Early Years Spring Holiday Learning Pack 2019 2020 - Tudor Grange Primary Academy St James
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Early Years
Spring Holiday Learning Pack
2019 – 2020
EYFS
Easter Activities
Activity 1 – Mini growing project
Sprinkle a teaspoon of cress seeds (you can buy these from a garden centre) onto
wet cotton wool and press them down gently with your finger. You may want to use
a tub to place the cotton wool into. Place the cress heads in a warm, light place on
the windowsill, and wait for your seeds to grown into tiny, delicious bushes of
cress!
Keep a diary of what
might happen over 7
days to the cress seeds.
You could draw a picture each day and then write a
caption to describe what is happening.
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7
picture
description
Use your camera to take pictures of what happens daily – print them and stick
them into your table.
When they have grown – do a google search to find out if cress is edible.
Think - what you might make with your cress, if yours is edible too….
Activity 2 – Making sandwiches
Here is a suggestion:
1. Ask a grown up to help you boil an egg.
2. Spread margarine onto 2 slices of bread. Which bread will you use white or
brown or a mixture?
3. Mix the egg and cress together to make a filling.
4.if you do not like egg – just use the cress.
5. Spread the filling onto your bread and create a sandwich.
6.Can you cut your sandwich in half and then into quarters?
Activity 3 – The method. Use language - first, then, next, afterwards, lastly to say how you made the cress and then what you did with the cress if you made a sandwich. For example, use your speaking skills tell an adult…. First we sprinkled cress seeds onto wet cotton wool. Next they grew into cress. Then we boiled an egg etc etc. Challenge – can you use your writing skills to create an instructional book for others to use. The title could be How to make and grow cress.
Activity 4 – Humpty Dumpty – Who did it? Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not put Humpty together again. Create a crime scene and investigate who pushed Humpty off the wall. Who did it? Suspects are…… Jack & Jill Gingerbread Man Little Red Riding Hood Maybe you could use your toys to be the suspects. Be a reporter and ask them questions. Where were you when it happened? What were you doing? Do you like eating eggs? Have you ever pushed anyone? Use your magnifying glasses to look for clues such as Fingerprints Footprints, Chocolate wrappers. Draw posters to ask the public for help…
Did you see anything on Wednesday 1st April when Humpty was pushed? Contact Yew Tree school and speak to _______ with any information. You could create a suspect sheet like the example below…. http://www.ysgolpenybryn.co.uk/classes/primary/pobbles/pobblesgallery/humptydu mptycrimesceneinvestigation/default.htm Activity 5 – Exercise Challenge - Easter Egg Hunt You will need: An empty egg box, plastic fillable eggs and mini exercise challenge slips. (Cut out the ones below or be creative and make up your own) Instructions: 1. Cut out the exercise challenge slips below and hide one inside each egg. 2. Ask a grown-up/sibling to hide them in the garden. 3. Go on an egg hunt and collect your eggs. 4. Count how many eggs you have found. How many more do you need to find? Count the empty compartments in your egg box. 5. Open your egg and complete the exercise challenge. Maybe there might be a little treat inside too!
Exercise challenge strips: Do 10 star jumps Walk like a crab for 1 minute Dance like a chicken Slither like a snake on the grass Balance a beanbag on your head Run to each corner of your garden Spin round 4 times Tickle each person in your garden Do 10 bunny hops Stretch as high as you can and touch the sky Activity 6 – Can you sequence the life cycle of a chicken? Colour, cut and sequence the pictures. Stick numbered flaps over the top to make your own flip flap book. Can you think of any other animal life cycles? What would your life cycle sequence look like?
Activity 7 – Shadow drawing.
As the sun is shining, why not have a play around with shadows?
Can you line up your animals or other toys so that their shadows can be seen?
Use paper to draw around the shadow of your objects and you can use this outline
to colour in your objects properly!
If you don’t have paper, this also works brilliantly outside with chalks.
Are some shadows different to others? Why is this? Discuss shapes, heights and
widths with your child.
Activity 8 – Caterpillar number lines
You will need:
• Paper (lined or plain)
• Paint
• Coloured Pens/Pencils
Method:
• Can you create a caterpillar number
line?
• Write numbers 1-10 down the left side of
the paper.
• Have a go at drawing a caterpillar head
by each number
• With your finger, dab into the paint you
have chosen and make fingerprints next
to each head that represents the number.
• Can you challenge yourself and go beyond 10?
Activity 9 – Spring Watch
Have a look in your garden or go out for a walk. What can you see and hear? Can
you tick them off the list?
Butterfly Frog Daffodils
Bee Blossom Ladybird
Tulips Bird Snail
Activity 10 – Easter Bunny Craft Instructions YOU WILL NEED: - White paint - 3 toiler rolls - Card to print on - Green paint or crayons and black paint or crayons INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Gather your 3 toilet rolls 2. Squash 2 toilet roll and keep one round 3. Stick the 2 squashed toilet rolls to the top of the round one to form the ears 4. Dip this into some white paint 5. Print onto card or paper – it should create a bunny outline 6. Once dry, add in some eyes, nose, mouth and whiskers to the bunny 7. You can draw some grass or flowers around them! 8. Have fun!
Activity 11 – Number Bonds to 10 Egg Game
Instructions:
1. Cut along the crack in the eggs
2. Mix them all up
3. Try to match the top of an egg to the bottom of an egg so that the 2 numbers
would add together to make 10!
4. You can colour them in afterwards!
0 1 2
10 9 8
=
5
3 4 5
=
7 6 5
5
= 5 =
5 56 7 8
4 3 2
9 10
=
1 0
5Inspiration Materials Instructions
Easter Wreath
1. Cut the inner portion
from the paper plate,
so that your have the
outer portion intact.
2. If your paper has a
design on it, turn it over
and trace the cookie
cutter onto the paper
for a template.
3. Cut the eggs from
• Paper plate the paper and glue
• Spring onto the back of the
and Easter themed/colored paper plate wreath.
paper
• Glue
• Glue Dots
• Ribbon (we used a 7/8″
wide craft ribbon)
• Egg Cookie Cutter or oval
cookie cutter
• Scissors
4.Cut a piece of ribbon,
make a bow, use a glue
dot, and attach to the
top of the wreath.
5. Cut another piece of
ribbon, form a loop, use
a glue dot, and attach
to the back of the
wreath.
6. Hang and enjoy for
Easter.
Creating chocolate playdough!
Playdough is one of the great • 8 tbsp plain flour 1. Mix the flour and salt
sensory mediums, it allows for • 2 tbsp table salt in a large bowl. In a
endless creative and open- • 60ml warm water separate bowl mix
ended play and always keeps • food colouring together the water, a few
little ones engaged for long • 1 tbsp vegetable oilperiods of time. Create a • 3 tsp cocoa powder drops of food colouring
chocolate scented playdough by • beads, buttons, pipe cleaners and the oil.
adding in a few teaspoons of to decorate
cocoa powder to a basic 2. Pour the coloured
playdough recipe. You will also need water into the flour mix
and bring together with a
spoon.
• mixing bowl
• whisk 3. Dust a work surface
• plastic moulds (see below for with a little flour and turn
ideas) out the dough. Knead
together for a few
minutes to form a
smooth, pliable dough. If
you want a more intense
colour you can work in a
few extra drops of food
colouring.
4. Store in a plastic
sandwich bag (squeeze
out the air) in the fridge
to keep it fresh.
Make your own bird feeders
This is a great way to strengthen 1. Thread the Cheerios
fine motor skills through play.
You will need: onto the pipe
cleaners/string
2. Once finished secure
• cheerios it in order for the
• pipe cleaners/ Cheerios not to fall off.
3. Hang them in your
• string garden and count how
many hungry animals
come and eat your home
made snacks.
Enjoy ☺Egg Carton Chick
• egg cartons 1.Cut apart 2 egg
• acrylic paint and brush holders from the carton
• glue, scissors, marker and trim off the excess
• construction paper on the edges.
2. Glue the 2 pieces
together.
3. Paint and allow to dry.
4. Add a beak and some
eyes.Other Easter / Spring ideas you can do
Go on a Spring walk and look for Using stones, pebbles, shells or sticks, ask the
signs of spring, i.e. buds on trees/ create a picture. Try a dinosaur or even a ship.
spring flowers. Show them how to create the outline of a shape
to form part of the picture, for example a triangle
Create a spring picture, using natural for the dinosaur’s head. Once the children have
resources to make a blossom tree, made their shape outlines and the picture is
caterpillar, butterfly. complete, use natural materials to fill up each
shape. Weeds, dry grass, leaves and moss are all
great wild materials which add texture to natural
art. Discuss which shapes the children are using
for each part of the picture. Take some photos of
the children’s natural pictures. Use this
opportunity to allow them to talk about which
shapes they used.
Read the Easter story and then role Papier-mâché a balloon and create a
play the last supper. Wash your colourful Easter egg.
family’s feet and give them
blackcurrant squash and bread to eat. Decorate hard boiled eggs with felt tips,
Discuss how Jesus did this because and glitter.
he cared for his friends and family.
Mini beast hunt
Lego
stamping art
Find and take photos on letters in
nature! Can you spell your name?
Bunny / handprint art
Make play dough (method above)
and practice your cutting skills!Easter pattern art & Easter counting Tricky egg word hunt
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