{"id":950,"date":"2015-01-29T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/29\/word-of-week-water-play-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:40","slug":"word-of-week-water-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/word-of-week-water-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Week – Water-play"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWe\u2019re at the very end of January now, so the kids have been
\nback to school for nearly a full month. Already we are starting to crave the
\nschool mid-term break, coming up in two weeks time.  <\/span>Freddie especially is coming home exhausted
\nfrom all the learning he is now doing in Junior Infants.  <\/span>He has just started to read his first little
\nbooks now which is brilliant and he is really enjoying reading, but he is
\nfinding all of the intense concentration needed very tiring come late afternoon.
\nTherefore I have been trying to plan lots of calming after school activities to
\nhelp get us all though to bedtime in one piece!<\/div>\n
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\nI\u2019ve been experimenting with different activities such as
\nadding lavender oil to some home-made moon sand<\/a>. This smelt lovely and they had
\na lovely few sessions playing with their diggers in the sand. <\/div>\n
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\nBut the best activity I have found to help calm them
\nall down has been to play with water. Freddie especially has been finding it
\nvery soothing to have his hands messing around in water. (Just think how nice
\nyou feel after a long soak in the bath!) It\u2019s a very versatile activity as
\nwell. We\u2019ve added in funnels, jugs, whisks and giant pip-pets to a bowl of warm
\nsoapy water. Bella has had fun with her play cups and waterbeads making me lots of
\ncups of tea! And they all enjoyed having a go at our Fishing in waterbeads activity<\/a>.  <\/span>The best fun though was
\nblowing bubbles in water with straws; this was great at working out those late
\nafternoon frustrations.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are your favourite afternoon calm down activities? <\/span><\/p>\n

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