Activities

Spring Home Activities

March 30, 2021March 26, 2021 PolkaDots Nursery

This term at Cresswood we’ve been learning all about “Weather”!

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We’ve gathered learning suggestions, songs, and fun activities for you to keep learning at home with your child

Weather Activity Sheet Read now!

Questionnaire

Photographer Questionnaire

February 10, 2021February 11, 2021 PolkaDots Nursery

What did you think of our photographer?

PolkaDots would really like to know what you thought of our mini photo-shoot!

If you have two minutes to answer a few questions, your answers will really help us when organizing future visits from people like Jo at Jampics

Photographer Questionnaire

Thanks for taking the time to help PolkaDots!

Activities

No-Cook Playdough Recipe

December 17, 2020December 16, 2020 PolkaDots Nursery

Easy-Peasy Make Your Own Playdough

We’ve got a playdough recipe you can make at home and inspiration for lots of fun ideas to try…

Here’s a simple recipe from the lovely people at The Imagination Tree. There’s zero cooking and minimal prep – in fact, you can make it in 5 minutes flat!

What you’ll need…

2 cups plain flour
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 cup salt
2 tablespoons cream of tartar
1 to 1.5 cups boiling water
gel food colouring

How to make no-cook playdough…

Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl
Add food colouring to the boiling water
Add the boiling water to the dry ingredients, little by little
Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky dough
Allow to cool, then take out of the bowl to knead vigorously for a couple of minutes until all the stickiness has gone
If it’s still a little sticky just add a bit more flour

Why not try… The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

A PolkaDots favourite, the Very Hungry Caterpillar has lots of playdough possibilities! The Imagination Tree website gave us ideas for playdough storytelling.

You can try making 1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums… How many of the caterpillar’s vegetables can you make from playdough at home?

And once you’ve made all those tasty vegetables, you’ll have to make a very Very Hungry caterpillar to eat them all!

Song

Dinosaur Song Sing-a-long!

December 16, 2020 PolkaDots Nursery

This term at Cresswood PolkaDots we’ve been learning all about Dinosaurs!!

We learnt a song about Dinosaurs and it goes like this…

We know they come in all shapes and sizes but mostly they’re really, reaaaallly BIG!

Makaton

Makaton Advent Calendar

November 27, 2020January 7, 2021 PolkaDots Nursery

Get ready for Santa with Polkadot’s Makaton Advent Calendar!

Shhhhh!! Can you hear the sleigh bells ringing?

Open a door each day and learn all our signs for Santa!

To get ready for Christmas, Polkadots is doing its very own Makaton Advent Calendar! Every day we’ll post a sign on our Facebook page. Kath will teach you songs and rhymes and show you how to use your new signs!

Will you be able to learn them all and complete our Makaton Advent Challenge?? To help you get ready, here’s a warm-up round!