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1 WHEN THE WIND BLOWS CHILD-INITIATED

CHILD-INITIATED

Experience the excitement of windy weather.

Resources

Lengths of ribbon and crepe paper streamers; commercially produced windmills, kites and windsocks; a range of materials and tools in the workshop area, for example, tissue paper, card, crepe paper, ribbon, string, wool, art straws, lollipop sticks, scissors and masking tape.

Play suggestions

* Encourage the children to run in the wind and feel it blowing on their faces and through their hair.

* Encourage them to 'fly' the ribbons and streamers as they run around.

* Ask them to choose a 'ribbon tree' and help them tie the streamers to one of its branches (or tie the ribbons to a bracket on the corner of a building). Encourage them to watch as the ribbons blow in the wind and to feel them blowing on to their faces.

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