Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Plastic Egg ideas



With the lead up to Easter loads of places are selling plastic eggs and they are great to use for activities and to craft with here are some of the things that we have done with our eggs. These eggs after Easter usually go into the sale but I feel they can be used all year round. 



Catching eggs in the bath is a great game Little Boo caught certain colours.  Then she enjoyed using the eggs to pour the water from egg to egg. 


There are loads of home made play dough ideas out there and the plastic eggs make such a great container for   it. If you decorate the egg it would look even more personalised! Add a few play dough cutters in the egg box as well to make it more fun.  This is a great idea for children who can not eat chocolate or for those that you want another idea for.


Making these shakers is such an easy idea all you need to do is find various different items around the house and add them to the eggs.  We used rice, beads, buttons, pasta, cut up straws. 


Glow in the dark Easter Egg hunt is such good fun! All we did was add some glow sticks into the eggs. 



Add letters or numbers into the eggs and attempt to find the right one. Little Boo started to use the eggs with the Play dough then we decided to use them as molds to make our own Play dough eggs.



Little Boo loves Humpty Dumpty so we decided to make Humpty Dumpty and Mrs Humpty Dumpty.  You can still open these so they would be great to store some little Easter treats!



We used the plastic eggs as molds to make our salt dough eggs.  We cooked these using the microwave and our three minute salt dough recipe.  That meant they were ready really quick so we could paint them :)  




This last idea is the one that Little Boo enjoyed the most! Using the eggs to make nests for the chicks and making our own Easter trays. 


I hope that these ideas come in helpful in the lead up to Easter and after! 

Friday, 20 July 2012

Music about animals and noisy balloons.














Today we listened to some music and made our own instruments out of balloons!   The balloons were filled with various different items that made them noisy.  These included water, rice, cous cous, pasta and spaghetti.  It was great fun and very noisy in the house as Little Boo has found the dial to turn  the music up.  We have a CD which I recently brought this has some great tracks on it our favourites are In the Pink and Down in the Jungle. However you do not need to buy CD with the internet now it is easy to get music.


Some animal music that we found on line

Walking through the jungle- Makaton signed version
Five Monkeys jumping on the bed
The Jungle song  this is so funny the video had me and Little Boo laughing the Little dog is so funny!
Bare Necessities 
Elephant march Jungle Book 
These are the sounds the animals make 
The animal Boogie - great video.
Animal sound with questions

Loads of shaking going on and kicking! Little Boo was even able to guess what was in the balloons. 

Hope that you enjoy sharing this.  Sorry that it will not be a quiet activity but it will be good fun!