine motor building activities several times a day to build up these skills.<br />This activity was one the girls really enjoyed and gave Squeak a fine motor work out without her even noticing.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">WE USED:</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> wooden building blocks<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> mini adhesive gift bows</span></div>
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Both Bubble and Squeak love playing with their dolls endlessly on the weekends, so I suggested we use our building blocks to make them some Christmas presents.<br />We chose some present shaped blocks and I put out a bowl of mini adhesive bows to decorate them with.</div>
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This is a great fine motor activity, especially regarding pincer grip which is something she really struggles with. </div>
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The girls ended up with a stack of these under their miniature pink Christmas tree.</div>
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There was plenty of imaginary play going on while they made their presents. <br />The girls chatted away describing what was in each one:<br />"Oh look! This one is a book about Ancient Egypt. It has shiny stickers inside"<br />"This one is a baby doll that also has a teddy bear and a real nappy"</div>
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My favourite kind of activity.<br />The kind where we develop skills while we have fun :) </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> At this time of year we have a LOT of wonderful people to thank.<br />The girls occupational therapist, speech therapist, early intervention teachers, preschool teachers, school teachers and all the various support people who have helped them achieve this year. We are so grateful to every single one of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Trying to come up with a gift that is meaningful, personal, practical and economical when it is multiplied by 20 can be a challenge though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This year I decided to make something similar to our <a href="http://alittlelearningfortwo.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/letter-to-santa-ornament.html" target="_blank"><b>Letter To Santa</b></a> ornament that we made years ago, only this time using quotes that my children have said about each person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The end result is very cute, we'll be packaging them up with something yummy and hopefully they will make these very important people smile each Christmas when they put up their tree.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WE USED:</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(for this project we used small glass baubles from Spotlight, they were $8 for a pack of 9)</span></div>
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The baubles we used were from Spotlight, $8 for a pack of 9.</div>
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These are glass but they have plenty of plastic options too in many different Christmas shapes. </div>
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We carefully removed the tops of each bauble being careful not to damage the metal prongs that hold them in place. </div>
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Then I sat down with the girls and they told me a little bit about why they like each person on our support list.</div>
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Then we printed them out and cut them out with scissors. I made the quote circles roughly the same diameter as the baubles so they would fit inside nicely. </div>
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Once our quotes were cut out it was very simple to roll them up and pop them inside a bauble. I used a skewer to reshape them once they were inside so they weren't all curled up then reinserted the prongs from the tops of the baubles so the paper was in between and held in place. </div>
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I adore the way they turned out, the things the girls said about each person were hilarious and also showed how very important they are to us. </div>
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Hopefully they all remember how wonderful they are every time they look at their Christmas Tree!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We bought some little gifts for the girls teachers this year but also wanted to include something they had made themselves. Beaded jewellery is perfect for this - both our girls were able to make necklaces and bracelets on their own without assistance and chose the beads themselves as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I love them so much I'm going to ask them to make me some for Christmas too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(ours were from Spotlight for $5 a bag, one bag made all of these pictures below and still enough left over for another one)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> <b>threading elastic</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(ours were from Hot Dollar, $2 for a pack of 6)</span></div>
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Bubble's bracelet for her very special teacher.</div>
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Bubble's necklace for her teacher.</div>
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Squeak made a necklace for her much loved teacher too.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bubble has a smaller class size to Squeak, only 16 kids, and since they are older we wanted to make them a gift that was a little bit more messy and hands on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Both of our girls love play dough and it is also cost effective to make in bulk, so we decided on some Play Dough Snowman Kits as class gifts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We already had all the supplies we needed to make these kits apart from the black beads, so all up it cost us only $2! Even buying the supplies from scratch though they would cost around $10 for 20.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(we collected ours during school pick up time!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">*</span></b> <b>red felt to make scarves</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(we used plastic tubs we already had that were $2/pack of 8 at Hot Dollar, you could easily use Ziplock bags instead though)</span></div>
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The contents of our Snowman Kits.</div>
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* two small twigs for arms</div>
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* small piece of orange pipe cleaner as a carrot nose</div>
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* 10 black beads for eyes and mouth</div>
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*felt scarf </div>
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Kits as they were packaged up with a mini chocolate Santa included.</div>
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The tubs worked really well for transport and storage but ziplock bags would work just as well and be more cost effective.<br />
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A play dough snowman our girls made with one of the kits.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Little Squeak has quite a big preschool class with over 30 kids. For Christmas we wanted to make her friends something fun but also cost effective. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">These little gift bags ended up costing us only $11 to make 40 of them and include a little bit of Christmas fun for everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> <b>wild animal figurines</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(we bought ours at BigW where they are $1 for a bag of 8 animals)<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> <b>Christmas stickers</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(we bought ours at the Reject Shop, we only needed one $2 pack to do all 40 bags and still had plenty of stickers left over)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> <b>small chocolate Santas</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(you don't have to include these of course, there are plenty of alternatives like a balloon, crayon, small Christmas tree decoration etc...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> <b>clear gift bags</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(we already had these but you can buy them at most dollar shops for around $1-$2/pack)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>* </b></span><b>Animal bag toppers and stapler</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Please note: this post is not sponsored in any way, all companies listed are genuinely where we bought our supplies and only mentioned so you can find these items too!</b></span></div>
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The contents of our gift bags.</div>
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The wild animal figurines are from BigW, in their dollar section they have bags of 8 for $1, so we used 5 bags.</div>
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The stickers are from the Reject Shop, there are 40 large stickers on the back sheet which we cut out and we still had 60 smaller stickers left over.</div>
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In each gift bag we put an animal figurine, a chocolate Santa and a Christmas sticker, then we folded the tops down and stapled our bag toppers on.</div>
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In the photos you can see the front and back of the topper once it is folded in half (the giraffe side becomes the front and the elephant side becomes the back). </div>
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I have blurred Squeak's real name for the Blog but on the printables below have just left a space so you can put in your own child's name.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The 1st of December is rapidly approaching and the girls are very excited to start digging out their Advent Calendars ready to hang on the wall.<br />This year we will be reusing our felt circle <a href="http://alittlelearningfortwo.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/christmas-count-down-calendar.html" target="_blank"><b>Christmas Tree Advent</b></a> that we made years ago, the kids love it and it has become a Christmas tradition for us to hang it up every year.<br />Previous years we have also had a: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://alittlelearningfortwo.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/count-down-calendar-2.html" target="_blank"><b>Paper Bag Advent</b></a>, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://alittlelearningfortwo.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/christmas-cracker-count-down.html" target="_blank"><b>Christmas Cracker Advent</b></a>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://alittlelearningfortwo.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/christmas-count-down-whiteboard-bunting.html" target="_blank">Count Down Bunting</a></b>, and a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://alittlelearningfortwo.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/count-down-activity-list.html" target="_blank"><b>Count Down Activity Calendar</b></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> This year I wanted to come up with another reusable advent calendar that I could change up each December.<br />I decided to create a count down where the girls could collect different Christmas beads each day, eventually creating a necklace they could wear on Christmas Day or hang on our tree as a decoration. <br />It was easy and inexpensive to make and a little bit different! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bring on December.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> Christmas beads</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> plastic shot glasses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(we bought packs of 40 for $1.50 at Hot Dollar)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> tissue paper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> scissors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> string </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(we buy our red and white twine from <a href="http://www.sammyandlola.com.au/collections" target="_blank">Sammy&Lola</a>)</span> </span></div>
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Gather up your plastic shot glasses, beads and whatever else you want to put inside your advent calendar.</div>
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I struggled to find large Christmas beads that were inexpensive so I ended up buying packs of wine charms ($1.50 for 6 at Hot Dollar) and using wire cutters to snip the rings and remove the charms. </div>
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The beads were perfect and very cheap when sourced this way. For each calendar I used 12 of the large beads and also 12 smaller round beads which I bought in bulk on Ebay. </div>
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Spread out 24 of your shot glasses and add a Christmas bead to each one. </div>
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You can add other things too of course, I popped in the occasional chocolate Santa!</div>
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Cut your tissue paper into small squares and cover each shot glass using your tape to secure it. I thought this part was going to be quite tedious but surprisingly it took next to no time to do. </div>
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Once your glasses are covered arrange them on your backing board in whatever configuration you like.<br />
I decided to make a wreath shape and cut some green cardboard to go underneath to add some more definition and colour.</div>
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Using your glue gun attach each glass to your board. It only took a few dabs of glue on the underside of each one to secure them well. </div>
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I used our washi tape around the edges of our boards to give them a nicer more finished look then used some of our letter stickers to decorate them a little more.</div>
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Using your craft knife make small holes in each corner and thread through your string/twine so the calendar can be hung up.</div>
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I decided not to number the cups but to let the girls choose which ones they opened each day. Instead I attached a vinyl blackboard sticker to one corner where they could keep count of how many days were left to go. </div>
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Each day of December the girls can punch through the tissue paper covering one glass and find the bead inside to add to their Christmas necklace. </div>
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This calendar can easily be reused next year by recovering the glasses again.<br />
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We have made two of these calendars so they can have them in their rooms if they want to, you could use one board for multiple children though and just add more beads to each glass. </div>
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A beautiful necklace to wear on Christmas Day and a fun way to count down the month of December!</div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763815768532752018noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887282401320601093.post-66280752947097365982013-10-19T19:41:00.000-07:002013-10-19T19:41:14.717-07:00Learning About Community Helpers<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We are experiencing terrible fires here in NSW at the moment, at one stage late last week there were more than 100 blazes across our state. The fires are still burning now, some uncontained, while our fire services work tirelessly in awful weather conditions to save homes, wildlife and people.<br />Photos from the front lines of these fires are terrifying and yet there are hundreds and hundreds of fire crew right there, plenty of whom are volunteers, risking their lives to do what they can.<br />Community helpers are important. <br />Fire services, paramedics, police officers, SES - there are so many different types of people in our communities and teaching our girls about their role is something we have been focusing on for the last year.<br />There are many ways children can learn about the helpers in their community:<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">*</span> role play</b> - using dress ups, dolls, puppets and props to learn about what community helpers do.<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">*</span> borrow library books </b>from your local library, focus on one community service area a week and learn all you can about them.<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">*</span> use photos</b> from the net or take them yourself so that children can learn the different uniforms, workplaces and roles of people in their community.<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">*</span> learning symbols and signs</b> - ambulances, local Police, fire stations, postal services - they all have their own emblems and logos that children can learn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The main tool we have been using to teach our girls about the role of community helpers has been to visit these work places and meet the people who do these jobs. <br />We taught the girls about Fire and Rescue services last year and they decided they wanted to make pictures to say thank you to the fire fighters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We took their thank you messages and a box of cupcakes down to our local fire station and not only did they get to tell the firemen on duty "thank you" in person, they were welcomed inside the station, got to sit inside a fire truck and even got to man a fire hose. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They chatted to the fire men and got to see their uniforms, their workplace, their safety equipment, their truck and were given show bags full of information on how to stay safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was a wonderful experience for our girls and also, I realised, for the firemen. We have decided to make it a yearly trip to visit some of our local service centers to say thank you and show our appreciation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">*</span></b> call ahead. Some work places are suitable for children and some aren't. Some places are open at all times, and some are open temporarily. And of course the last thing you want to do is be in the way, so phoning ahead is always a good idea.</span></div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763815768532752018noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887282401320601093.post-30838039154076099222013-08-30T20:23:00.000-07:002013-08-30T20:23:03.182-07:00I Spy Book Costume<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Recently Bubble had Book Week at school and needed a costume for the Book Fair Parade. I asked her which book she would like to be and she answered me right away with her all time favourite series;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"I want to be an I Spy book!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I Spy books don't really have any characters, just a bunch of random objects on each page and a list of things to find. The costume ended up being very easy to make and Bubble loved it so much she wants to wear it again for Halloween - double score!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> plain white t-shirt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(I bought ours at KMart for $2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(we went through all of our drawers and toy boxes for small parts we didn't need any more, it was a great recycling project)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(we used Sharpie brand)</span></div>
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First, I ironed our plain t-shirt and then slid an old glass chopping board inside it, between the front and back of the shirt. This was to stop the glue seeping through and joining them together!</div>
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Using a laundry marker I wrote out a list of things for people to search for on the front of the shirt. This was a big hit, Bubble's friends really enjoyed finding all of the items. </div>
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To finish off her costume we found a detectives hat in the dress up section of a dollar shop and used foam stickers to write 'I Spy' across the front. I also hot glued a mini magnifying glass to the front which was a left over party favour.</div>
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Bubble carried her full sized magnifying glass for the parade and wore some pretend glasses because she wanted to look 'scientific' :)</div>
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The outfit came together really well and all of the objects stayed put for the whole day. I did put another shirt on underneath her I Spy one though so she could take it off during class, all of those little bits and pieces would have been a bit distracting!</div>
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763815768532752018noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887282401320601093.post-68402117414207149372013-08-29T04:48:00.000-07:002013-08-29T04:48:04.974-07:00Father's Day Gift Idea - Interview Cushion Cover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have been wracking my brain for a few weeks now trying to think of a gift idea for my Dad for Father's Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Unfortunately we live in another state to 'Poppy' so it had to be something that could be sent easily by mail. I also wanted it to be something personal from the girls, as well as something he could use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Obviously he will love anything our girls make for him, but I wanted something he could use day to day rather than something that would end up in a drawer or cupboard.<br />I have seen a lot of ideas for 'interviews' on Pinterest and loved the idea, this free printable from A Little Delightful was one of my favourites and the inspiration for some of our questions:<br /><a href="http://www.alittledelightful.com/2012/08/printables-fathers-day-menu-interview.html" target="_blank">A Little Delightful : Father's Day Printables</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Instead of putting our interview on paper though I thought I would put it on something that could be kept around the house and used. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A cushion was the perfect solution! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(we used Sharpie brand) </span></div>
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We started with a cushion cover which was blank on one side. </div>
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I chose this one (from BigW) because the colours will suit Poppy's home and I love the symbolism of the saying on the front.</div>
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I removed the cushion insert and inserted some scrap cardboard so the ink from the Sharpie wouldn't stain through to the other side. </div>
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Then I just used a laundry marker to write out our questions and add in the girls answers. </div>
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Their replies were hilarious and I know Poppy will love reading them. My favourite replies would have to be "He loves to wear: a moustache!" and "The best thing about Poppy is : he laughs and delivers packages to us". </div>
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I think he will also be particularly pleased at the guesses regarding his age :)</div>
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This activity was fun and easy to make and hopefully will be something Poppy can display in his house and smile at on a daily basis!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For their birthdays recently Bubble and Squeak received some instant snow from their Aunty and Uncle (our rellies know fun when they see it :D). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This week we used some to create a make believe snow cone stall which the girls had a blast with. Not only was it a great game for encouraging imaginative play but also provided plenty of sensory and fine motor experience as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><b>Side note</b> </i>- instant snow is heaps of fun to play with and non toxic, but it is not designed to be eaten. This activity was <b>well supervised</b>.</span></div>
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We set up a few tables in the backyard to create our pretend snow cone shop. </div>
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This is the instant snow we used, there are many different versions available though. The 'snow' starts as a powder that becomes a light fluffy substance once water is added.</div>
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Instant snow is bio degradable and we usually spread it on our lawn after use.</div>
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We made all this snow with just a few tablespoons of powder, then we put it in a tub with an ice cream scoop ready to create snow cones!</div>
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I set out a small tub full of different cups and paper cones for the girls to use. </div>
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Also on the table were some things to decorate the snow cones with; coloured water as syrup and pompoms as toppings. <br />I put the coloured water in a squeeze bottle and also in a jar with a baster to give the girls two different fine motor exercises. The pompoms were put in a jar with mini tongs to add more fine motor work.</div>
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We finished our little shop with some pop sticks and pretend money. </div>
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Open for business. The girls took turns being the shop keeper and the customer. We slowly built on their interactions and story lines, this sort of play is great for practicing living skills.</div>
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Bubble scooping out some instant snow to make a snow cone. </div>
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Using the squeeze bottle to make a raspberry snow cone. </div>
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The instant snow looked just like ice! </div>
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Squeak's turn to be shop keeper. </div>
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Paying with play money. Bubble was getting very precise with her coins and terribly upset when her little sister kept giving her the 'incorrect change' :)</div>
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This game is an adaptation of the barrier memory games I used to play with my friends when I was little except instead of taking an object away you make an imprint with one object and the other player has to guess what it was.<br />This game was not only fun for my girls but exercised a lot of skills like concentration, object and shape recognition, fine motor development/hand strengthening and basic matching.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WE USED:</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> a tray<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> lots of small objects<br />(you could use more or less depending on your childs interest and ability)<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> clay/play dough/sticky tack/theraputty<br />(anything that you can make an imprint in basically)<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*</b></span> a board or sheet of card to use as a barrier</div>
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I put a few different things that I thought would make distinctive prints in our tray and put it on the table with some sticky tack.</div>
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I held up the barrier and the girls took turns being the one to make the print and being the one to guess.<br />We used some thin plywood sheets we had in the garage as a barrier, you could use anything that blocks the other players view though (even a blindfold rather than a barrier.)</div>
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Squeak chose the fork on her first turn and made an imprint in the sticky tack by laying the tines flat.</div>
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When the barrier was lifted Bubble examined the print closely, turning it over in her hands and counting the lines that had been left behind. She worked out pretty quickly what had made the imprint!</div>
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In between each turn the girls squeezed and manipulated the tack to make it smooth again. This would be a great game to play with theraputty!<br />The girls did this activity for a long time, finding different ways to print the same objects and thinking up clues for each other when it was a tricky one to guess.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our little Squeak is not a fan of writing. Or drawing. Or doing anything with a pen on paper for longer than a minute, maybe two.<br />She has low muscle tone and painful joints, but there can be many reasons why children shy away from pen work. <br />Her wonderful OT recently suggested we try a slant board to take some pressure off her joints and create a more ergonomic position for writing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We gave the therapist's board a try and Squeak's concentration and perseverance skyrocketed, so I thought I'd have a go at making her one to use at home and also for the classroom next year.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b>What is a slant board?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A slant board is quite simply a board that has been set at an angle, usually with clips attached at the top to hold paper and exercise books. <br />There are plenty of benefits to using a slant board, some of which include:<br />* improved wrist flexion/hand positioning and support which usually leads to better pen grip.<br />* the slant of the board brings the paper closer to the child and makes it easier to see. This is especially beneficial for children with visual problems.<br />* assists in the action of applying correct force when writing and drawing. Children with low tone like Squeak find applying downward pressure especially difficult and tiring.<br />* improved eye tracking, especially when reading. The board puts the work surface at a better level for tracking which reduces strain.<br />* enables better posture while the child works. This can have all sorts of benefits such as better concentration and in Squeak's case, less strain on her muscles and joints.</span></div>
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I started out with one large sheet of corflute board. It was 5mm thick and 1200/900mm in dimension, which ended up being enough for me to make two slant boards.</div>
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First I cut the board straight down the middle.</div>
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To do this I first measured the mid point then used a ruler and whiteboard marker to draw a line. Then using a sharp craft knife I carefully cut through one side, then bent the board in half and sliced the knife through the other side so the two halves were separated.</div>
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I then stuck a strip of velcro on the bottom of the board (on what would be the 'front' side).</div>
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I then measured and drew lines across the board as above. You can make your slant board what ever dimensions you prefer, I wanted Squeak's work surface to be slighter larger than a sheet of paper so from left to right my sections measured: 35cm, 35cm, 8cm and 5cm. </div>
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The third section is the 'rise' part of the slant board so make it as high as you want the board to sit.<br />As you can see on the far left of the photo there was excess board which I removed and kept for future projects.</div>
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Using the craft knife again I carefully scored through the top layer of the board along all three lines. Use the ruler for stability if free hand cutting is proving tricky.</div>
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Once the lines are scored the board can be bent in those places but still holds together securely.</div>
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Your board should now look like this once all of the sections are cut and folded.</div>
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Now your board can hold together using the two strips of velcro.</div>
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The girls love using the slant boards and the thick corflute is perfect - easy to cut but rigid and strong to support weight.</div>
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If your table surface is slippery you can add anti slip sheets to the back (the rubbery anti slip mats you can buy to go inside cupboards and shelves at the dollar shop would be perfect) or rubber stoppers which you can buy in packs at hardware shops. </div>
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Ours sat on the table without slipping just fine though.</div>
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To help Squeak hold her paper steady while she works I attached a large clip at the top of the board using hot glue. It is large enough for her to open and close easily with her little fingers but small enough not to get in the way of her work. </div>
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These slant boards were so easy to make and for $7.50 each very cost effective!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This week we were lucky to have a family holiday which saw us escape the winter cold for a warmer part of the country - it was bliss! </span></div>
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I drew an outline of the dolls house in the wet sand while the girls told me what rooms went where. Then we scoured the beach together finding things to furnish our house with.</div>
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The girls loved finding bits and pieces for each room, they spent almost as much time creating the doll houses as they did playing with them. </div>
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Squeak making a beach rock lounge. </div>
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Our seashell toilet. </div>
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A TV and lounge made from coral. </div>
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The dining table with little shell chairs. </div>
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The mermaids particularly liked the shell bath. </div>
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Sea shell bed with a leaf for a blanket. </div>
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Bubble found a curled leaf to use as a sleeping bag. </div>
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Once the beachd house was finished we decided to add a swimming pool out the back.</div>
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