Le corps week 2 - X-ray

A while back I came across a fun looking craft on Pinterest where you use cotton buds to look like bones in an x-ray. This seemed like a great craft for our continued theme of le corps and simple enough for even our littlest toddlers to get involved in.

To make your own you will need:

Craft paper (preferably black, I couldn't find my stash of black so we had to improvise!)

A pencil or white chalk

Cotton buds

Scissors

Glue

Simply draw around your child's arm and hand on the paper and then let them go nuts with the glue.

Stick cotton buds on to resemble bones

Here are our fabulous x-rays:

Happy singing and crafting! :0)

Le corps week 1 - M. Patate

I can't believe how far behind I am getting with my posts again!! Need to organise myself and set a specific time each week for updating I think!

So, the Friday before last saw the first week of our new format.  As I said in my last post the first topic is le corps (the body) and our songs each week include such favourites as"tête, épaules, genoux, pieds", "ça bouge", "savez vous planter les choux?"

Our craft for this first "le corps" session was to make our very own interactive fuzzy felt M. Patate (mr. potato head).  

To make your own you will need:

Card

Felt in a variety of colours

Scissors

First choose a colour for your potato's body and cut a potato body shape out.  Glue this on to your card in the centre.

Next, use the other felt colours to make mr potato head's other body parts, you will need at least one set of ears, eyes, nose, mouth, feet/shoes and arms. Of course the more options you make the more fun for your little one and the more language learning opportunities e.g as well as introducing le nez (nose) you can introduce the idea of bigger and smaller (plus gros/plus petit) etc.  You can also make hats, bags, etc for your mr (or mrs) potato head to be decorated with.

The great thing about felt is that it sticks to itself easily (if it doesn't want to comply gently rub the back of the pieces with a synthetic scourer and that should help). Some of our little ones made foam parts for their potato heads - no problem, we just added some sticky backed Velcro to make them stick :0)

So, here are our fabulous potato people:

Happy singing and crafting! :0)

Au revoir - at least it's not goodbye!

It was a somewhat emotional toddler French last Friday as we said "Au revoir" to 7 of our big boys and girls who have started school this week!! :0( But as the title says at least it is not goodbye :0). I am sure they will come back to visit us in the school holidays and on INSET days.

In honour of the occasion, I altered our usual format. There were no song sheets this week, instead our leavers all chose their favourite song to sing.  We had a lovely mix of firm favourites that we sing most weeks and some that we haven't sung for ages, which was lovely. We also sang 2 rousing renditions of "joyeuse anniversaire" as we had two little birthday people to celebrate with.

As it was a bit of a leavers' party, our craft this week was decorating cupcake which the children all enjoyed - although perhaps not as much as eating them!

Our leavers then all received a little gift along with their sticker at the end of the session.

Here are their yummy, scrummy cupcakes:

This Friday will see the start of a new format for Toddler French.  We are going to become topic based rather than having a jumble of songs each week.  Our first topic will be "le corps" mainly because we haven't sung most of those songs for a while, and will be focusing on this topic for 6 weeks until half term.  We will sing the same songs each week and the craft will be related to the topic as a whole and not necessarily any one song in particular.

Keep your fingers crossed it goes well on Friday and I will let you know in the next blog post how successful it is :0)

Happy singing and crafting! :0)