Create a 'frog life cycle' in four stages.

Eggs/frogspawn - tadpole - froglet - frog

Instructions:

1. First make black dots on bubble wrap to look like frogspawn.

2. Next scrunched up black tissue paper and sellotape in place. Add a black tail and googly eyes for a tadpole.

3. Then paint an egg carton cup green. Add 2 x black pipe cleaner legs and a green tail and googly eyes for the froglet.

4. Next, paint a second egg carton cup green. Add 4 x legs and googly eyes for the frog.

5. Finally glue each stage of the frog life cycle in order on the SCARF template.

You will need:

An egg carton (not plastic), bubble wrap, black marker, black paper, green paper, green paint, black pipe cleaners, googly eyes, glue and scissors and SCARF template.

See template here.

Create a butterfly painting

Instructions:

1. On one half of the paper paint some different coloured and different sized circles. (Use quite a bit of paint for this.)

2. Fold the paper in half and smooth over the paper with your hand for about 30 seconds.

3. Carefully open up the paper to reveal the butterfly pattern.

4. Finally add a body with a head and antenna in the middle of the wings.

You will need:

A large piece of paper folded in half and then opened up again. A selection of different coloured paints, paint brush.

Create a ‘Summer Seeds Cup’

Instructions:

1. First make a small hole in the bottom of the cup.

2. Glue the photo to the side of the cup or pot, with the top of the head level with the top of the cup or pot.

3. Next, fill the cup with soil.

4. Then sprinkle the seeds and add a layer of soil on to the top of them.

5. Give it a little water and place it in good sunlight on a window sill.

6. Check occasionally, and water to keep the soil moist as the seeds grow.

You will need:

A plastic cup or a small plant pot, some soil, seeds of your choice, (grasses and herbs work well) and a photo of the child's face, with the top of the head trimmed off. Please note the face photo looks best when it is the full size of the cup or plant pot.

‘When I grow up’ writing sheet

Instructions:

Have a circle time session with the children and share ideas about what they would like to be when they grow up and why.

Resources:

You may like to use our Early Years 1 writing template and coloured pencils and a pencil.

See template here.

What I would like to be when I grow up

This activity makes use of headband hats. Following the circle time discussion about what the children would like to be when they grow up, share the hat templates and encourage the children to colour them before cutting and then gluing them into a headband. They may need the expert help of their grown-up helpers to create a new hat that’s not included in the set, but encourage their ideas.

Instructions:

Colour and cut the hat.

Attach to the child’s card headband.

You will need:

Scissors, colouring pens, glue and a strip of card measured around the child's head and fastened like a crown with either a staple or glue. Job hats template.

See template here.