#9

Not today but definitely up for kids facetime. We did it with her cousin yesterday for the first time and have had a few others on facebook say they’re up for it.

Kids of dis conference

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#10

Does anyone have any good baking ideas/recipes for young children? My daughter recently tried making bread ‘hedgehogs’ with her dad, which created these hideous creatures that tasted as good as they looked…

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#11

Banana bread is always good. Can’t go wrong really and uses up mushy old nanas.

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#12

If you can get a sheet of puff pastry you can make cheese twists or cinnamon twists:

  1. Unroll pastry sheet
  2. Spread with EITHER finely grated cheese(s) with optional seasoning/spices (black pepper, paprika, chilli powder, anything you like) OR a mixture of cinnamon and (ideally brown, but any will do) sugar, optionally add finely chopped nuts
  3. Cut into 2cm wide strips
  4. Twist each strip and place onto baking tray lined with greaseproof paper
  5. Cook for about 12 minutes on gas 7. The sweet ones will be more prone to burning so perhaps check them after 10 minutes.

Steps 2 & 4 are about as toddler friendly as cooking can get.

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#13

My last day at school (until September??? :grimacing: ) so I raided the maths department stock cupboard for a fine selection of old textbooks for my GCSE age kids.

“WHAT’S THAT YOU SAY? YOU’RE BORED?”

#14

Thank you, I will give this a go (definitely going to have to incorporate more exercise into our routine!)

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#15

Anyone got any good kids’ podcast action?

The boy loves this and is probably best 5-10 (but I enjoy it too). Just don’t expect them to learn anything!

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#16

Kitten Lady is doing a Kitten Class for Kids at 6pm

I will be tuning in, as I am a 25 year old child

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#17

Took the opportunity to sort out the toy boxes - we found some lost bits and pieces, rediscovered old toys, and got rid of some rubbish. There’s also some Julia Donaldson adaptations on iPlayer

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#18

Kids iplayer also added all of Sarah & Duck series 1 this week :heart:

(QUACK!)

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#19

So I floated this with CCB and he thought it was a plan. Any DiSers kids want to email or penpal, send pictures or anything. Thought it would be nice to send stuff…email obviously free and easy but can letter of that’s convenient. Let me know if that’s something you’d like to do and I can set up some lists!

Also got a load of links to put in here once I get ten minutes.

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#20

We have taken a few chairs in the house and set up a “car” (could also be a train or bus) and for mothers day we’re taking everyone to the beach. Got beach towels out and going to play some found sounds beach noises on the Bluetooth. Going to be fun.

Then we will have a picnic on the floor (with outside sounds).

Then this afternoon were “going to the cinema” in the car to see the shaun the sheep 2 and then getting a takeaway.

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#21

That sounds brilliant :grinning:

#22

A really fun activity I got the kids I tutor to do is 1, print off a science experiment template off twinkl or basically list experiment name/equipment/what I did/what happened and get them to think of a question and answer it through trying it out, and writing down their findings in that format. 8yo tried to find out which type of surface out of a few (paper, card, fabric etc) can be wiped down the easiest with paint on, and the 6yo mixed paint with water and tried to see what would absorb it fastest, paper, tissue or fabric scraps etc. Used the same stuff for both kids, and other experiments for older kids can be mixing kitchen stuff like baking soda and lemon with water or the litmus test with washing up powder as the alkaline and lemon as the acid and red cabbage as the universal indicator. Making them write it up as well will drag things out and its educational and fun

Also older kids can be prompted to write a hypothesis before they start

#23

Yeah this kinda stuff is great. I reckon most kids will hopefully be familiar with testing stuff out from science at school

We’re recommending kids do tests on states of matter eg how long does it take for water to evaporate in different places round the house, how long for different things to melt (being mindful of waste obv)

They can record stuff with iPads and set timers etc and plan the whole thing out

Same goes for measuring and cooking if they’re able to.

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#24

t-30 minutes until the first Joe Wicks / Body Coach thing for kids.

I’m on a work call right now, but it should be done by 9 so I put on my jogging bottoms rather than jeans earlier…

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#25

Not having a printer is annoying. Wish we owned one. Might invest…

I went to KallKwik to print 100 pages and it was really £40.

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#26

Did her Frozen one on Friday (after a couple of days of Joe Wicks). I really enjoyed it. MiniWza drifted in and out. She wants to do the Hey Duggee dancing PE thingy so I reckon we’ll do that tomorrow.

Have made some fairy doors (skirting board sized jobbers, coated in glittery PVA glue, so they can also go outside), and made some welcome notes to make the fairies feel at home when they arrive. :fairy::door:

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#27

Couple of quick drawing activities:

Shadow pictures
If you have some bright morning light coming through, get a toy and place it at the bottom of some paper and draw around the shaddow it makes, then colour/shade in.

Squiggle Pictures
Draw a big bumch of squiggles or lines all over a bit of paper and then try and find shapes in the lines to make something, like this sideways parrot here that emerged from an attempt I did:

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#28

Mystery (/treasure hunt/goose chase).

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Presume this is pretty self-explanatory but, in case it’s not clear from the photo… sketch a few household things, pick a starting ‘clue’ (magnifying glass optional as a prop), then create a trail, so one thing leads to the next, and maybe have a snack treat at the end of the trail. Dead basic, but MiniWza (3 and a bit) really bought into it. Could ramp up the difficulty with more wordy or even cryptic stuff for older kids? Create some sort of narrative?

Doesn’t last very long, but very repeatable cos you can shuffle the order of the things and have different ending.

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