Use old containers like Pringle cylinders to play Pop goes the Weasle! Just squeeze the sides with the lid on and – pop it will come flying off. Many can be decorated and used to play rolling to each other games or… filled with some dry beans or seeds to make a shaker…. or youContinue reading “Popping containers !”
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Rhythms on Stones
Here is a nice simple idea for making a game for practising rhythms. All you need are some pebbles and a marker pen.
Make a lantern
with a glass jar and lantern songs to sing when it’s lit !
Slow Snail and Fast Mice songs!
Songs about fast and slow animals
Candle making
In an old baked bean or other tin put wax from old candles. Then place this in an old saucepan filled with water that is heated up. This melts the wax. When you have melted it dip in an ordinary white candle and dip it into the hot wax. This gives it a red coating.Continue reading “Candle making”
Nursery Rhymes audio
I use the Kingfisher nursery rhyme book but there are lots of others to choose from !
Midsummer Rounds to Learn
Making a simple Jack in a Box
Jack in the box jumps up like thisJack in the box jump up tallWhere do you think our jack is hidingPeekaboo songsGoodbye
Teddy Bear picnic song
Rhythm names
A few more advanced rhythms are introduced in this video like Tim- ka and Te ti-ka and Te-ta-te!
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