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Flying Start @ Cornwall College have been getting messy in the Baby Department!

The children have been exploring lots of different sensory play and creative crafts so far this month…

 

Mark making with paints, chalks and crayons…

Mixing different textures and transporting these between trays! The babies have loved mixing water and sand, water and cornflour to make goop, glitter and oats and lots more special potions have been made!

And lots of shiny tissue, paper, glitter and sparkly things were used to create beautiful light pictures celebrating Fireworks Night and Diwali!

Next the babies will be exploring play dough scented and coloured with different things… and hopefully some exciting winter themed snow sensory!

Flying Start @ Cornwall College’s Toddlers have been developing their fine motor skills… disco style!

Recently the staff have been on ‘Finger Gym’ training and have put this into action with the toddlers…

Firstly the children make the play dough, then they start some finger gym activities…

These really help to develop fine motor control, skills and concentration levels!

This week the activity has been a ‘Dough Disco’! The children hold onto their playdough balls and listen to the music.. following their grown ups lead they use the play dough in time with the music! 

Shaking it, rolling it, squeezing it, poking it, stretching it and using our hands whilst having a dance! 

What a great way to develop hand strength which will help with writing control, cutlery control and lots of other fine motor activities.

Flying Start @ Cornwall College have been out enjoying the Autumn weather on lots of Nature Walks!

The toddlers took some paper and crayons and looked for different surfaces they could do rubbings on…

They found that different textures such as a smooth rock, or the bumpy bark on a tree gave them different marks on the paper!

Then they found some shapes on signs…

And got some fantastic marks on the paper! 

Really making the connection between the markings on the stone and then the effect the crayon made on top of these markings on the paper!

Flying Start @ Cornwall College’s Babies have tried alternative mark making!

The babies loaded up their ‘swatters’ with paint and made marks by hitting the paper! 

They even started to mix the colours by using the swatters in the different coloured paints and seeing the effects on the paper…

This was a great way to be physical and expressive with some gross motor movements and paints!

Flying Start @ Cornwall College Raise Awareness and Funds for the World Wildlife Foundation!

The children and staff expressed themselves in animal fancy dress and face paints and had a day full of animal and wildlife activities.

The babies made animal footprint pictures from potato printing and painting, explored soil and spaghetti pretending it was worms and enjoyed jungle noises and singing!

The toddlers and preschool, made animal masks, read animal stories, their gym club was animal themed with lots of slithering like a snack and aping around! And then made lots of cakes and biscuits for their cake sale.

The children also learnt new key words in preschool like: ‘specie’ and ‘extinct’ , and used fact books and the internet to learn how to care for animals and the planet!

Thankyou to all families, children and staff who joined in the fun and raise some important funds to help look after the planet!