Imagination walk-Sculptures By The Sea.

You can find  fabulous places to grow kids imagination when you get out and about.

Sculptures by the Sea,now on at Bondi, Sydney, has  some massive  imagination prompters.

How about clambering into an enormous frying pan?

At Tamarama Beach, Sydney they can climb in now!

Further along the walk is a tractor that looks like it could fly…

….and a car that must have been using that skateboard ramp at night- when no- ones around?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the most fantastical sculptures is a throne, made out of a mish-mash of plastic bits and pieces- toothbrushes, kids toys, lego pieces, plastic cutlery and more. Put the crown (made out of a plastic drainer) on your head and you’re ready to be proclaimed King or Queen.( Adults and kids all wanted to sit down straight away.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After family walks, try using some stories and rhymes to match your experiences.

Or take some books along with you to sit down and read beside the sculptures. (see our suggestions below)

The Giant Frypan.

• Sing 5 fat sausages. Here’s a rhyme and video.

Or try: Five Crispy Pancakes

Five crispy pancakes in a frying pan,

Flip them and toss them and catch them if you can.

Along came (choose a child),

For a pancake one day,

Sprinkled it with sugar and took it away.

Four crispy pancakes in a frying pan…

• Make pikelets in a frypan.Read the recipe together – this one has photo prompts to help.

http://justamumnz.com/2014/02/22/weekend-brunch-pikelets-recipe/

• Share a book with a frypan in it :

Toucan Can by Juliette MacIver and Sarah Davis, Gecko Press. This book is tremendous fun, with gorgeous animal characters.

“Toucan Dances           Toucan Sings           Toucan bangs a frying pan.   Can YOU do    what Toucan can?”

 

 

Find  a review here:        http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2014/02/review-toucan-can.html

If you know of any other books with frypans in, just let me know- a bit tricky to find!

 

 

 

 

 

The Throne

Books from our 100 Stories Before School booklist (on the Families or Educators website tabs)

• The Fancy Nancy series by Jane O Connor and Robyn Preiss Glasser, Harper Collins.( Nancy loves dressing up ‘fancy’)
• The Foggy Foggy Forest by Nick Sharratt. Walker Books.( Has princesses wearing crowns)
• Fairytales about Kings and Queens- try Snow White,( if your children are ready for that.)

 

The tractor- or flying machine?.

Books from our 100 Stories Before School booklist (on the Families or Educators website tabs)

• Peggy by Anna Walker, Scholastic.    Peggy, the resourceful hen, is blown away from her home and ends up lost in the city . Questions to ask-“Where might the tractor fly you away to?”” What would you do then?”” What other machines might fly?”
• My Granny Went To Market by Stella Blackstone and Christopher Corr, Barefoot Books UK  .Granny has a magic carpet that flies her to different countries.

The skateboard van

Books from our 100 Stories Before School booklist (on the Families or Educators website tabs)

Most vehicles I can think of ,with this much character, are all in movies! ( “Herbie”,the love bug, the cars from “Cars” and the car in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”)

Books from our 100 Stories Before School booklist (on the website)

• Duck in the Truck ( series) by Jez Alborough,Harper Collins.“This is the tale of a duck in a truck-a truck that got stuck in some yucky brown muck” Fun as always from Jez Alborough. Question to ask-“What other animals could we put in our skateboard van?”
• Rattletrap Car by Phyllis Root and Jill Barton.Walker Books. On their way  to the beach Dad has to fix the car with the kids toys and food they have brought for the day.”Lumpety bumpety clinkety clanky bing bang pop!” Question to ask-“How did they fix the skateboard van to look like that?”
• The Boy On The Bus by Penny Dale, Walker Books.The boy driving the bus picks up all sorts of animals along the way-jump on board and sing along!
  

  Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough,Harper Collins

Finally-if you would like to see all of the sculptures at the Bondi, look under the images tab on the website.

http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/Home.aspx

Any other ideas for stories , songs and rhymes very welcome.

Do enjoy getting out and about together.