This week we received some parcels and what better way to repurpose and reuse the cardboard boxes than to bring them out to our beautiful outdoor decking area and create some artwork. First, we discussed what colours we wanted to use, then we sat around and talked about what we were all going to paint, we had lots of different ideas, from rainbows to our families, and even painting our own …
Baldivis South Activities
Sonas Baldivis South – Hopscotch
At Baldivis South we have been checking our developmental milestones and developing our gross motor and physical skills. Last week we did this by creating our own Hopscotch outside on our veranda. We used our turn taking skills as well as our number recognition, while hopping, jumping and skipping through. Hopscotch is great for developing our body control, strength, balance and …
Sonas Baldivis South – Bubble Painting
This week we have created some beautiful bubble art. Bubble art helps us to develop more than our creativity, it helps us to encourage experimentation and problem-solving skills too. We can also use our fine motor skills, to grasp the straw between our fingers and to lower the paper on top of the bubbles, to create our artwork. We talked about what different colours we could see, …
Sonas Baldivis South – Kids in the Kitchen
We have enjoyed participating with kids in the kitchen. We have been practising our measuring, pouring and hand eye coordination skills, when adding the various ingredients to the bowl to create our herb and cheese scones. The children then took turns to mix the ingredients together, rolling out the dough and cutting the scones out to cook. Everyone was so excited for …
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Sonas Baldivis South – Nature Painting
Last week, we spent lots of time in our beautiful garden, exploring the different plants that we have. The children began collecting various leave in a bucket, adding sand from the sandpit and flowers. We then brought them over to our outdoor art area, to add the to our paintings and explore different ways that we could use them to create art. …