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D i s c o v e r y D a y N u r s e r y
Nursery Activities and Events Spring 2019
Here is a list of activities that we will be celebrating and discussing over the next term (January – April 2019).
Please take note of the 'Ideas for Home' box that will enable you to join us!
Date and Event/Activity
What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
3rd January – Tamaseseri – Ball Catching Festival (Japan)
Practice our ball skills by throwing, rolling & catching different sized balls.
Find out where Japan is.
Taste some Japanese food.
Make our own Papier Mache balls and decorate them.
Go to the park to play ball games
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Date and Event/Activity
What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
4th January – World Braille Day
Find out about Louis Braille
Borrow some Braille books from the library
What does our name look like in Braille
What is it like to be blind?
Read a story with Braille text
13th January – International Kite Festival (India)
Make our own kites; what material world best?
Trip to the beach to fly our kite.
Look at different kites.
Find out how to make and also fly a kite.
Trip to Goring Gap to watch the kite-surfers
Go fly a kite with your family
17th January – Kids Inventors Day
Find out about a significant invention, e.g. the Telephone
Carry out some experiments, e.g. what is magnetic?
Junk Model our own inventions
Look for inventions around the nursery
Trip to the Science Museum
Look at Inventions at home
18th January – Winnie the Pooh Day
Read Winnie the Pooh Stories
Colour Winnie the Pooh pictures
Create our own Winnie the Pooh
Make honey biscuits
Create our own Hundred Acre Woods
Visit Hartfield where AA Milne lived
Play Pooh Sticks
Watch Winnie the Pooh Movies
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Date and Event/Activity
What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
19th January – Tulip Day, Holland
Plant our own tulips.
What shape is the tulip? How does it differ from other flowers?
Where is Holland?
Make our own tulips, what materials are best.
Trip to the Garden Centre to find out about different flowers, looking at colours and smell. What one do you like best?
21st January – Hugging Day
Talk about why we hug people?
Read Hugless Douglas
Do something nice to make someone happy
Gives lots of hugs and snuggles
24th January – Belly Laugh Day
Tell our favourite jokes
Do something funny to make everyone laugh?
Create our own silly selfies
Pull funny faces
Watch a funny film
Have a tickling competition
25th January – Burns Night
Haggis Tasting
Scottish Flag Colouring
Go to library to look for books on Burns Night
Look at Burns poems
Look at our family Tartan and designing you own.
Get recipe for Burns supper
Go to the library to look for books on Burns Night
Listen to ‘Addressing the Haggis’ Poem
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Date and Event/Activity
What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
26th January – Australia Day
Can we find Australia on the map?
Sing Waltzing Matilda
Find out about Australia; what animals are specific to Australia
Can you throw a boomerang
Plan a trip to Australia!!!
26th January – 2nd February – Story Telling Week
Create our own stories
Tell our favourite stories
Who is our favourite author?
Share a story every night at bedtime
29th January – Puzzle Day
Can we complete a puzzle?
Can we make our own puzzle?
What is the largest puzzle we can do?
Do some jigsaw puzzles
2nd February – Groundhog Day
Find out about Groundhog Day and the meaning behind it.
Create a weather chart to track the weather
Make a shadow puppet.
Talk about Season and how winter turns into spring, what happens in spring?
Take a walk in the garden; can you see your shadow?
Look for signs of spring in your garden
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Date and Event/Activity
What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
3rd February – Setsubun Mantoro, Lantern Festival
Make lanterns
Trip to the library to look for books on the lantern festival and lights
Look at electricity and where light comes from
Part of the lantern festival is solving riddles, can we make up and solve our own riddles
Release paper lanterns
Solve riddles
Have a Japanese meal
5th February – Chinese New Year (Year of the Pig)
Dragon Dance
Chinese Writing
Chinese Food Tasting
Chopstick Painting
Make red envelopes
Create our own Fortune Cookies
Go to a Chinese restaurant as a family
Make Chinese food
Go to the library to look for Chinese books
Make your own Chinese Dragon Dance
14th February – Valentine’s Day
Make Valentine’s Day Cards
Look at photos of special people to us – bring in pictures from home.
Make special gifts for our loved ones
Visit loved ones
Exchange cards to loved ones
Make valentines cupcakes
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What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
17th February – Random Act of Kindness Day
Be nice to our friends
Talk about how we can help other people
Visit an old peoples home for crafts and story time
Do something nice for someone you don’t know
Visit a friend you haven’t seen for a while
Make a meal for a homeless person
18th February – Canadian Family Day
Talk about who is in our family
Draw a picture of our family
Learn about Canada
Have a Nursery Family Tea
Have a family day out
Visit family you haven’t seen for a while
Have a family meal
20th February – Love your Pet day
Bring a photo of your pet to nursery
What variety of pets do we have, can we create a graph showing which animals are the most popular
Arrange a visit from some of our pets
What kind of people would you like to have?
Role play pet shop.
Do something special for our pets
Take our dogs for a walk
Give them a special treat
22nd February – World Thinking Day
Find out about The Baden Powell’s and the different clubs they set up (rainbows, cubs, brownies etc.)
Think of something nice that we can do to help our friends and family
Do something nice for someone
Visit a neighbour or family member and offer to help the in some way
Attend a local Thinking Day Service
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Date and Event/Activity
What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
26th February – Tell a Fairy Tale Day
What are our favourite fairy tales
Roleplay our favourite stories
Write our own fairy tale
Visit the library to look for fairy tale books
Enjoy a fairy tale at bedtime
1st March – St David’s Day
Make Leek and Potato Soup
Find out how to say some words in Welsh
Make a Welsh Flag
Talk about the Welsh Dragon
Make Welsh Cakes
Trip to Wales
Find Wales on the map
2nd – 5th March – Battle of the Oranges (Italy)
Look at different types of Oranges
Squeeze your own Orange juice to drink
Orange Art Work
Make a red hat for the battle
Plant an orange tree
Make some orange jelly and have an orange themes picnic
3rd March – National Anthem Day
Learn Our National Anthem
Listen to some National Anthems
What are the anthems of countries you have visited on holidays
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Date and Event/Activity
What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
5th March – Pancake Day
Make Pancakes at Nursery
Sing rhymes about pancakes
Let the children try pancake tossing
Pancake races
Make pancakes
How high can you toss your pancake?
5th March – Learn what your name means Day
Write our names
Use google to find the meanings of our names
Trace our names and decorate our names
Find out about your family names
6th March – Ash Wednesday
Talk about things we can give up for lent
Listen to the Easter Story
Visit Christ Church
Give up something for Lent
7th March – World Book Day
Make a book display, featuring our favourite characters
Read our favourite stories
Dress up as our favourite story character
Visit the library for a story telling session
Visit the library
Check theatre listings for a stage show of our favourite stories
Bedtime stories
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What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
8th March – International Woman’s Day
Who are our favourite women
Look at famous women
What jobs can women do?
11th March – Commonwealth Day
Look at what Commonwealth means
What countries are in the Commonwealth?
Design a flag for our own countries
Do a Google search with your children and look at some of the Commonwealth countries
11th – 15 March – Comic Relief
Look in to what makes us laugh
Dress up in funny clothes
Face paining
Tell jokes
Sponsored event
Do something funny for money
Watch some of the programmes
17th March – St Patrick’s Day
Trace a Shamrock
Paint Green clovers
Make shamrock shaped pictures
Make leprechaun hats
Irish Dancing
Make Soda Bread
Look for Shamrocks in your garden
Talk about Ireland
Have a Guinness!!
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Date and Event/Activity
What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
20th March – Holi (Hindu Holiday)
Listen to the Story of Pahlad and Hoilika
Create a bright coloured picture
Find out what Holi is
Have a Holi party at home
Create a bright family picture with your whole family
31st March – Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day Cards
Talk about why mummies are special
Draw portraits of your mummies
Create a bouquet for our mums
Have a mummy’s day tea
Spoil your mummy; do all the chores, make her breakfast in bed
1st April – April Fool’s Day
Tell each other a joke
Explore the meaning behind April Fool’s Day
Paly an April Fools Trick on a family member
10th April – National Siblings Day
Talk about our families, do we have any brothers or sisters?
Why are our siblings special?
Paint a family portrait
Visit any siblings and family who don’t live with us
Buy our siblings a gift
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Date and Event/Activity
What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
13th – 15th April – Songkran Water Festival (Thailand)
Find out what the Songkran Water Festival is
Lots and lots of water play
Find out about Thailand?
Can we say any Thai words
Have a Thai Meal
16th April – Wear your PJ’s Day
Come to nursery in your Pyjamas
Make your own Pyjamas
Buy some new pyjamas
Go to work in your pyjamas
21st April – Easter Sunday
Easter Egg Hunt
Make Easter cards
Make chocolate nests
Make rabbits and chicks
Make an Easter Bonnet
Listen to the Easter Story
Visit a National Trust house for an egg hunt
Have a family roast dinner
21st April – Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday
Make a birthday card for the Queen
Make our own crown
How old is the Queen going to be?
Junk model castles
Sing the national Anthem
Visit Arundel Castle
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What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home
22nd April – Earth Day
Find the Earth in the Solar System.
Use the World Map to find out about the world, look at the different hemispheres, Equator, North and South Poles, continents etc.
Talk about how we ca help save the World
Look at recycling at nursery
Do we recycle at home
Look at ways in which we can help ‘save’ the world
23rd April – St George’s Day
Listen to the story of St George and the dragon
Make a St Georges Flag
Have an English Tea Party
Investigate all things English
Morris Dancing
Have a family Roast Dinner
Visit Highdown Gardens and look at the Rose Garden
23rd April – Prince Louis’s Birthday
Make a 1st birthday card
Have a birthday party
Make a birthday cake
Visit Kensington Palace