Are you struggling to motivate your practitioners?
Perhaps you want to extend your child’s learning at home? Our team of Early Years experts are igniting knowledge and excitement back into the childcare sector!
Check out our activity plans, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter but most importantly, come and Blossom with us!
1) We are a business growth tool.
- Receive diary updates, highlighting special moments
- Be involved in their child’s learning and development with Learning Journeys
- Continue their child’s education at home with Home Observations
2) How to carry out our Blossom Tree Activity
- White, pink, baby pink and brown paint
- Cotton bud
- Card
- Next, paint your childs hand and print it onto the card! – Wash your hands and get ready to Blossom!
Top tip:
Parents and practitioners, to engage and enjoy the activity with your child – why not paint your own hand too!
You have completed your activity!
Too difficult for your little ones?
Why not simplify our activity by encouraging free panting with our Blossom colours. Your child can use diffierent strokes with less adult guidance – it doesn’t matter if your end product does not look like a tree – it should be your child’s own master piece. You could also encourage your child to use their fingers to make marks on the page.
Want to extend your child’s learning?
Try colour mixing! Introduce a variety of colours and see their creativity flourish.
Development Factors for Parents
Fine Motor Skills
- To encourage a pincer grip
- To aid controlled hand movements
Communicating
- To mimic sounds and basic words
- To support conversation and understanding of tasks
- To spark conversations in relation to real life
Bonding and Character Building
- To stimulate imagination and character
- To build interaction on and one to one or in small groups
Self Care
- Washing your hands can be an activity too!
Early Years Framework Links for Practitioners
Across all age groups
- To encourage a pincer grip
- To aid controlled hand movements
- Physical Development
- Expressive Arts and Design
- Communication and Language
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Mathematics
- Understanding of the world
