Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts

Friday, 20 March 2020

Buchempfehlung - book recommendation 1

Disney Ideen Buch - Disney Ideas Book

Yes, you see correctly, I ordered the book twice. Amazon had 2 different delivery dates for them, both roughly in 2-3 weeks, so I ordered both to see which one got here faster. Guess what, they both showed up at the same time 3 days after I had ordered them. The English version is 5€ cheapter, so if you don't care about the language, buy that one, they're both absolutely identical! 😉 I'm either going to return my duplicate, or I'll put on in my private crafting library, and one in my school material library.


I flipped through the book and I have to say, I really like it! It has two table of contents, one is sorted by topic, like "costumes", the other one is sorted by Disney characters. I love that it is not only a craft book but it also offers games, physical activities, and experiments.
Some crafts take a lot of materials or skills, so I'd say the book aim at ages 8-14. For sewing projects you definitely need to have an adult help you. And you need to be able to use scissors well, there is a lot of cutting required in most projects. Only a few ones looked like I can do them with my 4yo without having to do most of the work myself. But I'm excited to give them a try! I love the narrating stones! So we'll spend some time painting stones and tell each other stories. I'll let you know how that goes!




Free things to enjoy during the pandemic

Many companies and websites have risen to the occasion and offer free things to teach and educate, to entertain, or to workout at home. The ones I personally like, I will share here. I'll keep adding to the list when I find new things. Some offers will be limited to certain countries, unfortunately, so most links will be available in Europe and I hope my American readers will have access to them as well.

1) Wash your lyrics
https://washyourlyrics.com/
Tired of singing happy birthday to get your 20 seconds of hand washing done? Enter song title and singer here and get your personal hand washing poster for your favorite song!

2) Schlosspark Theater Berlin - Schmetterlinge sind frei
https://www.facebook.com/SchlosspaarkTheaterBerlin/
The Schlosspark Theater is streaming their performance of Butterflies are free every evening at 8 on their facebook page for free since their theatre had to close

3) Scholastic teaching material from Pre-9k
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html?promo_code=6294&eml=CM/smd/20200312//txtl/sm/ed&linkId=84269747&fbclid=IwAR1Xr6B76nEXeukvjev2EWgDkNam9ruRgFGH9SNvrqLvYXALd-gRJqqRKwA

4) Audible - free audio books
https://stories.audible.com/discovery/enterprise-discovery-21103929011?ref=adbl_ent_anon_ds_ds_dbb_0-0

5) Makerist
Kostenlose online Kurse bis 25.3.
6) Bügelperlen
https://www.buegelperlenvorlagen.com/
I don't know if you all know what ironing beads are: they're little plastic beads you place on a board, then cover them with a sheet of aluminum foil, place a dish towel on it, and then use an iron to melt the plastic so they melt together. I used to do those as a kid myself and loved it. This website will give you loads of free patterns to make with your kids.

7) Colouring Books
- Salamanders
- Kokadi Babywearing 

8) Easter Activities for kindergarten/daycare kids
https://www.kigaportal.com/ng/ng6/de/ideen/eltern

9) Rezeptbuch gegen Langeweile
https://www.gwrs-fichtenberg.de/archiv/schuljahr-2019-2020/rezeptb%C3%BCchlein-gegen-langeweile/
PDF Download - Aktivitäten im Alltag, Experimente, Sachen zum Bauen und mehr

10) Nähen/Sewing
- Kuscheltiere /plushies
https://cholyknight.com/ lots of free patterns for toys

11) Papier schöpfen - how to make your own paper (German)
https://m.geo.de/geolino/basteln/4346-rtkl-bastelanleitung-papier-selber-machen?fbclid=IwAR2kOHhbqmzKNbW8hkTNFD0qxuNAU0E37kaNlkT2NRC3bF1qbe_WuC92DZU

12) Wochenpläne U3 und 3+
https://www.prokita-portal.de/wochenplan/
weekly things to do with kids under 3 and 3+