A new Craft kit (only available as a downloadable at the moment) has been added to the store..
Moondust Fairies & The Wishing Star is aimed at being able to build on exisiting vocabulary skills and to encourage exploration of collaging materials.
As the children are focused on the craft activities you can chat about 'wishes' ~ what a 'wish' could mean, whether it matters if a wish comes true or not and how they can work towards making a wish come true !!
Write what they say inside their wish card & pin it up on your display board !!
Let the children set realistic & imaginative wishes as you talk about attainability.
Preschool, Nursery and Home Fairies Theme..
To help fit this craft kit into your planning these are some more ideas to incorporate it into a theme !!
ELGS ~ 2008 Early Learning Areas
Click Titles for summaries of ELGS ~ Ealry Learning Goals
PSED
Personal Social & Emotional Development
Sensory & explorative ~ Natural aromatic plants
Have a table activity that encourages the children to look, touch, feel, smell & experience plants !
Some easy to find examples
(check for skin allergies/reactions before/after & during the activity)
Lavendar
Rosemary
Lemongrass
& at the other end ....
Chives
Thyme
Mint
Basil
Signing ~ Finding out about other ways of communicating with each other.
little star is a great singalong rhyme that you can also use with sign language to communication the words .
Little Star ~ By Annie Kruber and published by Childs-Play
ISBN-10: 1904550029
This book should be widely available at your Local Library .. give them a ring & book it 
Alternatively we have a member on here who I'm sure would be glad to help anyone out with questions or who'd like to purchase the book.
CLL
Communication, language and Literacy
Laura's Star ~ Klaus Baumgart and Illustrated by Judy Waite
There is a whole series of these books and they are all great !!
MD ~ PSRN
Math matical Development - Problem Solving, Reasoning & Numeracy
Counting stars ~ Hide some laminated stars in your sand tray and leave some numberlines near by.. can the children count off the stars as they find them and match them to the numberlines?
KNUW
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Fairies !
What do the children know of fairies? Have they older brothers & sisters (or older maybe ) who've had a visit from the tooth fairy?
What can they tell you about it ?
PD
Physical Development
Hopscotch fairies ! ~ if you haven't got a hopscotch layout, play ~ hop skip & jump games.
Fairy Parachutes !! ~ use laminated fairies tied to the 4 corners of a cut open carrier bag - launch & catch !!
CD
Creative Development
Role Play
Decorate a table with a 'Fairy woodland feel'
Small world role play figures or laminated clipart fairy people to role play with ~ Plastic/Artificial & real flower blooms ~ Pretty Pebbles & stones.
Hang delicate (well, not too delicate ) wind chimes & mobiles over the table, tie up ribbon streamers to give a 'grotto look !
For sensory - add Child friendly glitter & snow globe domes.
Cookery
Make star shaped biscuits & cookies ~
Use the same measuring 'Cup' throughout your cooking so that quantities stay associated 
!
BASIC Recipes to use ..
Vegetarian
1/2 cup softened butter.
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla essence
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup. Plain flour
2 1/3 cups Oatmeal
· Mix the sugar & butter together
· Add the egg
· Mix in all the other ingredients.
· Form a dough
· Sprinkle flour over a surface and 'pat flat.
· Use a star shaped cutter to make your cookies.
· Sprinkle some chocolate chips on the surface
· OR
· Mix up some yellow icing to decorate the biscuits on cooled.
· Bake - 350f ~ 180c ~ Gas 3 .. for 10 mins
Gluten Free
Nice selection on the Celiac.com website ~ this is good one (& somewhat fitting the theme 
lol ) Troll House Cookies
Vegan
This is fantastic recipe .. if you get chance to play with quantities & ingredients you could have a brilliant all rounder recipe
Vegan Banana and Oatmeal Biscuits
Music & Rhyme
Little Star from U5s
If anyone knows of an easy online game for please post ( 
Oo especially if it's designed for IWB use !!)
Star Light, Star Bright
Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
Arts & Crafts
Moondust Fairies shameless plug sorry !!
I'm hoping that the illustrated images in the craft kit will be used as accompanying pictures to the children's own independent art work.
They can help invite interest from visitors, parents or anyone who happens to be passing by, as they'll give a clear indication of the work you and the children have been doing together ... and fingers crossed will open opportunities for futher communication with other adults
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Included in the craft kit is also a selection of 'text boxed questions these will add an interactive element to anyone reading the display.
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More Websites ..
www.flowerfairies.com
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