Posts Tagged ‘logs’

fishing pond

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

If you have been following our activites, you will be aware that we love our bush box which Donna’s husband, Colin, made for us.

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We have adapted it for many uses and placed it in various spots around the room.

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It’s wonderful for imaginary play.

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And it’s proven to be indispensable in our room!

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At this early stage of the year, we have made it into a fishing pond.

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The ground is green card and material, the water is blue card with plants, rocks and logs popped in for more interest.

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Lovely for just one or two players …

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or even more!

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Australian animals in sand

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Most years as a follow up to our Wild Action incursion, we take the children to the Healesville Sanctuary on an excursion. It is a wonderful place to see and learn about our unique Australian animals.

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One year we bought a set of Aussie animals from the Sanctuary shop and we pop them into all sorts of imaginary play areas, sometimes by themselves and sometimes with other creatures. Here we have used sand as a basis. The sand is great as it can be dry as we have it here, or wet so that the children can sculpt it however they like. Add a few logs, plants and rocks and there you have it!

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In keeping with our current interest in Australian animals we taught the children a new version (one we made up ourselves) of an old favorite song.

The original is:

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,

merry, merry king of the bush is he.

Laugh kookaburra laugh kookaburra,

Gay your life must be!

Our new version sung to the same tune is:

Crocodile sits in the muddy swamp,

Eating all the children – chomp, chomp, chomp.

Snap crocodile snap crocodile,

Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp!

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