Category: School Activities

Cooking Activity – Chocolate Easter Nests

These lovely nests are colourful, simple to make and are tasty! They’re also quick to put together and look great. This is a fun activity that both adults and children will enjoy doing while learning different mathematical and science concepts.

Ingredients:

Makes 12 nests

• 200g chocolate

• 12 paper cupcake cases

• 100g cornflakes

• A knife

• 75g butter

• A saucepan

• 4 tbsp golden syrup

• A wooden spoon

• 24 chocolate eggs

• A muffin tray

Get your ingredients together. Then ask your child: ‘how do we weigh the ingredients?’, or: ‘what do we use to weigh the ingredients?’. Explain to the children the importance of using  scales for measuring. To make the activity more challenging you can also compare different weights and introduce the concepts of heavy and light.

Break the chocolate into chunks and chop the butter into cubes. With the help of an adult, put the chocolate, butter and golden syrup into the saucepan and melt together over a low heat, stirring frequently. Ask the children what they think will happen to the chocolate and butter once you put them on the stove? (They melt because of the heat from the fire).

Let the melted chocolate mixture cool for a couple of minutes and then pour over the cornflakes. Mix the chocolate and cornflakes together.

Place the paper cupcake cases into the muffin tray. Ask the children to count the cupcake cases while putting them in the muffin tray. Help the children spoon some chocolate cornflakes mixture into each case.

Place the chocolate eggs on the top of each nest. The adult can tell the child or write a number on a piece of paper of how many eggs to put in each nest and child will do so while counting. This helps to improve number recognition and value.

Leave to set and then…ENJOY!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all the love and happiness that only Easter can bring! Have a joyous celebration with your family!

 Ms Maria Camilleri K 2.2

 

Colour Sorting Activity

Resources:

• Toilet paper rolls
• Paint
• Pompoms
• Child friendly tweezers (Optional)

Activity:

• Start by painting each toilet paper roll in a different colour. It is up to you on how many different colours you want to use.
• Once they are dry, provide pompoms of the same colour of the toilet paper rolls and mix all the different coloured pompoms.
• This activity can be done in 2 different ways. Either:
• Let your child choose a coloured pompom and, after asking him/her what colour it is, encourage him/her to put it in the matching toilet paper roll.

OR

• Ask your child to pick a pompom, from a colour you have chosen, and then put it in the matching toilet paper roll.

From this activity your child will improve his/her colour recognition and his/her hand eye co-ordination.

* In order to reinforce your child’s pincer grasp you can encourage him/her to pick up the pompoms with tweezers.

Ms Chanice K1.11

Listening and Remembering Sounds

This activity is aimed to encourage the children to distinguish between everyday sounds and to identify that different objects make different sounds.

Loud and soft sounds

Use different objects such as toys, utensils, whistles, keys etc. and ask your child which object they think will make the loudest sound and which will make the softest sound. After identifying the different sounds, the objects make, encourage your child to sort them out.

Magical sound box

One by one put between four and six familiar noisy objects (for example a set of keys, crisp packet, squeaky toy, zip, coins etc.) in a box, pausing to name them, and demonstrate the sound each object makes, before putting them in the box. Then, take an object out of the box, hide it, and make a noise with it. Encourage your child to tell you what s/he has heard and to guess what the object is from the sound it makes.

Socks/bottles and Shakers

Partially fill non-transparent plastic bottles or the toes of socks with noisy materials such as rice, pebbles, marbles, shells, coins, etc. Ask the children to shake the bottles and identify what is inside the bottle from the sound the items in the bottle make. When using socks, apart from shaking them to hear the sound, encourage your child to feel the materials in the socks and ask him/her to talk about what s/he is feeling and guess what is inside. When they guess the item (e.g. shells or pebbles) you can extend the activity by asking questions such as: ‘Where can we find shells or pebbles?’.                      

Ms Rodianne K2.1