Day One: Learning fun for five-year-olds
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FOR PARENTS
VIDEO: Play ideas with a 5-year-old, with Occupational Therapist, Elise Easdown
Here’s some ideas from our resident OT and kid expert, Elise Easdown, about how to play in ways that foster your child’s motor skills, spatial awareness and brain development.
FOR KIDS
ACTIVITY: Outdoors colour scavenger hunt
You might not be able to go far into the great outdoors, but your backyard is still a world of wonders for your kid! Print out the sheet and get them to find something from nature in every colour. Bonus points for drawing it as well.
ACTIVITY: Two-ingredient cloud playdough
Unconfirmed rumours claim this is the best smelling, softest, cloud-like playdough around. It’s got just two ingredients, and you can add food colouring, glitter (if you’re insane), and form it into letter shapes for some added literacy upskilling and hand strengthening.
Get Active: GoNoodle Poppin’ Bubbles
Sing, dance, and POP, POP, POP the bubbles with Flo Yo!
Dancing is excellent for coordination, confidence, exercise and moving your body to get the endorphins flowing.
STORYTIME: What are spiderwebs made from?
Did you know that spiders have a secret superpower? They can spin their own homes in the form of strong and sticky spider webs. But how do they do it? Dr Andrew Walker from the University of Queensland, is our expert on creepy crawlies, and he swings in to tell us why spiderwebs are so strong.