Nursery
We have a poloroid i-zone
camera and we take pictures of all the kids, then we make little stars
and stick the pictures on the stars. We tape them up on the
door eye-level to the kids and then they look for their picture and bring
it into nursery and put it on the wall. They love to
look at their picture and all of their friends who didn't make it to nursery
that week.
We make musical toys sometimes
with the kids. Of course there are certain things they can't do,
but we help and they love it. We put on some music and they sing, dance,
whatever! Here's some of the ones we do.
1. Paper Shakers - roll
butcher paper (about 12 inches long) as much paper as you want. Tape
it and cut it down from the top to the middle. Kids love to shake
these.
2. Tube horn - This one
is easy - save tubes from paper towels, tin foil, toilet paper etc.
3. Drums - Quaker Oats containers
- tape the lid down
4. Shakers - Fill any container
with anything. Another one that they love to make and use.
5. Bells - Sew Christmas
jingle bells to fabric or felt and glue to dowels.
6. Clackers - cut dowels
into 4-5 inch pieces.
7. Cymbals - Tin pie plates
with thin rope or string tied through the center.
Have fun!
We made some handy Ziploc
Books for our Nursery. You can make them to go with any subject you
want to focus on. Makes pages that you want to use. Pictures glued
to contuction paper etc. Cut a little smaller than a quart size baggie.
Slip "pages" inside the open end of the baggie and sew a double row of
stitches in the opposite end that opens. When you want to "read"
the book open the zip lock side slip the baggie back away from the book.
When you are done slip it back, seal and put away. They are easy
to do and are wonderful for the kids.
This
idea is not new or orginal but we have great fun every week playing "Going
on a Bear Hunt" with the nursery kids. Not only do we come to a wheat field
or climb a wide tree, but they think up all kinds of fun things to do while
we are on our bear hunt.
