Hello from Mrs Choudhury

 Keep the balloon up

Can you

• blow up some balloons
• keep batting the balloon into the air
• don't let the  balloons don’t touch the ground!
• make it more fun and turn it into a game or competition

Physical movement is very important for good health and development so exercise every day

Story time

Can you

• re-tell a traditional tale, acting it out using toys (Can you remember Goldilocks?)
• make a poster or make tickets and ask your family to come and watch
• film it on a device and watch back with your family

Make a sandwich with a grown up

Can you

• butter the bread?
• place the filling on carefully?
• cut your sandwich in half?

Make some play-dough

Can you get a bowl and mix in

• one cup of flour
• half a cup of salt
• half a cup of water

You can add one or two drops of food colouring if you want to.

This video shows you how to make play-dough:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=simple+playdough+recipe&source=lmns&safe=strict&hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwjtgIKCtp_oAhXPIRQKHY2_ALMQ_AUoAHoECAEQAA#kpvalbx=_ZqpvXqKKFeyP1fAPmqausA827

Help with the washing up

Box Modelling

Can you

• collect empty boxes and containers
• make a model
• decorate your model

Read a story

Make a Den

Can you

• collect cushions and blankets
• make a den
• go inside it and play

Bake with a grown up

Can you make biscuits or a cake?

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/iced-fairy-cakes

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easiest-ever-biscuits

Easter Chick Hand

Can you

• Trace around your hand with pen onto paper
• Cut out the shape of your hand
• Colour it in
• Draw eyes and a beak  

Easter Egg Hunt

Can you

• Draw pictures of Easter eggs and cut them out
• Hide them around your house
• Challenge your family to go and 'hunt' for them
• Did they find them all?
• Count to check!

Playing shops

Can you

• get some food and set up a shop in the kitchen or living room
• price each item using paper tags (numbers to 10)
• take it in turns to buy items from the shop
• pay with either real money or make your own paper coins.

Use this opportunity to talk about healthy eating too

Measuring and counting

Can you

• find plastic containers such as yogurt pots, milk bottles, cups
• find a pan and put it in your kitchen sink
• use the different pots to fill the pan, count how many pots it takes to fill it up e.g. how many yogurt pots?, how may cups?
• use words like "full", "empty", "half", "more", "less"

Make a scrap book

Can you

• make a book by folding a piece of paper in half
• find pictures, numbers and words and letters in old news papers and magazines
• cut them out and stick them into your book
• share your scrap book with someone in your family and talk about what you have stuck inside

You could make scrap books of different things e.g. an animal scrap book, a number scrap book, a colour scrap book

Measuring hands

Can you

• on paper, draw around the hands of people in your family
• cut the hands out

Put them in order from biggest to smallest

Help to tidy and clean

Make a cress family

You need cress seed and empty egg shells or yogurt pots

Can you

• draw a face on a yogurt post or egg shell
• put wet tissue/cotton wool into the yogurt pot or egg shell
• sprinkle on some cress seeds
• put them on a window sill to grow

Dance with your family

Play Kim’s Game

Play this game with lots of people from your family

Can you

• collect 7 objects from around the home
• get a small towel or scarf
• show your family your 7 objects
• hide them with the towel or scarf
• secretly take one object away
• show your family the 6 objects that are left
• can they guess what you have taken

Peg out some washing

Pair up socks

Can you

• collect the socks that have been washed
• match them up
• give them out to your family

Set the table for your family

Sorting Washing

Can you

• Help your parent to empty the washing machine
• Sort the washing items by colour
• Count the clothes as you take them out

Easter Egg Mosaic

Can you 

• Cut different coloured paper into small pieces (use wrappers, old newspapers or junk mail adverts)
• Cut two egg shapes out of white paper
• Glue the pieces of paper onto the egg shapes

This is a good activity for developing scissor skills!