EYC Ideas

Blacklands Booklet Table of contents

Lets have some fun……………….Page 2
Outdoor exploring………………..Page 3
Science experiments…………….Page 4
Baking………………………………….Page 5 & 6

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Lets have some fun………

How are you feeling? Silly walks
Draw a remote control, then draw different emotions in When out walking you might want to have a little bit
a box such as happy, sad, angry, upset etc. of fun…
Pretend the remote controls your face, such as press Begin by pretending one part of your body could be a
happy face and make a happy face. hand, foot, leg, arm is pulling you along and being
Let your child(ren) press the button(emotions) and you very silly, you call out “help”.
change your facial expression to which button they You ask your child(ren) what part of your body is
press. Then ask does the remote work on them, can it being silly, ask them if they can copy your silly action
work on their toys. During this talk to your child about or is a part of their body being silly. You can copy
all the emotions on the remote and why you may feel your child’s movements too.
happy, sad etc. The children might get excited but it’s all for fun
This is a great idea especially during lockdown as things when out walking.
are different for young children and they are feeling The focus is on body movements, brain development
different emotions. and having fun.
You can add more to this,
You can add the pause, play, stop buttons too, fast Remember!! Continue with road safety rules
forward, rewind. and make sure your child understands to play
Children can design their own remote. this game we must stay on the pavement and
stop when we come to the end of the
By starcatchers pavement to make sure it is safe to cross
safely. We shouldn’t be running away!!!

Check out Starcatchers on facebook for fun ideas
too.

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Outdoor exploring.
20 things to do when outdoors.

Explore a cobweb and Read/make up a story Paint a picture of what you Identify 3 different birds Collect rocks, stones and
make spiders cool. when outdoors. see when outdoors. paint with them water.

Have a picnic out the back Make binoculars out of Collect sticks, stones on the Get your wellies on and find Collect natural resources
garden. toilet rolls or cut in half ground find a river to a big puddle to jump in to. when out a walk, like
kitchen roll with string and through them in to. leaves, sticks, petals and
spy something through take them home and see
them. what you can do with them

Find a comfortable spot Find different colours of Use some old pots, pans, Find a stick and draw, write Get your waterproof and
and lie down on the ground objects, could be finding wooden spoons to make
and look out for the your child’s favourite some music. in the dirt. wellies on and go and sing
different shapes of the colour.
clouds. in the rain.

Find a big hill when out a Explore for some bugs, use Go on a bug hunt to Sinking/floating. Fill a clear Make a wish on a
walk to roll, slide down. positional, directional explore for variation of box with water and then dandelion.
language. “Is the spider on bugs. explore what objects can
the top of the brick”, “Look float and sink in the box.
the spider is going
forward”.

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Science experiments. Skittles in a plate.

Rainbow in a bowl. Place skittles around the side of the plate. Pour a little bit of
water in to the middle of the plate and watch what happens…

Depending on the size of the Make an eruption
bowl. Fill it half with water, then
add in shaving foam enough to Find a space in your garden, possibly on stones, rocks. You will need a clear
cover the bowl and so you can’t container, could be an empty, clean 2litre bottle or clear glass jar.
see any water from the top. Add ½ cup of water, ¼ cup vinegar, ¼ cup of washing up liquid in to the
Then add in variations of food container.
colouring on top of the shaving Add in the colour you wish the eruption to be, can be paint or food colouring.
foam. Then when ready for the eruption add in 2 tablespoon of baking soda in to the
Then watch the food colouring container. Stand back and see what will happen.
drop down to the bottom of the
bowl. 4

Baking.

Why not try some of our delicious baking recipes. Through baking there is so much fun, learning and time
together to be had.

Banana Ingredients (makes 1 loaf) Chocolate Ingredients
Bread krispies
½ cup of butter 300g Milk cooking
1 cup of light brown sugar chocolate
2 beaten eggs 5 full ladles of rice krispies
4 bananas(finely crushed) Cupcake cases
1 and ½ cups self raising flour Mini marshmallows if
1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda desired
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
½ teaspoon salt

Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees Break chocolate into a microwaveable bowl
Cream butter and sugar together Melt chocolate in a microwave for approx 2 mins
Add eggs and crushed bananas Add krispies in mix
Combine well Add in mini marshmallows if desired
Sieve together flour, soda and salt Put into cake cases and allow to set
Add to creamed butter and sugar
Add vanilla 5
Mix until combined… do not over mix
Pour mixture into lined loaf tin
Bake in pre heated oven for 55 minutes
Leave in loaf tin for 10mins once out the oven
transfer onto a wire rack to cool.

Chocolate chip Ingredients (make 20 Cupcakes Ingredients (makes 18
cookies cookies)
½ cup butter (125g) cupcakes)
¾ cup light brown sugar 200g butter
¼ cup white sugar 200g caster sugar
2 tablespoon syrup 200g self raising flour
2 teaspoon vanilla 3 eggs
essence 3 tablespoon milk
1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 & ¾ cups of plain flour Pinch of salt
¼ teaspoon bicarbonate
of soda Pre-heat oven to 190 degrees
1/3 teaspoon salt Soften butter by beating
¾ cup of chocolate chips Add sugar, sieved flour, salt, eggs, vanilla essence and milk
Whish with electric mixer until smooth, light and creamy
Pre heat oven to 180 degrees. Fill 1/3 of cupcake cases and bake 15 minutes or until a pale
Melt butter in microwave golden colour
Combine sugars and mix with electric mixer until creamy Cool on a wire rack
Add syrup and mix with electric mixer until creamy Ice and decorate when cool
Add flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt
Mix together with wooden spoon, if very wet add a few
more spoonfuls of flour
Add chocolate chips
Roll into balls- a wee bit smaller than a ping pong ball
Place on greaseproof paper
Place on tray
Bake for about 10 minutes
Allow to cool on greaseproof paper for about 10 minutes
and then transfer on to wire rack.

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