Father's Day

 The weather has been so miserable recently.  Our garden has really suffered and the poor chicken's run is just mud where the rain has turned the straw to mulch. I will be so glad when our summer starts so we can get into the garden properly.

We actually made it outside this morning as the sun decided to come out. We tested out our new bubble machine and the children enjoyed catching all the bubbles as they floated around the garden.  We also went to Asda and bought some play sand for the activity table and the children had fun building sandcastles and using the dinosaur moulds.

This afternoon the children were busy bees making cards and cupcakes for their Daddies. We used some black card with some paper ties stuck on the front with PVA glue and a lovely poem inside.

The children then helped to make some cupcakes, taking it in turns to add ingredients and stir the mixture.  We used some football cupcake cases which the children thought the daddies would like.

We left them to cool while we went off to play and then later took it in turns to ice and decorate them while the rest of the children read stories about Dads with Paul in the living room.

 We then finished them off with a cute cupcake box with balls on.

The Daddies really enjoyed their cakes and cards and the children enjoyed the ones that they took home too (well we couldn't JUST give cakes to the Daddies could we?)

Happy Father's Day

To link to our topic of "People who help us", we thought about our Daddies on father's Day and how they help us.  The children came up with some wonderful ways in which their daddy's help them.  Here are some of the things they said...

"My Daddy helps me put on my shoes"

 "My Daddy makes me toast"

"My Daddy gets me dressed"

"My daddy reads me a story"

We read some books at circle time about Daddies; My Dad! by Chae Strathie and Jacqueline East and Just Like my Dad by David Melling.

  

The children all made some lovely gifts to take home.  They made some yummy biscuits and handmade cookie bags, cards and pictures.  We had some lovely feedback from our Dad's.  One of them even shed a little tear when he opened his card. Awwww...




 





  The toddlers made shirt cards and decorated them by colouring in ties.  Some also decorated them with scrunched up tissue paper. I gave them a choice of materials and they chose what they wanted to do.  The babies had their hands painted and printed onto cards for their Daddies.

We hope you had a very happy Father's Day