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do with your minded children so we can share them with other Childminders and parents
visiting the site.
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St Georges Day -
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St George's Day
23rd April
St George's Day provides lot of creative opportunities, around the themes of the St George's Cross, the red rose and dragons!
Why not celebrate the day with a
St George's Day party!
Make Invite cards to the party using white card and red paper either in a cross or in a rose. Whilst making these the children might like to make St George's Day cards for their families.
For the food:
Top a pizza with cheese and a red cross of either tomatoes or ketchup.Make
fairy cakes, or use rich tea/ digestive biscuits. Ice white and then decorate with
a red cross, you could use red icing in a piping bag, or red 'shoe lace' sweets cut
to size.
For decorations:
Make St George's Day Flags using paper/card and drinking straws.
Hang red and white paper chains around the room.To decorate the table make red roses,
using red tissue paper or card, drinking straws or pipe cleaners. Display in a polystyrene
drinking cup decorated with red flags. The children might like to colour in dragon
pictures to use as posters. A large selection of dragon colouring sheets are available
to download from http://www.coloring.ws/dragons1.htm
For a party game:
Make a dragon pinata. Decorate a cardboard box with tissue paper
and stick on a picture of a dragon.Fill with presents and provide the children with
a toy sword to hit it with. Face painting the flag, the children can do these on
their arms themselves (remember to get parental permission and check for allergies)
Make a pass the parcel, using white paper and red tape on each layer.
Making it fancy dress and ask the children to either come dressed as St George, a Dragon or simply red and white clothing.
For older children and the more adventurous, over the Easter holidays, try making this papermache shield with a dragon on the front.
www.dltk-
or a castle for St George to live in
Tel 020 8658 6293
Flames from the dragon's breath could kill .
At first the people offered sheep every day,
to pacify the dragon, but when all the
sheep were gone the dragon was hungry and demanded more ...
The king offered a reward
to save his daughter.
A knight called George was passing by....
He offered to help
and when the dragon came, spitting flames from its mouth and smoke from the nostrils,
George was not frightened and killed the evil dragon with his sword.
The Legend of
George and the Dragon
Welcome to a page full of fun and ideas to keep the children (and you!) entertained for hours. Arts, crafts and cooking activities are a great way of helping the children to become creative but they also cover lots of other areas of the Foundation Stage curriculum and Birth to three matters framework. For example when using scissors, demonstrate to the children how to carry and pass them safely, sharing them, counting how many pairs there are and discuss why some have different coloured handles (left and right handed pairs).
Many childminders now link their activities to a theme. The following website has an excellent selection of calendars providing dates and useful background information on National Awareness days/weeks, festivals in the UK, Religious Festivals and the Christian Church along with unusual and strange events in the UK.
