Home made travel eye spy

I am so glad I blog as it has really encouraged me to start to research other peoples ideas and adapt them to suit Little Boo.  This week when doing my usual Link up with No time for Flash cards I noticed this scanner collage eye spy from another blogger.  I loved the idea and started to think how I could adapt this for Little Boo.  At the moment I am trying to reinforce colours and shapes so have created the collages to assist with this.  The idea is really simple I basically grabbed anything I thought was interesting scanned them (be careful not to break your scanner or scratch the glass) with a towel over the top.  

I have created a collage with coins as it will be interesting to see if Little Boo can distinguish what is money .  I did this one for work as well. I have created something very similar for the students but capturing the image this way is much more fun. I can not wait to play this game with Little Boo as I think she will love the items that I have picked.  The game will grow with her as the questions that are asked can become more and more complex.

At first I am going to ask questions like

Which one is a square?
Which one is Blue?
Where is Peppa Pig?
What colour is the flower?

The questions can then be developed to

How many squares are there?
How many animals are there?
Where is 1p?


Another way I will try to develop this is encourage Little Boo to ask me questions.   I am sure once I have modelled how this is done that she will try to do this.  

The scanned collages I have provided as a download I have tried to make them interesting and hope that some people will enjoy using them.  I am going to laminate ours then they can also be used with a board marker and the items circled this will also help with fine motor skills. May even add this game to our "Travel Buddy".


eye spy

Our travel buddy

I have devised our own little "travel Buddy" for when we go out for meals or travelling in the car. All it is, is a leather portfolio (this was passed on to me and has been so useful!) and here is what we generally fill ours with

• sticker book
• crayons
• textured rubbings
• home made crayons
• paper
• pens
• twist sticks
• felt people 
• stencils
• big dot to dot book (especially made for toddlers) 

Little Boo loves the Travel Buddy and it does help to keep her happy when we are out waiting for meals or travelling.  She decides what to fill the travel buddy with before we go out. Have you made something to take out travelling with you? If so what have you included in it? I have created this post so that hopefully others will share their ideas. 

Busy tin tried and tested

Thankfully I have been supplied with another metal tin.  This was fantastic as a few weeks ago we all went on a rather rainy camping holiday to Forest of Dean and I was looking for games to take which Little Boo could play.  

The idea for these funny faces came from another post that I have done which is very similar. I was trying to think how to make the idea portable so came up with magnetic funny faces. After a quick Google search for cartoon eyes and cartoon mouths I found ones that I liked put them onto a word document then printed them onto magnetic paper. Luckily the magnetic paper is currently in stock at the local poundland so was £1 for two sheets.  This makes this busy tin a very cheap idea.

This idea is so simple and Little Boo loved playing with them.  Sorry the image is bad we were in the tent!

Hope that this provides you all with some inspiration.  I have also considered using this at work as one of the units I teach is all about emotions the different faces could be made up to display the different emotions.