![]() If you’re very lucky you create steaming reactions. When you first add it the ice crackles and starts to melt almost immediately. We used a combination of rock salt used to keep the path clear and table salt which was easier for him to pour. LBM added the ice using tongs (and his winter Olympics mittens because this was serious winter sport!) and began mixing salt in. I’d made some coloured ice cubes the morning it had first snowed using food colouring but they didn’t freeze in time so this was a good opportunity to use them. It was a lovely sunny day too so the ice really sparkled and picked up the light. ![]() ![]() That had more potential for exploring something interesting on a bigger scale than an ice cube so I changed his plan! We spent a while exploring the shape of it and looking at the thin piece round the edge that had lots of cracks in it. But I also discovered the large lump of ice which had formed in a trug. I went out onto the roof terrace to see what snow was left and discovered very little, mainly icy snow. Even though the first dump of snow was fairly short lived, LBM asked to make some more snow ice cream. This rather cold winter weather that has arrived has given LBM so many opportunities to explore on a big scale. Can’t wait for it to stop raining and warm up now. I’d recommend these chalks though because they have scientific as well as creative value and there’s loads of colours to use. That’s the best bit about kids though – they ask you why and sometimes you just don’t know. I have to admit to needing to do a bit of research now into the differences between 2D and 3D so I can explain why. Watching him draw whilst wearing the 3D glasses was interesting too because the stars and rocket overlapped each other. On both occasions it tested both our powers of understanding! We ended up drawing a rocket (well I did) but LBM added the window and then shooting starts which criss crossed through the rocket. We did something similar with a circle with a yellow border and a green centre and the frame looked as if it was jumping out. A red centre with a blue border really jumped out when you put the 3D glasses on and LBM reached out and tried to pick it up. He spent a while looking at different things around the house like lights which become rainbow rimmed and a pair of scissors that really did become strange looking and as if they were floating. LBM had been wearing the glasses whilst I got dressed this morning (helpfully commenting that my skin looked funny. We drew some pictures using the chalk and following the instructions to make 3D shapes that worked and it was a great lesson in understanding depth perception. Apparently that’s more helpful for when you want to clear away any drawings! Black paper works just as well though. I had planned on going outside and drawing on the car park and it’s lovely clean tarmac but it was raining (and cold). It’s half price in the Early Learning Centre and I admit even paying half price for some 3D chalks seemed expensive. I bought a Crayola outdoor chalk set with 3D glasses. I didn’t really believe this could be true until we tried it this morning. Finding the image in one of the original books was the best I could get! If anyone also knows which episodes have Peso playing his xylophone please let me know so I can get a screen shot of it. I’ve hopefully attached the links here so you can print them off yourself and share them with any Octonauts fans. Can you hear the B at the beginning? “kind of thing. Some of them aren’t strictly linked to the letter (like the Gups but he wanted to include all of the Gups and I couldn’t fit them all in the box for G.) So far we’ve just used them to talk about the pictures and link the sounds to letters i.e.” B is for…? Barnacles. ![]() Handy!Īnyway – I have created an Octonauts alphabet for LBM to help develop his vocabulary and learn his letters. I love how films frequently have characters with names that begin with the tricky letters – searching around to find characters beginning with V, Q X and Z are so easy it’s almost as if the creative team behind every film approach character naming by going through the alphabet. I’ve made alphabets in the past for other children including a Star Wars and a Cars one. A personalised alphabet helps with letter recognition, vocabulary and makes learning relevant. Admittedly none of us can pronounce Humuhumunukunukuapua’a but we’re working on it! A long time ago I started to develop picture and word alphabets that were linked to a theme and things that children are interested in. I’m all for building on this interest because it’s one of the best TV programmes for his age group and means he can identify exactly what kind of sea creature it is – “No mummy it’s not a shark. LBM seems to be like every other child who’s three and really likes the Octonauts.
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