Teaching Idea: Black Tea Surrogate – exercise in self sufficiency

Deer ears is a classic tool in nature awareness raising to extend your sense of hearing. Just put your hands behind your ears and form a bowl with each hand. You will be surprised on how much more you can perceive that way. We thought of a variation to be done with groups (of children…

I must admit, I´m fed up with pandemic stipulations. Period. At home we are less affected and can work our way around them. But at work in an urban kindergarten with a rather blank outdoor area and without the opportunity to bring the children to places with more nature … my, it´s a real challenge!…

This is the story of my first self-made spoon – or actually spork. It took me 2 days to finish it and I felt quite proud. Sure, it was a little crooked, but I had put some effort in it and let the texture of the wood be my guide. I used this spoon to…

Let the children team up as bird parents or eggs/chicks. Help the “bird parents” build a makeshift nest from twigs, grass, or pillows, whatever you have available. Then place the “eggs” into the nest, have the children kneel there and make themselves very small. Instruct the bird parents to warm the eggs with their wings…

Usually we get very little snow in my region during the winter. So when we found ourselves in a snow-covered world last week, the children in my kindergarten group were really  excited and we decided to go for a walk to a park in our neighbourhood. Under normal conditions this park is  quite dull but snow has…