What might appear to be perfectly mundane to you may create deep impressions on your children that last for many years to come.Īs snow blankets the country, there is so much fun to be had outdoors with your littles ones, here are just a few ideas. Seeing trains is an outing in itself for your little ones. See if you can see signals and explain what they mean. Make the noises that a train makes, point out and mimic the clickety-clack that the carriages make as they pass over joins in the rails. Explain how lots of people can travel on a train. Talk with your little ones about what they are and what they do. If you live near a railway line or a station, take the children out for a walk and wait at a point where you can spot some trains. Real trains can bring excitement to young children - they will point out trains as they pass over a bridge in the distance, or when they see them from a car window. Children enjoy the sense of order that making a train offers. Trains have long played an important role in popular culture, first with books and then with television programmes featuring anthropomorphic trains such as Thomas the Tank Engine, Ivor the Engine and Chuggington. Young children, especially boys but also girls, enjoy lining up carriages into a train and pulling it along the floor or along a railway track. Toy trains are almost as old as the railways themselves. There's something about trains that just captivates young children, a fascination that can even last well beyond childhood! What is it about trains that children find so fascinating? When the music starts each child must fly like bugs around the chairs and when the music stops they must find a leaf to land on. Landing on Leaves: Draw a large leaf for each child and get them to colour it in. Loop a long string to the top of the pot and you have a garden puppet! Why not put on a show?! Paint on faces using poster paints, and glue or tape on hands and feet made from twigs or rope. Mr and Mrs Pots: Turn empty flower pots into flower pot people. Blindfold each child and get them to throw the bee and see who gets nearest to the centre of the flower! Draw a large sunflower outdoors with pavement chalk. They then have to go off in pairs and them.īee Landing: Draw a small bee (or find a picture of one) and stick it to some blue tack or play dough to give it weight. Hunt a Bug: This is a scavenger hunt game game which is easy and fun! Each child gets a list of five things (draw each one) they need to find: a branch, a red curly leaf, a pine cone, a dandelion flower, a feather etc. Hang it up and blindfold the children getting them to try and stick their sticker nearest to the yellow centre of the daisy. Draw a big daisy flower with a stalk and leaves on wallpaper. Pin the Bug on the Daisy: This is a version of pin the tail on the donkey only using a big drawing of a flower and some stickers. Here are some fun games to play outdoors:. As well as outdoor games, try taking some of your children's favourite puzzles and board games to play outside too - being outside adds another new dimension to the games. When the weather permits, spend time with the children outdoors, if you don't have a garden, taken them along to a park.
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