Birds Are Back

Spring is here and the boys are noticing the birds visiting our garden.

I made these felt finger puppets for them.

These are 3 common visitors.

I found this on Ebay. Big Seed likes to sort numbers

or play snap.

This is a lovely book about UK garden birds for children.

They both like finding the birds that they are familiar with.

I have started to get back into themes on my shelves.

Things have been a bit slow lately but as the days get longer,

Big Seed is more engaged after school.

Spring Nature Prints

Big Seed went to the park and collected a bucket of Spring treasures.

He is really into mixing colours..especially orange.

Orange, orange, orange.

Here are a few things he collected ...

And then he printed with them, exploring shape, texture and colour.

And then... of course

to finish off...

hands!

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Spring Activities

This is what we are choosing from on our new shelves:

Sorting Spring flowers.

I found images on Google of crocuses, daffodils, hyacinths, snowdrops and tulips.

We are also growing these in our garden.

This can be as easy or as complicated as you want to make it.

Sorting shapes.

This came from Montessori Print Shop and they are nice pictures.

This is a game called Insey Wincey Spider for learning about shapes.

From Orchard games.

I laminated this sheet of spring flowers and numbers he finds hard to write to use with a wipeable pen.

Movable alphabet.

3 letter words that rhyme with hat.

Imaginative play with pond scenes.

Magic Painting books- paint with water only.

Remember them?

Really toddler friendly.

This is left over from Valentines.

I sewed a heart from felt and sewed on large heart buttons.

He has to put the small coloured felt hearts on the buttons,

or thread them onto the ribbon.

Inspired by Counting Coconuts.

Match the clothes on the teddies.

Wooden puzzle.

(A gift)

Feed the coins in the money box.

Little Seed loves this.

Spooning tulip flowers into an ice cube tray.

He has to spoon 3 into each compartment.

Little Seed likes this too.

Nice flowers from Ebay.

They make a nice tinkling sound in the ramekin.

Pouring real beans.

Sandpaper numerals with a notebook and crayon in the basket

(which you can't see as it was being used.)

Sound shakers.

We are also doing lots of Spring art, reading Spring themed books,

and sowing lots of seeds too.

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3 Spring Flower Pictures

Our new topic is Spring,

so to kick off we used our garden as inspiration:

Hyacinths using tissue paper balls.

Snowdrops using fingerprints.

Precut felt shapes: had to be arranged and stuck to make a tulip.

Then the parts of the flower were named.

Big Seed wanted to make his own tulip.

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Spring Fairies

Look who has come to our table...

2 gorgeous spring seed fairies.

The large one has a plaited necklace with a seed stuck on it.

The tutorial to make these flower fairies is here at Wee Folk Art.

Here they are on our spring table...

with snail shells, fossils, plasticine spirals

and a plasticine rainbow amongst other things.