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Fun Morning Schedule for Primary School Kids

Fun Morning Schedule for Primary School Kids
Fun Morning Schedule for Primary School Kids

Getting smaller kids ready for school in the morning can be a daunting task, especially if its something new to the mother and child. Here’s a fun way to keep schedule of what to do in just a few quick steps. These are all activities a small kid should be able to do by themselves. They simply finish the task and drop the flash card in the “Done” holder.

The chores are written down in one word for small kids so they can familiarise themselves with the words associated to the actions.
Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

The activities I listed are:

  • Make bed
  • Feed the dog
  • Eat breakfast
  • Brush teeth
  • Get dressed
  • Brush hair
  • Grab lunch box
  • Grab backpack

What you’ll need:

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

 

Step 1:

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

Cut the rim of the container that the “Done” chores will go into so that it will be flush with the project board.

Step 2:

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

Use the Blits Stik Gel to attach a piece of project board to the container. Write “Done” on the container with Colour ‘n Paint twisters.

Step 3:

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

Create your own listed schedule in simple picture cards with project board, using Clear Glue Adhesive and round off the details with Wax Twisters and Colour ‘n Paint Twisters.

Step 4:

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

Paste the rough part of the velcro at the back of each flash card using Clear Glue. You can keep both sides together but make sure you paste it in the middle of the card so that all the velcro will align neatly when pasted to the board.

Step 5:

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

Now put glue on the soft side of the velcro and align all the cards to once again make sure the velcro will be in line when the cards are removed.

Step 6:
Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

Fix the container to the project board using Blits Stik Gel and Bob’s your uncle… easy as that! This is so easy you can do it with your primary school kid. Have fun!

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids

Morning shedule, Primary School Kids


 

This post is sponsored by Bostik smart adhesives.

Bostik, glue, crazy clay, back to school

 

Kids Activities Calendar with Bostik

Kids Activities Calendar with Bostik
Kids Activities Calendar with Bostik

Here’s a fun way of showing your Primary School kids what’s on the extra curricular calendar for the week. When they are still so small they are excited about what they are doing when, so this is a nice way for them to be aware of what happens what day. The time labels are there for the older ones who have an idea of time but mostly it helps for mom to also know whats going on!

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

 

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

What you’ll need:

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

Step 1:

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

Create your activity pieces with Bostik Crazy Clay and allow it to dry for about 6 hours. This clay is really easy to work with and dries into a nice spongy piece. I created activity pieces for swimming, hockey, maths classes, reading classes, tennis, piano lessons, art classes and birthday parties. 

Step 2:

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

Cut rectangles of about 5,5 x 4,5cm for the non-repetitive activities that only happens that week out of the lid of an ice cream container. Cut half of them in three for the time labels. Round off the edges with Bostik Crazy Clay or Bostik Glitter Glue. I did the non-repetitive labels with Crazy Clay and the time labels with glitter glue. Leave to dry.

Step 3:

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

Spray an ample amount of Bostik Art & Craft sprayable adhesive on the project boards and firmly press the felt to the board, smoothing it out to ensure there are no wrinkles. Turn the boards around and cut the squares out in line with the edges of the boards. Apply Bostik Clear Glue on the excess edges one by one before you close the tabs otherwise the glue may dry into the fabric too quickly and dry out too soon. 

Step 4:

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

If you use an A3 project board and measure the width in Landscape it should be around 60cm. That gives you 7cm per day of the week with one extra for the activity pieces, so draw lines with Bostik Glitter Glue 7cm apart, leaving one bigger space at the end for the extra pieces you won’t use for the week. Leave to dry.

Step 5:

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

Cut the rough part of the velcro in small squares, press the backside firmly on a glue dot, pull it from the film and stick it to the backs of all the activity pieces and labels.

Step 6:

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

I just love Bostik Sew Simple… I hardly use a needle anymore (oops). Apply it abundantly on both sides of the covered project boards, smooth out with your finger or a piece of cardboard and allow to dry for 10 minutes. Press firmly together and set aside to dry.

Step 7:

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

Kids activites, calendar, extra curricular

Finally write the days of the week with Glitter Glue at the top and there you go, time well spent for organizing your kids’ extra curricular activities.

Use a piece of Bostik Prestik to put the eraser marker on the wall next to the activity board for the blank labels used for the non-repetitive activities. Have fun!


This post is sponsored by Bostik smart adhesives.

Bostik, glue, crazy clay, back to school

Don’t kill spiders!

Don’t kill spiders!
Don’t kill spiders!

My love for spiders started one day when I went bug hunting with my kids. In one day we found two baboon spiders and a very small gecko by just looking… Amazing how nature comes alive when you actually look.

It was the most amazing thing to inspect the small male and female baboon spiders (Harpactira sp. ‘Robertson’) and since my father did the same for me as a child, of course I just had to catch the third one we saw in the house to look at it closely and release back into the garden. It made me think of how my grandma used to kill every spider in sight with Doom…

Why do people kill spiders? They are a valuable part of the eco system and they are quite effective in eradicating insects. We’ll I’m sure most people mainly kill them because they are afraid that they can be dangerous and possibly deadly.

Well I found this exert from How stuff works – Home & Garden

“Most spiders don’t harm humans. In fact, they help us.

Dr. Linda S. Rayor, Assistant Professor of Entomology, Cornell University

Spiders are beneficial inhabitants of any garden, ecosystem, or home because of their important contributions to biological control of pest insects. Spiders are considered to be the most important terrestrial predators, eating tons of pest insects or other small arthropods every year. Spiders are generalist predators that are willing to eat almost any insect they can catch. They are abundant and found in most habitats. They only need to be left alone!

Spiders are voracious hunters and will reduce the amount of pests in your garden. However, spiders will also go after bees and other favorable insects. Spiders aren’t aggressive like mantises, so importing the arachnids to your garden isn’t going to quash an aphid outbreak. However, their very presence will reduce garden pests. (And no chemicals!)

Like the good Doc says, all you have to do is leave them alone.”

 

The Spider Club of Southern Africa has a great free printable booklet that will enlighten you on how many actual deadly spiders we have in South Africa. Download the booklet HERE  and next time you see a scary looking creature…. know that he’s most probably harmless and more afraid of you than you are of him.

Just leave him alone and you should be fine and if you absolutely have to, rather transfer him to the garden by catch and release with a glass and a piece of cardboard, You’ll come to notice its actually not that scary!

Homeschooling Series #4: The Glasses we Wear

Homeschooling Series #4: The Glasses we Wear
Homeschooling Series #4: The Glasses we Wear

Our guest for this week needs no introduction for South Africans… Not only is she a stay-at-home mom, teacher, speaker and marriage counselor but she is also a writer of stunning children’s books and a stunning book called “Book of romance” Now don’t freak out when you click on that link, its not porn!!! Its actually an awesome Afrikaans blog on Read the rest of this entry

Homeschooling #3: The good, the bad and the Unexplained

Homeschooling #3: The good, the bad and the Unexplained
Homeschooling #3: The good, the bad and the Unexplained

This is the third post in the Homeschooling series called The good, the bad and the Unexplained. Once again, these posts are not aimed at convincing anyone to do anything, it’s aimed at parents, asking themselves these questions, who are interested to know the opinions of other homeschooling moms on the given subject. Our guest for this Read the rest of this entry

Homeschooling #2: So what about socialization?

Homeschooling #2: So what about socialization?
Homeschooling #2: So what about socialization?

This is our second post in the series Homeschooling. These posts are not aimed at convincing anyone to do anything, it’s aimed at parents, asking themselves these questions, who are interested to know the opinions of other homeschooling moms on the given subject. Today we look at the most dreaded question to homeschoolers ever… “So Read the rest of this entry

Homeschooling #1: Should, or shouldn’t I homeschool?

Homeschooling #1: Should, or shouldn’t I homeschool?
Homeschooling #1: Should, or shouldn’t I homeschool?

This is the first post of a series of guest posts on homeschooling. The series is not intended to get you to homeschool. Its merely a series of posts that give you information about homeschooling that may help you in your decision to homeschool or not. I personally don’t know what I will be doing with my twins one day. The fact that I live far from schools make Read the rest of this entry