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Children talk about how they and others show feelings.

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Children talk about how they and others show feelings.

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To safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

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To safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

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Paint and decorate your own monkey!

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Red Ted Art - Make crafting with kids easy & fun

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The Handprint Animal Alphabet series continues with M... There could be NO OTHER than M for Monkey. Not a single other animal was being entertained my Red Ted. Monkey it is.

Worried our handprint monkey would look like our Gorilla, I had a quick look to see what other's made and we saw Fun Handprint Art's monkey. That was it. Red Ted wanted it!

Here it is:

To make your monkey paint the whole hand in a uniform colour. Then cut out details, such as muzzle, feet and ears. Red Ted REALLY wanted some leaves as per the "original". So cut some too. We used felt, but you can use card, funky foam or paint them on!

Red Ted's monkey!

Pip Squeak decided to add some more monkeys of her own. Bless.

Check out the rest of our alphabet to date!

And here is now the complete Animal Handprint Alphabe t:

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Handprint Alphabet - M for Monkey - Red Ted Art - Make crafting with kids easy & fun

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The Handprint Animal Alphabet series continues with M... There could be NO OTHER than M for Monkey. Not a single other animal was being entertained my Red Ted. Monkey it is. Worried our handprint monkey would look like our Gorilla, I had a quick look to see what other's made and we saw Fun Handprint ...

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Handles tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.

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Handles tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.

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Did you know that you can make your own puzzle? 

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Did you know that you can make your own puzzle? 

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Draw a picture on the template, then cut it out and ask your grown up to have a go at putting it together!

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Uses talk to organize, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events.

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Uses talk to organize, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events.

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Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity and position. 

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Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity and position. 

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Get weighing in the kitchen!

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Trying to keep all the Picklebums entertained on a day when it is either too hot or too wet to go outside (and we've had both since new years!) isn't always easy. But sometimes I forget the joy of simple things...

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The first time we put together a jungle play dough kit it was for my big boy's fourth birthday.

It was the beginning of my kids absolute passion for play dough, and his sisters collected all kinds of green items (green was/is his favourite colour) and helped to make play dough and wrapped it all up as their birthday present to Morgan. He LOVED it.

Since then we've made a couple of jungle play dough kits, as birthday presents, and just for fun.

Putting together a play dough kit is easy. You can get super fancy and buy all kinds of fabulous accessories, but I bet you can find a whole heap of great little items to add from around the house.

All of the items we used for our jungle play dough kit were things we already had, or that we collected from the garden.

We used:

You could also use :

sticks

leaves

cut up green paper or plastic

pipe cleaners

pom poms

glass or plastic gems

tooth picks

craft sticks

large beans

pine cones

Use your imagination or ask the kids what they think would be good for a jungle play dough.

Now that you have the accessories you need some dough!

We used our easy microwave play dough recipe to make one batch of plain dough. We coloured 3/4 of the dough green and 1/4 a dark greeny blue. Then we swirled some of the green play dough into the blue to make a cool swirly, greeny, bluey, jungley colour.
We also made some grassy dough.
To make the grass dough use the easy microwave play dough recipe (or your favourite play dough recipe), and add a tiny amount of green colouring to make a light green dough.

Once the dough has finished cooking cut up some grass into tiny pieces using some scissors. You'll need about a cup of cut up grass to make the dough.

When the dough has cooled a little, sprinkle the grass onto your work surface and roll the dough in the grass, kneading and squishing until all the grass is mixed in.

Once we had some fun accessories and some play dough, all we needed to do was to collect some jungle animals.

We had a quick google to find out which of our animals might actually live in the jungle and we were ready to play.

Morgan is much older now, and while he hasn't gotten any play dough kits for his recent birthdays, he still had loads of fun playing with this new jungle play dough invitation to play that his little brother and I put together.

It seems the play dough love never truly dies, no matter how old you get!

We first shared this idea back in 2011. We have edited and updated the content and images, but the basic ideas are the same and you may will see comments from the original post.

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The first time we put together a jungle play dough kit it was for my big boy's fourth birthday. It was the beginning of my kids absolute passion for play dough, and his sisters collected all kinds of green items (green was/is his favourite colour) and helped to make play dough and wrapped it all up as their birthday present to Morgan.

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Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.

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Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.

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Take a sheet of paper, fold it as the instructions and write your own story about what the monkey did next.

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Uses ICT hardware to interact with age-appropriate computer software. 

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Uses ICT hardware to interact with age-appropriate computer software. 

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Help the monkey match the words to the picture

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Talk to your grown about this picture. What is happening? Where is he going? Where is this?