Little Treasures

                     
I found a new home business in Burnaby last week when I was attending a conference.

It’s called Little Treasures and they create ‘invitations’ in a kit.

“Discover how natural and real materials can be used

in creative ways for children.”

                      
I purchased three of their kits and could have bought more but finally took control of myself.

The kits are beautiful, attractive and I just wanted to get my hands on them.
                      
I believe in using real materials with children, it adds authenticity to their play.  Using natural materials, wood, bamboo, glass, etc.  lends to the sensory exploration in play. 

Plus it is aesthetically pleasing.

I can’t wait for them to have their website up and running.

Waiting for Fall

I wrote a post at the beginning of May about planting sunflower and pumpkin seeds with our big buddies.

It took quite a while for the seeds to sprout.  After a few had popped through we moved them to the greenhouse.

That helped.

When they were big enough to transfer we prepared the soil.

Once ready, the plants were added.

Then watered.  

The fun part.

   

Don’t forget about the sunflowers.

We’ve been visiting them a couple times a week to water.

  

Can’t wait till September to see them again.

S’Mores by the Fire

Camping is so much fun, even indoors.

Sitting around the campfire and roasting marshmallows is a favourite.
Especially one of mine.

              

And many of the children too.

But more than just roasting marshmallows is making s’mores. Yum!

Light brown fun foam for the graham crackers, dark brown for the chocolate and white playdough for the marshmallow.

  

Once the s’more was assembled they took it to the fire pit and put it on the stick to roast.

   
Careful they don’t burn.


 

Play Trays Final Week

 Our last week of school and here are our trays.

Our last play with marbles for the year.

Spinning Tops

      

Eye droppers, coloured water and little cube trays

Finally, little bears and furniture.

Snail Release

It’s been another successful year growing our snail garden.

But the time arrived to let them go.

We took them to the same nature park that we released our tadpoles.

Interestingly the snails wouldn’t leave their garden.

Couldn’t have been because the children were so well trained to put them back into the garden, when the snails got to the top, that they didn’t have a chance to leave????

We went for a walk and came back to check if they were gone.

    

We found only one part way out.

We had to help the others.

Then they were on their way.

Play Trays Week 21

The first tray contains flowers to button onto their stems.

Great practice unbuttoning and then buttoning.

The second tray has a fishing game.

You wind it up then try to catch a fish as it spins around.

The fish are opening and closing their mouths.

It took a lot of patience to catch a fish.

It came with two little fishing rods,  perfect for friends to fish together.

Fishing Indoors

We’ve been fishing for crabs, octopus, sea turtles and big and little fishes.

Deep in the ocean, through the water bubbles and sea weed.

The little fishing rods have magnets on the ends and each little fish has a metal nail securely in it.

Some that got away.

Part of the fun has been playing with the water bubbles 

and sea weed 

hanging around the ocean.

    

Exploring the water bubbles.

Touching and running through them.

   

Reaching, stretching, grabbing and peeking through.