People who help us

Today has been busy we have been lucky enough to go to the park for most the day as the weather has been amazing! So here is just a quick post of what activities we have done this morning. We have been looking again at people who help us.


This is the bus counting activity that I found on Twinkl this is brilliant as we are usually catching the bus so it is an activity Little Boo is familiar with and was pushing the bus around picking the people up from the bus stops pretending to be the bus driver. The added bonus was that the activity included counting!

We later decided that the Little People needed to be involved as it makes the game more fun.

They all then needed some "bus money" another great counting activity with the pennies. 

Paying the bus driver 

 After this Little Boo decided that she wanted to try out her new fancy dress and we did  hospital role play. This is the first fancy dress I have brought I have got a fancy dress box mainly with funny glasses and wigs but not a proper outfit I will definitely be investing in some more as she loved it.

I am apparently OK. 

I just wanted to share these figures with you as well we played with these when we got back from  the park.  They are called occupation figures and we were lucky enough to pick them up from the toy library this week.  I really like the set as they are not biased towards gender specific roles.  I would not like Little Boo to grow up thinking only men can be builders and women nurses! 

I am going to use these figures in some small world play I think she will like that.

Drawing people- a trip to the art gallery

As I mentioned this week our theme is all about people.  Due to this I decided to go to a local art gallery and  look at all the people the hope was that Little Boo would like to draw the people.  Little Boo was well equipt with her little bag filled with plain paper, crayons, pens and her camera.  When she got to the gallery it was clear to see that she was eager to draw.

It was a great day as she seemed to concentrate on her drawings and even started to look at the statues for reference.  I think it helped that she attracted a lot of attention of the visitors saying, "well done" to her which she liked.  This time we have even progressed to the faces having bodies, arms and legs.  Fair enough the arms are sometimes coming out the head! but they are there and I know what they are.

The masterpiece

It was really funny as Daddy was not at work when we went and as soon as we got into the gallery she said that she had to take Daddy to see the "ladies bottom" it is a good job that I know what she meant! (One of Degas Dancers) she led Daddy straight to the sculpture and did a very lovely picture.  She then went on to draw three figures.

From this 

To this

Little Boo decided the sculptures that she wanted to draw and really enjoyed the activity so next time we go to the gallery we will do this again.  It is also great as this is a FREE activity! and great to do on a rainy day. It will be really nice to see the progress in her drawings so I have started to create a power point of this I think this is a great compact way to keep her creations.