Next Generation Babies Daily Diary: August 2021

Monday, August 30, 2021

31 August 2021

Hi everyone,

Just sharing with you a simple art work for Father's Day. Your children can do handprints or footprints.

You can also do foot or hand tracing and have them cut-outs.

Have a lovely week!

Stay safe and Sound.

We hope you are all staying well and safe as we go into our third week of level 4 lock down. This weekend is very special for our fathers and I have found some cool crafty ideas that you can make to surprise them.

Salt dough hand print candle holder

You can access the instructions by using this link How to make salt dough hand print candle holder

Tips on how to cook or dry the salt dough

How do you cook salt dough? How long do you put salt dough in the oven?

Baking it. As with all recipes that require baking in the oven, your oven is a factor and could need a temperature and bake time that’s a bit different and might only work for you. I suggest checking in how things are going when you are making your fist batch.

What I do recommend is baking at about 200 degrees F / 100 degrees Celsius. Bake for an hour and check. Turn the ornaments, bake for another hour. If the dough isn’t dry yet, bake for another hour and check.

You can access more tips by using this link (scroll to the end) Tips on making salt dough

Card ideas for Father's Day

Here are also some awesome ideas that you and your child can use for father's day cards.

I hope these craft ideas become helpful or might spark a few ideas that are more suitable for you and your whānau. We miss you all and look forward to seeing pictures of what you decide to make for Father's day. Stay safe and blessed whānau.

Ngā mihu nui,

Charity

Friday, August 27, 2021

Story time with Kelly Friday 27th August

Kia Ora all my friends. We love singing and books at our daycare and I have found two of our favourites to sing along with. Old MacDonald had a farm and the wheels on the bus. Enjoy singing along with me friends.

Happy Friday

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Salt Dough Recipe

Happy Thursday! Kei te pehea koe? How are you? I hope everyone had a wonderful week! One of our classroom focus was sensory development. This meant providing our tamariki opportunities to explore different textures.

Enjoy!

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Wednesday August 25 Mat time with Alice

Hello everyone! We miss you miss you all and hope you’re having fun with your Whānau. I’ve created a mat time for you, enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClU1CnrUP9I

If the link doesn’t work, you can look up “mat time with Alice” on Facebook!

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Tuesday 24th August, 2021 - Fun Art Ideas!

Kia ora Westglade whānau, we hope that you are all doing well during this lock down period. We all miss you and looking forward to seeing you all again. Here are a few ideas that you can do at home with your tamariki based on their interests. Most of our Westglade tamariki have had a lot of interests around art and exploration. Before we went into lock down, we have been having a lot of bubble action, so thought that this art idea will come in handy.

Or if you need some paint on hand for art creation or exploration. Below is an easy way to make it just by using what you have in your kitchen. All you need is flour, salt, water and food colouring. I found this link helpful.