Dont Drop Your Chopsticks! - Some Ideas for Celebrating Chinese New Year - Year of the Dragon 23rd January 2012

Let's Bake.... Prosperity Cakes (Fatt Gou)

Here is a box...

Open ended resources really do mean open ended, there are so many opportunities for Active Learning, inspiring imaginations and enjoying together with our sets of 8 storage boxes which fit inside each other.

Using a variety of sensory items and books and props which you may already have in your setting tie up the boxes with ribbons and think about some possible uses during times of the day for them:

1. Greeting Time/Goodbye Time:

Do you use a song to say hello to the children in the morning? Maybe use a photograph of each child in a box to find them and say "Hello!" then use again for "Goodbye" time.

Take 5 Things.... Using Lycra

Engaging the children with you in exploring Lycra gives the opportunity to play creatively and have lots of fun.

1. A sheet of lycra
2. Balloons
3. Collection of ‘monkeys’
4. Collection of ‘teddies’
5. Collection of ‘leaves’

• Remember that Lycra is an open ended product
• Don’t think about the outcome of the play just observe what the children do as they join you.
• Their actions will lead to your next steps.
• Watch for the children’s leads as you invite them to gather around the Lycra.