Play Ideas for summer holidays 2020. Please see how our week will plan out with ideas we are going to share with you daily. Have fun and enjoy some family time.
Play Ideas for Summer 2020 from South Bristol Children’s Centres. So school has officially finished for six weeks but this year it is different as your children have already been at home with you for four months.
SBCC are going to give you loads of play ideas to keep your children having FUN, inside and out. We have also organised the Story Book trails for you and the children to explore.
Until Friday 28th August there will be ideas posted every day around a daily theme.
- Mondays will be craft day and a You Tube video of the story of the week
- Tuesday singing with Bill and making musical instruments
- Wednesdays playing outdoors with nature.
- Thursdays games outside and keeping children active
- Fridays Baking day with the children
Daily Ideas for Summer Holidays 2020!
Monday, Story of the week for each weeks Book Trial & Crafting Idea’s.
The Jolly Postman, 20/07/2020.
Craft Idea for Monday, 27/07/2020
As part of the summer offer to some families in Bristol, Children’s Scrapstore have been busy making up craft activity bags.
Carole from the Knowle team and two of her grandchildren Lewis and Ava have had an opportunity to roady test one of the kits.
We hope that you have as much fun with your kit as we did. Please post pictures of your creations on our Facebook.
Watch the video available on our new summer activities playlist on YouTube, you can see what we managed to create with our kit.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff, 28/07/2020 Second week of story book trial.
Today we have a fantastic crafting idea for this weeks Virtual summer time table. Monday 03/08/2020
Carole has been busy making a fun creature to go along side this weeks Story Trial, Please see the video to see what fun she has been creating. If you were able to go along to one of our food clubs last week you could make some props using bits from the activity bag given out from The Children’s Scrapstore. If not you could use your own supplies, Let Carole give you some inspiration.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar read by the author Eric Carle, 03/08/2020
Crafting Monday 10/08/2020 Teddy Bear Faces.
Crafty Monday Monday 10th August From our Scrapstore bag this week, we are going to make a Teddy Bear Face from paper folding and googly eyes.
Did you know, One of the world’s most beloved toys was named in honour of President Theodore Roosevelt, after he refused to shoot a bear during a Mississippi hunting trip in November 1902.
The newspapers made fun of “Teddy” Roosevelt for not killing the bear and then New York, shopkeeper Morris Michtom and his wife Rose made a stuffed fabric bear in honour of America’s 26th commander-in-chief and displayed it with a sign, “Teddy’s bear,” in their store window, where it attracted interest from customers. The Michtoms went on to start a successful company that manufactured teddy bears and other toys.
We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, 10/08/2020 Read By Ava.
Room on The Broom, Craft ideas for this weeks trail at Northern Slopes. 17/08/2020
Room on a Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
This week we are taking to the skies with the Witch and her friend the cat, they are on their journey making some new friends. Using some of the materials from your craft bag, we hope you can make a broom and the witch and her friends.
Follow the instructions on the first sheet to make your broomstick and then print out the second sheet and stick the print onto thin card. You can use a clothes peg for each puppet, you can then peg the puppets on the broomstick or using your lolly sticks you can make the cut out’s into stick puppets. If you have run out of cardboard you can use the back of a cereal box or similar.
You can go to our daily playlist on YouTube and watch the story being read
Percy The Park Keeper. The Secret Path, 24/08/2020.
Hi families, well we can’t believe it is the last week of the school holidays and hopefully all your lovely children will be going back to school.
This is our last Storybook trail. Percy the Park Keeper-The Secret Path. It will be at Hengrove Mounds. We are using the entrance just behind the skate park at Hengrove Park as the starting point. We really hope we don’t have any damage this week.
If you haven’t sent your entries yet, please take your photos and What’s App or text to us as soon as possible.
The Walks Team
Watch the video to see Ava reading this weeks story trail Book.
Tuesday, Singalong With Bill The Music Man or Making Musical Instruments.
Sing along to Freddie The Frog, 28/07/2020.
Bill and The Very Hungry Caterapillar
Sing along with Bill The Music Man at our 4th story trail. We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, 11/08/2020
Come and join us at Manor Valley Woods by Bishopsworth Library, see if you can find the bear in the cave. Bill the music man, might give you some helpful clues.
Mood Music By Bill Our Music Man 18/08/2020
On Today’s Summer Timetable. 18/08/2020
Sing along with Bill Our Music Man, Have lots of fun.
25/08/2020 Sing along today with Bill the Music Man with Percy The Park Keeper.
Wednesday, Playing outdoor’s with Nature.
Making Frames with items found while exploring with nature 22/07/2020
Activities to complete, while exploring nature 29/07/2020
All about Caterpillars, 04/08/2020
Today’s Virtual Summer Time table is all about Caterpillars.
Raising a caterpillar can be fun. There are kits you can buy online from Amazon or EBay, and raise a caterpillar from an egg. These girls have got some caterpillars and have looked after them until they became butterflies.
Pop along to our playlist and look how they managed to look after them.
You could do the same or make a pretend caterpillar.
Follow this weeks link to our Wednesday playlist and get creating. We would love to see what you have made so please send us some pictures.
Difference Between Bee’s and Wasp’s, 12/08/2020
Difference between bees and wasps
It’s summertime and the children are getting sticky because it is hot. Then you come across flying insects, you know the ones you dread, bees and wasps.It is important to know the difference in the two insects just in case there is a serious reaction
Watch this video we have found to share on our playlist, so that you can recognise the basic differences between bee and wasp.
Importantly, if you come across flying insects, tell your children not to flap their arms and run about screaming. I know this is not easy, especially if you are frightened yourself.If unfortunately you get stung, here’s how to treat the sting. Here is the advice from the NHS:First aid for insect bites and stings.
To treat an insect bite or sting:
- Remove the sting, tick or hairs if still in the skin.
- Wash the affected area with soap and water.
- Apply a cold compress (such as a flannel or cloth cooled with cold water) or an ice pack to any swelling for at least 10 minutes.
- Raise or elevate the affected area if possible, as this can help reduce swelling.
- Avoid scratching the area or bursting any blisters, to reduce the risk of infection – if your child has been bitten or stung, it may help to keep their fingernails short and clean.
- Avoid traditional home remedies, such as vinegar and bicarbonate of soda, as they’re unlikely to help.
The pain, swelling and itchiness can sometimes last a few days.
Removing a sting If you’ve been stung and the sting has been left in your skin, you should remove it as soon as possible to prevent any more venom being released.Scrape it out sideways with something with a hard edge, such as a bank card, or your fingernails if you don’t have anything else to hand.Don’t pinch the sting with your fingers or tweezers because you may spread the venom.
Building your very own, Bug Hotel, 19/08/2020
Di, from our Knowle Children’s Centre has been finding you some instructions on how to make a bug hotel. Do you think you could make one for your garden and give the bugs a cosy place to sleep.
watch the video we have found to share with you. We hope it helps with your own building and gives you some ideas to help the wild life in your garden.
The hotel will help, Hedgehogs, Frogs, Toads & Newts, Bees, Creepy crawlies, Small mammals, Fungi, and Birds. It will be suitable for all gardens.
What you will need to build your own Bug Hotel,
· Old logs
· Old bricks or big stones
· Branches
· ‘Brash’ (spindly Plant/hedge pruning’s)
Instructions on how to make your very own Bug Hotel. Collect your all your materials before you start. Where to put your dead wood? You can put it just about anywhere in your garden, but it will attract different wildlife in different places. If you put it somewhere shady, it’s likely to rot more quickly. Fungi are likely to arrive and mosses may grow. Put the wood in the sun and the wood will turn dry and hard. This is how solitary bees, who investigate old beetle holes, and wasps, who ‘harvest’ (chew) wood to build their nests, like it. It’s a good idea to put it in an existing or new flowering border where the inhabitants may find nectar.
How to arrange your wood. You can just pile the wood up, higgledy-piggledy, for that rustic look. Or stack it neat and tidily – nature won’t mind. Some creatures like dead wood that is buried. So you can dig a hole and start your pile underground, so that it’s like an iceberg with some hidden below the surface. You can lay them horizontally or vertically. If vertical they need to be buried 45cm – 60cm in the ground. Above ground they need to look like organ pipes and be different heights. Sprinkle with earth or brash. You can use the soil you excavated on the top and even sprinkle some wildflower seed’s on top..
What you’ll see, much of the time the log pile may seem very quiet, for most of its inhabitants are using it to hide – from you or the sun. If you turn one of the logs over in the day, you can watch plenty of creepy-crawlies scurrying away out of the light. If you’ve made a log pile in the sun, look for solitary bees seeking nest holes. Or come out at night to look for woodlice, snails and wood lice.
26/08/2020 Crayon Rubbings with Tree Bark and Leafs.
After a very windy start to the week looks like the sun has finally come out to play. 🌤
Why not take your little ones outside, enjoy the outdoors and the nature either in your garden or out for a walk. Today we thought would be a great day to try some Crayon Rubbings. The leaf’s have started to fall and there are very many different types of trees. They all have very different leafs and bark ideal for your very own piece of art.
All you need is some Leafs that have fallen possibly a tree for doing bark rubbings, crayons, paper, and some tape to hold your pieces of paper down. As it is still a little windy out there.
Please watch the video we have found to share with you of some tree rubbings being created.
You can do exactly the same with some leafs. You could collect some and take them home to create your own rubbing, as the wind is still strong and we don’t want your master pieces blowing away.
Thursday, Games outside and keeping active .
Children playing outdoors 23/07/2020
Throwing and catching 30/07/2020
Throwing, catching, kicking and batting are essential physical skills for children. Children love playing with balls, and their urge to engage with a round, moving is something all children around the world enjoy.
Under-Twos
Generally, children under two have not yet developed the skilled hand-eye co-ordination for throwing, catching or batting, or the foot-eye co-ordination for effective kicking. Preparation cannot start too early – and it starts with young children (up to two years) becoming familiar with the equipment. Bean bags and soft beach balls are an ideal way of starting.
Two To Five
Between the ages of two and five children will begin to acquire specific ball skills – throwing, catching, kicking, batting/striking. These skills need to be practiced regularly for about 10-15 minutes per day. Balls can be expensive, but rolled up socks, tights or paper balls are a good substitute.
Five and over
Try these challenges from Twinkle every day with your school age children.
Creating your very own sports day with friends and family, 05/08/2020
Today Carole from our Knowle team has been busy having some fun with her Son and Grandchildren outdoors.
Family and Friends Sports Day.
Hi this is Carole again from the Knowle Team. Many children won’t have had their annual Sports Day at school. When you are out and about in open spaces, you could take a few props to have your own family and friends sports day.
Ideas of what to use for your Props.
A couple of tablespoons and small plastic balls for the egg and spoon race. A couple of scarves for a three legged race Using the scarves as a finish line for a running race. Using scarves as a relay baton, or you could use a stick.
Other races you could do are: Sack race with a larger reusable shopping bag Bean Bag Toss with one of your shopping bags.
Here are my grandchildren having a great time in the open space at Callington Road nature reserve.
13/08/2020 Exploring the Local Amenities, Windmill Hill.
13/08/2020 For today’s Game’s Outside and Keeping Active, why not pop down to the local Windmill Hill City Farm. Spend the day looking at the animal’s and enjoying the surroundings. Walking and playing will keep you busy and active free of charge and your little ones will love it.with 50% off Mon-Weds.
They have a stick man trail, and a small unsupervised playground. The cafe is now open and taking part of the eat out to help out scheme with 50% off Mon-Weds during August. The cafe has a big circus type roof.
Follow the link to their website to see what’s Available.
https://www.windmillhillcityfarm.org.uk/whats-here/
Maps of Windmill Hill City Farm and The Stick Man Activity Sheet.
Granite Rock Slide in Clifton, 20/08/2020
Free places to go in Bristol
Not that the holidays are coming to an end and money is tight, we have some free places for you to try.
Clifton Suspension Bridge, the granite slide and the Downs. Take a number 6 bus out to Clifton and you have these three treats all together. Have you ever walked over the bridge and felt the size and height of Brunel’s great creation. Sadly the visitor centre is shut due to Covid.
If you have school age children they will love the naturally formed granite slide. This piece of granite has been polished by many bottoms over the years. The slide is accessed by walking up to the observatory which is also shut.
Finally, walking along the downs, you again can see the enormity of the Avon Gorge and if you are lucky, you may see some peregrines flying over.
Here is a great video to watch on our playlist, you can see how fun the granite slide is
Friday, Baking with Children.
Baking with Children Today 31/07/2020
Making Flapjack
Flapjack is so easy to make and can be made as a power snack before you go out on your storybook walks. BBC Good Food explain how
Flapjacks are so tasty, versatile and easy to make yourself at home. We show you how to make two basic recipes. Tip: The formula for basic flapjacks is really easy to remember if you think 1,2,3 – 100g soft brown sugar, 200g butter, 300g oats and three tablespoons golden syrup.
Use the link below to find a full list of ingredients for loads of different flavour’s of Flapjack.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/flapjack
Watch the video we have found to share with you, on our new Summer playlist to show you how easy they are to make.
Homemade Tomato Sauce and helpful information from the Children’s Kitchen a Feeding Bristol Project! 07/08/2020
Simple Tomato Sauce Today, we are featuring a tomato sauce that will go perfectly with any type of pasta.
Video from their team of how to make the Tomato Sauce!
Children’s Kitchen
One of our Children’s Centres colleagues Jo Ingleby is Director of the Children’s Kitchen, a Feeding Bristol project. Children’s Kitchen works with partners 91ways and Square Food Foundation, and they have produced a series of recipes and cookery videos to inspire children to cook at home. The videos feature Bristol cooks and their children from 91ways, Square Food Foundation and KnowleDGE. There is also a costed shopping list for buying ingredients on the £15 budget and links to useful websites and support around food.
14/08/2020 Tom’s Omelette.
Tom’s Omelette Friday 14th August, This week from the Children’s Kitchen we have Tom and Trunh showing you how to make an easy omelette. It looks really delicious. Hope you get a chance to make one.
Check out the video below that we have found to share with you on our playlist for today and get instructions on how to make one.
Tom’s Omelette recipe sheet.
Chickpea Bites & Flatbread, 21/08/2020
21/08/2020 Cooking with children.
Here we are again with the Children’s Kitchen and this week they are going to make Chickpea bites with flatbread.
Join Zara and her daughters Sabi and Annabella in the kitchen while they show you how to prepare and cook the recipe. Watch their video.
Spiced Lemon Chicken Traybake 27/08/2020.
27/08/2020 Today with the Children’s Kitchen they are going to make Spiced Lemon Chicken Traybake.
