August holiday program
12th Aug- 6th Sep 2019
Monday 12th
Today we start the holiday program utilizing our creative minds. Sticking pom poms on the lining of our own names and decorating our very own name portraits to start the day! Later on we will be creating our own funny fruit and veggie face plates with strawberries, apples, bananas, beans, tomatoes and cucumber!
Tuesday 13th
The children will learn whilst having fun with this activity!
Wednesday 14th
Recycled craft- Paper city!
Today we will be doing team work to create our very own houses and together cities, utilising recycled toilets rolls and wrapping paper!
Thursday- 15th
Friday 16th
Let’s learn about our bodies! We are making hand x-rays using white paint and earbuds on black paper. We will also learn about our fingerprints and make fingerprint print paintings in the afternoon.
Monday 19th
Puzzles making!
Today the children will exercise their creative, cognitive and problem-solving muscles with a good puzzle. The children will also enjoy drawing a picture on a sturdy piece of cardboard. Then use a pencil to outline puzzle pieces directly on their drawing. They will then cut out the pieces with a good pair of scissors, mix them up and get solving.
Bigger puzzle pieces for our little Ladybugs and smaller for our Dragonflies.
Tuesday 20th
Dance off
Dancing is not only fun, but a great way to stay active. The children are going to battle it out on the ‘dancefloor’ to see who has the best moves. We will also be enjoying musical chairs and statues to all our favourite songs!
Wednesday 21st
The listening game
This game is sure to both educate and delight our little ones. Today we will be playing some fun games, one being the listening game! The children will be guessing the different sounds of objects and instruments while blindfolded. We will also being having some fun with all the musical instruments and create some of our own songs!
Thursday 22nd
Arts and crafts
Today we will be setting up a fun arts and crafts table with bits and bobs, from paint to pipe cleaners to create anything our imagination desires!
Later on we will enjoy egg spoon races and obstacle courses!
Friday 23rd
We can never get too much exercise! Are you ready for some more Wheel barrow, frog races and tie legs to each other races today?? We will also be doing hop scotch and skipping! Remember your takkies!
Monday 26th
Another day at the lake! Fishing fun for all our little ones with our new fishing rods!
We will also be doing some fun art- Free painting a big piece of paper blue and adding our little fish to a beautiful aquarium!
Tuesday 27th
Touch-and-feel box
Time to utilise out steregonostic senses!
Our little ones will love this entertaining challenge. We will have a secret box where different objects will be placed, the children have to guess the object, it could be cooked spaghetti, toothbrush or even fruit! We will then colour and paint our favourite animals.
Baking day!
Today we are bakers! We are making yummy rice cake and chocolate and fruit owls with strawberries, apples, bananas, kiwi and blueberries! In the afternoon we will play a game of HOOT HOOT!
Wednesday 28th
Balance beams
We all know how much children love walking in straight lines every chance they get. Today we will play some music and one at a time the kids can take their turn walking one-foot-over-the-other across the straight line of tape. We will also make the game more challenging by having the kids walk backwards and balance with one foot on the line. Then with some stretching and relaxing movements for calming our spirits.
Thursday 29th
Today we are getting cultural! We are having Zulu lessons and an Africa song day! We will learn the song and show you our moves at home!
Friday 30th
Let’s learn about artists who paint with their feet! We will do fun free foot painting in the morning followed by activities where we use our feet like games of Soccer, Hop scotch and skipping!
Monday 2nd Sep
Getting artistic! We are making pasta piece necklaces! First we will use glitter and paint to make our pasta pieces beautiful and then we will thread them together in the afternoon!
Tuesday 3rd
Today we are making a colourful pinwheel and learning all about wind directions! We are going to test our pinwheels outside and see what happens!
Wednesday 4th
Today we are engineers! We will be building with blocks and doing a Lego colour race game! We are also building using our own imagination and scrap material such as foam blocks and shaving cream as cement!
Thursday 5th
We all know the little ones love a treasure hunt! Today come dressed up as a pirate! We will be searching for the missing golden money on Cherry Island! We will also have face painting and pirate art!
Friday 6th
Today is another great activity day, fresh air and being active is the name of the game…we will have a treasure hunt followed by games outside and Wolfie wolfie will be on the list!