{"id":608,"date":"2020-10-05T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T21:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/twelfth-strongstart\/?p=608"},"modified":"2020-10-05T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T00:03:10","slug":"fall-and-fallen-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/twelfth-strongstart\/2020\/10\/05\/fall-and-fallen-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall and Fallen Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall is a wonderful time to enjoy\u00a0nature and its fallen treasures. When you go\u00a0on walks\u00a0with your children look on the ground and on the grass.\u00a0On my last walk\u00a0I picked\u00a0up some\u00a0fallen branches and twigs and found some bark on the ground. It inspired me to use some everyday materials: pipe cleaners, yarn, gardening twists, some sheer fabric to decorate the branches. You can use\u00a0almost anything, be creative!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-612 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/twelfth-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/92FF5031-5F87-4773-87E8-350CAA40FD85-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/twelfth-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/92FF5031-5F87-4773-87E8-350CAA40FD85-1.jpeg 640w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/twelfth-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/92FF5031-5F87-4773-87E8-350CAA40FD85-1-300x224.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Show your child how to twist pipe cleaners and\u00a0wind yarn\u00a0around the twigs, for younger children I used some hair elastics and colorful elastics on the bark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-586 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/twelfth-strongstart\/files\/2020\/09\/ECEACA6D-AC03-48B2-B65D-0EB978542B1F-e1601583967424-300x224.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/twelfth-strongstart\/files\/2020\/09\/ECEACA6D-AC03-48B2-B65D-0EB978542B1F-e1601583967424-300x224.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/twelfth-strongstart\/files\/2020\/09\/ECEACA6D-AC03-48B2-B65D-0EB978542B1F-e1601583967424.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Older children can even\u00a0choose two colours\u00a0and you can playfully show\u00a0them how to make a pattern: red, blue red, blue&#8230;I wonder what\u00a0comes\u00a0next?<\/p>\n<p>You will be happy to know that while having fun and talking with you, exploring different textures and learning the words for: rough, smooth, bumpy, strechy, prickly, wooly, twisty, poky\u00a0etc.,\u00a0children\u00a0will be using their fine motor skills, gaining\u00a0the strength in their hands and\u00a0wrists needed\u00a0for more complex activities like writing.<\/p>\n<p>What other ways you can use your sticks or twigs and branches? Children use their imagination in their play and a stick becomes a magic wand! You can trace a stick on the fence to make some wonderful sounds! Playing in dirt with sticks is something children do all over the world. Don&#8217;t forget to send me some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The boy in this picture discovered a\u00a0hole\u00a0in the ground. After digging a bit, he decided to use the stick to measure how deep\u00a0it was. What a profound hands-on sensory and math experience!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-611 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/twelfth-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/2BF5E185-B16A-4B4A-AF64-0FBC1C23EA47.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/twelfth-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/2BF5E185-B16A-4B4A-AF64-0FBC1C23EA47.jpeg 640w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/twelfth-strongstart\/files\/2020\/10\/2BF5E185-B16A-4B4A-AF64-0FBC1C23EA47-300x224.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall is a wonderful time to enjoy\u00a0nature and its fallen treasures. When you go\u00a0on walks\u00a0with your children look on the ground and on the grass.\u00a0On my last walk\u00a0I picked\u00a0up some\u00a0fallen branches and twigs and found some bark on the ground. 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