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Mischief Mouse's collection of craft activities for preschool and early years.
Printable resources to help support play - colouring, mark making, labelling, promoting, engaging and extending..
Magical Mammoth's recipes to play with and recipes to eat ..
Stitch Squirrel provides a little tree space for some needle and thread projects  - handmade resources to support learning and development.
Activities for math - Calculator caterpillar's activity ideas to support children's numeracy, reasoning and problem solving play.
Hope Hedgehog invites visitors to take a look through some articles of interest ...
Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.


Mischief Mouse - craft activity ideas Craft ideas for play
 Themed preschool activities
    
Sun craft activity
Collage inner sun circles with shiny, reflective and textured materials then position inside a border of sun bursts, rays made by dragging paint outwards with forks.

Once dry, trim if necessary and glue together.

sun craft activity for preschool safety awareness
sun Resources needed

For the inner sun  source scissors, glue, shiny and flat collaging materials, a copy of the sun template or free hand circle

For the outer rays a larger circle of paper, red, yellow and white paint and forks

Sun outline template
Please click to open the sun template in a new window ..
sun    Conversational topics
  What does the sun feel like?
  What is the sun?
sun    Staying safe in the sun
protecting against ..
-- sun burn
-- eye damage
-- dehydration
sun     What good things does the sun do ..
Keeps our Planet warm
Help plants to grow
Helps our bodies make Vitamin D




Dandelion yellow flowers - circles and blooms





sun   Ideas from nature

Use flowers and play items from outside to see circular, spiky, warm and yellow ..

More activity resources ..
sun   Sun safety rhyme page + summer suns on water
sun   Photo sensitive art paper on amazon.co.uk 
sun   Sunny yellow playdough page
sun    Patrick paints a picture by Saviour Pirotta and Linzi West and Kipper's Sunny day sun    



Patrick paints a picture - yellow golden corn fields ..
Kipper's sunny day..






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