New Thrifty Gifty - Organised for Christmas and all ocassions 2010- Santas Challenges

diddly74

This is what I can think of at this time in a morning:

Playdoh - make as required.
Painting/colouring - Potato prints
Do some magic painting! Draw a simple design on paper with a white candle or crayon. Make up watery paint in a strong colour and let your tot paint the paper to reveal the designs
Make masks

Play 'Follow my leader'/Simon Says
Make cakes
Make a tent
Read
Go swimming
Make an alphabet scrapbook. Cut out photos from magazines for each letter of the alphabet.
Colour games – go around the house finding thing that are a particular colour.
Make a sock puppet or too and do a show for Mummy.
Go for a bike ride
Go for a walk
Go on a bug hunt
Letter hunt – print off a load of letters and hide them.
Go to the zoo
Go to a farm
Make toilet roll tube binoculars and see what you can spy!
Pretend day at the seaside
Pretend picnic – with or without toys
Saucepan band – singing songs
Cinema for a daytime show

elysia2003

paper mache
Paper chains
Fun maize from ELC - like wotsits and they stick when they are wet. You can make models or just stick them on paper. DD2 and Neice, loved these and not too expensive either.
Make a rocket out of old tubs
Get a big box, and make it into a den (decorate outside first) or cut a hole and it can be a tv
Hide and seek (either themselves or a favourite toy give clues hotter or colder how close he is.
Balloon tennis (don't let it touch the floor)
Pretend you're on an island and there's sharks in the carpet.

Can't think of anything else at the moment.


EDIT: I presume he knows colours and shapes - print two red triangles and one green one (to confuse him) and the same with oblongs, diamonds, circles , and different colours etc. Then you could match either just triangles or the same colour triangles (ifyswim) - Laminate them for future use. You could either play SNAP or pairs (turn cards face down on the table and turn two over - if no match turn them over again and it's someone else's turn) If you get a pair, you get another go. Could do the same with Alphabet.

Animal dominoes.
I spy but with colours - I spy something red etc.
Feed the ducks

Ooh I'm on a roll.................

rufusdog52

Morning all

Very cold here this morning but youngest daughter has gone back to school. She thinks she has study leave this week as got her mocks next week but the school was shut on the day they were getting their letter home and a timetable. Yesterday she was sorting out her bits that she needs to get for Christmas. Wrote a list of what she had got and what still needs to be bought. Then I did her a deal, said if she gave my hair a trim I would give her a £10 Amazon voucher so she managed to order two things on there. I also bid on a couple of bits on Ebay for her so she hasnt got much more to do now, just a few bits in Primark when she next goes there.

OH is off today so we are going to sort our freezers out and make a shopping list for Friday, will be our last MrT shop before Christmas (online to deliver Sat if poss) and our Freezers are both half full so cant over order or it wont fit in.

esmer

WOW thats a LOT of ideas for this time in the morning.

Treasure hunts.
a voucher for a softplay day.
Paper masks using paper plates.
a Lego day.

Sorry my brain is not as awake as the others.

esmer

PS we have more snow Oh and the old snow is still there.

elysia2003

Rufus I had that trouble on Friday - I didn't check the fridge and freezer before I left. Put all the shopping away, I had two bags of frozen stuff left and no room. Had a re-jig and after throwing just odd bits away, I managed to get it all in. Fridge is stuffed too, Good thing it's so cold, we've had to store some of it in the porch.

Stepdad - came to take kids to school again today, I said I'll got back to walking them again tomorrow, now the ice has gone. No you Bl**dy won't he said - It's minus 8 out there!!! Looks like i'm not on school run for a while So I'm sat in bed, all cosy, with computer and a cup of tea. Bliss.

Thanks Esmer. I couldn't press the button 'cos someone nicked it.

I've just seen something crafty for the little ones. Won't take ong - Hopefully with gitter and glue, it could occupy half and hour. Make a circle out of card, put a slit in the side and roll it up into a cone, add buttons, or stickers or glitter and you have a christmas tree, something like this one. It might keep the kids amused for a bit during the hols.

This blog if you scroll down a bit - you can download some Christmas tree decs. Pint them onto card and get the kids to make them up with bits of ribbon to hang on the tree. There's loads of ideas on there. I want to make the elf shoes.

rufusdog52

elysia2003 wrote: »

Rufus I had that trouble on Friday - I didn't check the fridge and freezer before I left. Put all the shopping away, I had two bags of frozen stuff left and no room. Had a re-jig and after throwing just odd bits away, I managed to get it all in. Fridge is stuffed too, Good thing it's so cold, we've had to store some of it in the porch.

Stepdad - came to take kids to school again today, I said I'll got back to walking them again tomorrow, now the ice has gone. No you Bl**dy won't he said - It's minus 8 out there!!! Looks like i'm not on school run for a while So I'm sat in bed, all cosy, with computer and a cup of tea. Bliss.

Thats nice of him isnt it. Glad I dont have to do school runs anymore. Last week I had the grand kids one morning, youngest daughter said she will take them in for me as her school was shut. When it got an hour before time to pick them up it was so bad the snow that I was scared to go out so I texted her (out with her mates) and she was too far to come back. I was dreading it thinking I would have to go out in the snow so I texted my other daughter (their Mum) and she said she was coming home early from work and would pick them up her self. Big sigh of relief I can tell you.

I seem to have such a bad phobia of going out in it, seems worse than ever before. I think it might be because when we had that snow last year I tried to go up the town one morning and walked in the road to get up there but once near the town the paths were just a sheet of ice and I could see people sliding about trying to get through to the High St so I just turned back and came home. But even walking in the street I kept feeling my feet go from under me and I was just so scared I would go over.

esmer

elysia2003 wrote: »

Rufus I had that trouble on Friday - I didn't check the fridge and freezer before I left. Put all the shopping away, I had two bags of frozen stuff left and no room. Had a re-jig and after throwing just odd bits away, I managed to get it all in. Fridge is stuffed too, Good thing it's so cold, we've had to store some of it in the porch..

It was so cold here, mum put all the stuff outside and defrosted her freezer :rotfl:

elysia2003 wrote: »

Thanks Esmer. I couldn't press the button 'cos someone nicked it.

did I miss something? sorry being blond today :rotfl:

elysia2003 wrote: »

I've just seen something crafty for the little ones. Won't take ong - Hopefully with gitter and glue, it could occupy half and hour. Make a circle out of card, put a slit in the side and roll it up into a cone, add buttons, or stickers or glitter and you have a christmas tree, something like this one. It might keep the kids amused for a bit during the hols.

Brilliant! Just gave me an idea for table place settings. Small trees and the star with peoples namse on them

esmer

we have had a days snow in a few hours......... EVERY road near me is gridlocked, cars lorries everywhere.......... looks like Im walking to get wee one from nursery!

mary-op

Hello all :j
esmer - are you in scotland ? I've heard theres been snowfalls up there. We've still got snow laying fairly thick and its frozen solid. Heatings been on all day and I'm still cold :eek: Wish it would go away. I'm worried about getting to the hospital next week with OH for his appt. if its still like this:(

elysia - brilliant blog.......some smashing things on there.............love the felt tree..........I've done similar with some free fabric samples but not with buttons on............and what a lot of lovely buttons in that picture..............love buttons:rotfl:
So much so I made a button necklace this morning..........3 attempts........thread kept tangling but wasn't going to let it beat me.

OH been out and got me some wrapping paper so I can get stuck in wrapping some more bits tomorrow:j

edit: oops! Forgot to say, take care all, keep warm and stay safe if you're out and about