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Tuesday Tots – 21st May

By Cerys Parker

Tuesday Tots Weekly Play Party for the Under 5's brought to you by Rainy Day Mum, Growing a Jeweled Rose, Learn with Play at Home and In Lieu of Preschool

Welcome back to another week of Tuesday Tots.

Last week 145 posts for under 5′s were linked up – it was wonderful to see so many different ideas coming together and being shared.

I’m going to feature some of my favourites later this week in the mean time please come and link up your new, old and fantastic posts for the under 5′s.

If you do link up a short text link or grabbing the badge above (can be found in the sidebar on the Tuesday Tots page) is really appreciated but not required to join in.

Little Blue and Little Yellow Colour Exploration

By Cerys Parker

Exploring Color Theory with the Leo Lionni book Little Blue and Little Yellow

This months Virtual Book club for kids author is Leo Lionni and we’ve chosen 2 books first I’m sharing our exploration of colour with the book Little Blue and Little Yellow (this is an affiliate link).

I have never read any Leo Lionni books and as colours is something that I am working with T on I thought it sounded a great book to read with them both. In the end J got the most out of it. The story is about Little Blue and Little Yellow and the fun that they have being friends – but underlying it

Summer Activities for Toddlers

By Cerys Parker

Summer is on it’s way and I know some of your will be breaking up very soon for the summer vacation so I’ve put together some fantastic fun summer activities for Toddlers to enjoy and keep those hot long days fun. So here goes our Summer Activities for Toddler round-up.

Summer play for Toddlers

Keep cool with some Instant Pudding and Ice sensory play this summer

Pirate Party Small World Play get the water table set up and start the pirate play off keeping cool as the waves hit the sides as you go

When it gets too

Exploring Artists – Eric Carle

By Cerys Parker

Exploring Artists with Toddlers and Preschoolers - Eric Carle and the process that he goes through to create his illustrations

One of the first artists that many children are exposed to are children’s book illustrators – by far my favourite illustrator/artists is Eric Carle so when J posed the questions “How does he make his pictures?” we decided to explore Eric Carle as an artists as opposed to an Author.

Our first stop of was looking at the pictures and working out what makes his work stand out – J decided it was the colours used and the way it looked it was different to the illustrations by Alex Scheffler in the Gruffalo. We looked at the books that

5 DIY Music Ideas for Tots

By Cerys Parker

Learning about music with kids - 5 DIY musical ideas for Kids featured on Rainy Day Mum

We are a music loving household – the CD player always has a children’s music CD in it or the radio is on. Musical instruments can be found around the house and both J and T will burst into spontaneous song at various points during the day. So seeing DIY Music Ideas and some ways for Tots to play and learn about music were a great idea for us to feature on Rainy Day Mum this week.

Red Ted Art – shared with us on Tuesday Tots last week how to make a guitar. I love the

Tuesday Tots 14th May 2013

By Cerys Parker

Welcome back to another week of Tuesday Tots your one stop shop for play, crafts, learning and family fun for the under 5′s. Co-hosted each week by myself

Growing a Jeweled Rose

Learn with Play at home

and

In Lieu of Preschool

If you are linking up Tuesday Tots please check out the guidelines, you are also welcome to come and link up any old posts as well as I love discovering what you were up to when your tots were even younger.

Each week I feature

Backyard Barbecue Bloghop

By Cerys Parker

Announcing the first annual Backyard Barbecue Bloghop!

Our Barbecue was cleaned off over last weekend (and promptly discovered that bits hadn’t faired well over the winter so need replacing before it’s functional) our deck was washed and prepared for summer time play and entertaining outside and I got sorting out the kids toys and bits and bobs that had been put away for the Autumn and Winter making them easily accessible to come out as soon as the rain stops and the sun comes out.

With so many fun summer activities I jumped at the chance to co-host the