Practical life exercises-2

I have few more practical life exercise  materials  which playgroup enjoy.  I rotate the exercise materials  and the place too because the playgroup  get easily bored and try hands on every exercise. Sometimes I see many  trays out from the self. They are learning  to use one exercise  at a time.  Playgroups are enrolled year round  so whenever there is a new child we  have the materials mixed up.
Most of the time they work separately but they sit and observe when I introduce a new exercise.

For rolling and unrolling
 I have two types of mat one thick and quite easy to roll and other thin for fine rolling. They  also use these  mats for different exercises. 

Thick mat

Thin mat

Basket for keeping mats

Opening and closing bottles.
Only four or five bottles were not enough to keep them busy so I made eight. They have many questions while doing this exercise like"Where did you get this bottle?" ,"What do you put in it?","Whose is it?", "Where is the lid?" One child who did not find the exact  lid said  its the ghost who took it. Listening to them is a great fun.

Dressing Frames
The dressing frame stand is a bit high for the playgroup and little inconvenient because frames fall while they try to take one out. The wooden pegs for holding the frames are not  strong so the stand is actually a show piece now.   I  keep only three frames on the shelf out of twelve. The stand is in the older children's room.

Lacing
I have extra materials for lacing,

Bead stringing
 I  have plastic and wooden  beads of  different shapes. Children prefer the plastic ones which are  easy to
string. The wooden beads are not smooth from inside so stringing requires little more force. Few trays  have  strings tied on each side so that two children can string together. Sometimes they tell us to make garland.

Wooden beads

Christmas craft-2

Our Christmas craft is over. We made few things like Christmas trees and  wreaths. Playgroup painted green using cotton but it became soggy  so the next day  I gave the Nursery  little cubes of sponge. The sponge soaked paint and children could dab on paint for long. I used cloths pin for holding sponge. The result with sponge was quite good. Sponge  can be washed and dried for next use.

Below you see the sponge in the left bowl and soggy cotton in the right.

The older group used the paper colored by their junior for making wreath.  I told that  wreath  are hung on  the front  doors as a sign of welcome. In Nepal  we use marigold  and chrysanthemum  garland to decorate our doorways and windows  wishing  for prosperity and well being.

 The only thing they knew while making wreath  was pistachio.  Although the wreaths look similar  I feel a lot of  hard has been put on this craft.

 Wreath made  by different groups.

Pistachio seed used for poinsettia wreath

Pistachio seed  colored red for berries

Angry Bird Project- Art and craft

          This years third parent teachers meeting is scheduled on coming Friday.
Lower and Upper Kindergarten are busy with  their craft work. We chose Angry Birds Project.

1. Paper Mache balloon base for Angry Birds

 

2.  Pencil holder made from toilet paper roll

3.  Book marker-Thin cardboard strips were cut and covered with construction paper. Different Angry Birds      faces were made, cut and pasted. They wrote " Please use book mark". I hope they learn to use it.

4. Piggy Bank- Six pieces of cardboard  squares were pasted on construction  paper to make a cube.

5. Ice cream cones- We can also see the yellow  crown behind the cones. 

6. Angry Birds masks on display. 

    Shapes were made from the masks inside the book. Children used different construction paper to make masks.