The Poffley Education Resource page

Making and weaving a paper heart

This craft activity has very simple materials but takes a bit of practice . Persevere and you will succeed . All you need is coloured paper of any type – (choose two colours) and a pair of scissors.

These sweet hearts make a lovely gift for birthdays, Easter, Mother’s day, in fact any celebration.

You can fill it with chocolates or other small gifts even money!

How to make Bread and Hot Cross Buns

Making bread is very rewarding and is well worth doing regularly. Your family and friends will appreciate you making the effort. My method practised over many years does not require scales and precise measuring so you will find the more you do it the quicker the whole process will be.

The whole family can enjoy making bread and you will find fresh bread makes a wonderful gift too!

Bread recipe ingredients

White flour 3/4 of a packet of a 1.5 kg bag
2 sachets of quick dried yeast
1/2 a teaspoon of salt
1 litre of warm milk / water
tablespoon of honey ( or sugar)
2 eggs
mixed dried fruit for Hot cross buns
cinnamon for hot cross buns

Method

Mix the dry ingredients ( add cinnamon to a hot cross bun mixture ) in a big bowl
Mix everything else in and stir
Brush your surface with flour – tip out the mixture – fold it over and into itself with flour on your hands.
Knead it vigorously for 5 minutes and then make shapes- e.g. make plaits or roll shapes
Leave to rise for 30 minutes ( if you are not in a rush! )
Bake in hot oven 220 degrees until brown ( approx 35 minutes)
You can test if it is done if when you tap the bottom of a loaf and it makes a knocking sound
When cooked turn it upside down

Video: How to blow out an egg

Video: Kneading and shaping a platt and hot cross buns

Video : How to decorate and hang your blown out egg shell

So they we are – if you have never made bread before then I hope you enjoyed it !

Little KNITTING Projects

How to Cast on & How to KNIT!

CASTING OFF

How to Make a Knitted Square into a BUNNY !

How to make a knitted square into a CHICK!

How to make the CHICK’s crown, eye and tail!

I hope you have fun!

How to make a simple bird feeder

Here are the instructions for building a simple bird feeder using basic household things :

You need a

pair of scissors,

one transparent 1 litre plastic bottle,

string or strong wool,

three sticks or twigs (2x the width of the bottle)

Bird seed or other bird food

Take the plastic bottle and make holes opposite each other for the sticks to go through. Position them as seen in this photo.

Then 1.5 cm above each hole make an additional hole 1cm diameter. These are the access holes for the birds to the food so don’t make them too big.

So you will have a total of 6 holes !

Now insert one stick though the stick holes of each section .

Tie a length of string around the base of the cap section of the bottle

So now fill it with bird food and put the cap on to prevent rain getting in . Then you can hang it in your garden. I would put it somewhere you can see it from your kitchen or living room because then you can have great fun bird watching while you have lunch or tea!

Hope you enjoy becoming an ornithologist.

Contributed by Nathanael Poffley

Tiddely Pom Easter 1 April 2020

Hello, Tiddely Pom is a music programme for young children under 7 that I have been running for over 30 years. Through the year you’ll find lots of songs to sing and crafts to make but also musical activities that will help your little one establish good musical foundations.

I am a mum of 7 children who with my husband taught all of them at home up to the age of 13.

I hope you will find resources and ideas useful.

A lovely round we could sing together is – Hi Bonjour, Shalom, Gutentag….

And here’s a tune I’m sure you’ll know : If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.

Now let’s do some rhythm names together

Here is some pussy willow in the Spring sunshine

CRAFT video – how to make an Easter Cross with twigs and wool

See you next time.

Some pictures of Rebekka in India recently

Making and weaving a paper heart

These sweet hearts make a lovely gift for birthdays, Easter, Mother’s day, in fact any celebration.

You can fill it with chocolates or other small gifts even money!

Artists 61-70

Dates can be learnt more easily if they are linked to a visual image such as the major memory system. Look back at Artists 1-10 to see how this is done. Note you have a key word like CHAT which is your word hook. CHAT is number 61 because CH stands for 6 and T stands for 1. Now use your imagination to place CHAT in the painting so you can link it to number 61 in your list of 100 artists. I think of the teeth of the dying in Gericault’s painting ‘the raft of the Medusa’. Do the same with the word CHAIN and so on……..

61 CHAT

GERICAULT

Get a Paramedic To

…. the Forlorn On a Raft

1791

1824

62 CHAIN

COROT

Corot Paints Chains

Fountain Gallery Louvre

1796

1875

63 CHIME

DELACROIX

Coughing Barricaded French

Fire Choking Muskets

1798

1863

64 CHAIR

MILLET

Figures Dig Area

For Cabbage Leaves

1814

1875

65 CELLO

COURBET

Every Day Poverty

For Gustav Courbet

1819

1877

66 CHA CHA

Holman HUNT

First Hunt Knocks

Brighter Than Sunshine

1827

1910

67 CHECK

BOCKLIN

Found in a Cave

Bocklin’s Swiss Watch

1775

1901

68 CHAFF

PISSARO

Fathered Impressionist Team

Pissaro’s Soft Manner

1831

1903

69 CHAP

MANET

a Familiar Woman Nude!

French Foaming Mouths

1832

1883

70 CASE

DEGAS

Degas Found Women Ravishing

at Ballet Dance Class

1834

1917

Here are some links to great talks from the National gallery and other sources of the artists above.

Artists 51-60

Dates can be learnt more easily if they are linked to a visual image such as the major memory system. Look back at Artists 1-10 to see how this is done. Note you have a key word like LAD which is your word hook. LAD is number 51 because L stands for 5 and D stands for 1. Now use your imagination to place a LAD in the painting so you can link it to number 51 in your list of 100 artists. Do the same with the word LANE and so on……..

51 LAD

FRAGONARD

Count’s Main Enemy ..

…. Fragonard’s Sexy Chouchou

1732

1806

52 LANE

WRIGHT of DERBY

Cruel Man Wright

Kills Bird Cruelly

1734

1797

Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’ An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump 1768 Oil on canvas, 183 × 244 cm Presented by Edward Tyrrell, 1863 NG725 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/NG725

53 LAMB

GOYA

Goya’s War, Shameless

Futility In Fighting

1746

1828

54 LAIR

DAVID

Grave Arm Falls

Very Nasty Letter

1748

1825

55 LILLY

BLAKE

Golden William’s Compass

Father Instantly Creates

1757

1827

56 LASH

FREDERICK

Cataclysmic Golden Orange

Fiery Red Sunset

1774

1840

57 LAKE

TURNER

Covent Garden London

Fantastically Lit Turner

1775

1851

58 LARVA

CONSTABLE

Constables Clueless Sheep

Follow Mill Cart

1776

1837

59 LAB

INGRES

Get Vertebrae Soap

For Chique Concubine

1780

1867

60 CHASE

COTMAN

Cotman Fell In

a Victorian Stream ! Oh No !

1782

1802

Here are some links to great talks from the National gallery and other sources of the artists above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I45wiOoCWdI

Artists 41 -50

Dates can be learnt more easily if they are linked to a visual image such as the major memory system. Look back at Artists 1-10 to see how this is done. Note you have a key word like RAT which is your word hook. Rat is number 41 because R stands for 4 and T stands for 1. Now use your imagination to place a RAT in the painting so you can link it to number 41 in your list of 100 artists. Do the same with the word RAIN and so on……..

41 RAT

VERMEER

Jan’s Woman’s not….

… Shy, Clavichord Lesson

1632

1675