Tot activities and germ game.

DD2 has been working on pouring (water)

whisking

fine motor control - using a game the older girls have

and with mosaics

but her favourite by far has been our updated handwashing station. DD8 and DD6 were kind enough to demonstrate the importance of soap when washing hands.(I read about the glitter from a yahoo discussion group and it sounded too much fun to ignore)

First they used glitter glue to demonstrate that germs spread from you hands when you sneeze or cough

if you then touch something else the germs stick to that as well

so you need to wash your hands - but water is not enough, if you just wash with water the germs are still there and if you then dry your hands you leave germs on the towel

but if you wash with soap then water your hands become clean

They also used normal glitter to prove the 'catch it, bin it , kill it' - they placed glitter in the palm of their hands and fake sneezed to blow it around the room to prove the importance of catching it in a tissue to drop in the bin. They seemed quiet shocked at how far the glitter travelled.

I now have a beautiful sparkly school room to clean -yay : )