Wellbeing Wednesday Week 9

Welcome to Wellbeing Wednesday!

Please choose any of the activities on this page or on the Wellbeing page to complete (press the button below).

Most of all HAVE FUN!

Story

Listen to the story 'Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug' by Jonathan Stutzman.

In this story Tiny tries very hard to learn how to hug so that he can cheer up his friend.

After listening, give someone in your family a hug, just like Tiny.

Recipe- Cranberry and Chocolate Cookies

Adult help needed.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup plain flour

  • 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon

  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

  • 1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

  • 110g butter

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar

  • 1/2 cup white sugar

  • 1 egg

  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • 3 1/2 cups oats

  • 1 cup dried cranberries

  • 125g dark chocolate, chopped

Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 180c. Line 2 baking trays with greaseproof paper.

  2. In a medium bowl combine flour, cinnamon, baking powder, bicarb soda and salt.

  3. In an electric mixer, beat the butter, brown and white sugar together until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth. With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the flour mixture.

  4. Add oats, cranberries and chocolate chunks and mix until a stiff dough forms.

  5. Roll the dough into balls and arrange evenly spaced on the baking tray. Press slightly to flatten.

  6. Bake for 15 minutes until golden on the edges. Allow the cookies to cool on the tray before serving.

Craft- Fingerprint pictures


Materials

  • Paper

  • Paint or an ink pad

  • A pencil


Steps

  1. Press your finger into an ink pad or paint and make pictures with your fingerprints on the paper.

  2. Add to your artwork finer details with the pencil (if you used paint, you will need to wait for it to dry). You might like to draw with the pencil first then add the fingerprints.


See examples below for some ideas...

Watch this video for a demonstration...

Science Experiment- Making Salt Crystals

Adult help needed.

Materials

  • Three cups of table salt.

  • 1L of water

  • Pencil

  • Paperclip or nail

  • A piece of string, cut to size.

  • One strong plastic or Pyrex jar.

Steps

  1. Boil the water with the help of an adult.

  2. Pour the water into the plastic jar. Do not use glass as it may break.

  3. Add the salt one tablespoon at a time. Allow the salt to dissolve before you add more tablespoons.

  4. Continue adding salt until you cannot dissolve anymore and it collects at the bottom of the jar.

  5. Tie one end of the string around the pencil and the other end around the paperclip or nail.

  6. Dangle the string into the saturated salt solution, so that the paperclip doesn’t touch the bottom of the jar or its sides.

  7. Allow the jar to sit undisturbed for one week. Salt crystals should form at the top of the string.

Mindfulness Colouring

Print out one of these pictures and colour it in.

Dog.pdf
Monster Truck.pdf
Fish.pdf
Fairy.pdf
Thank you for being amazing!.pdf
Unicorn.pdf

Activities

Print out the activity you want to do. There is an eye spy activity, word search, dot to dot, maze or make a word game.

I Spy.pdf
Checklist.pdf
High Frequency Word Search.pdf
Kindness Word Search.pdf
Stegosaurus Dot to Dot.pdf
Unicorn Dot to Dot.pdf
Make Words.pdf
Maze.pdf

Art, Music, Japanese and P.E. Videos

There are plenty of fun videos to keep you moving, singing and to inspire your creativity. Check out the Fun Friday page under the Specialists Activities tab on the Learning Hub or click on the link below.

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