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Little Bo Peep and her Lost Sheep

April 15, 2015 by Emma Edwards Leave a Comment

It is Rhyme Time again and another opportunity to work with Teach Me Mommy, Best Toys 4 Toddlers, Crafty Kids At Home and Danya Banya. We are now also joined by Messy Little Monster. This fortnights nursery rhyme is Little Bo Peep.

 

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep

and doesn’t know where to find them.

Leave them alone and they’ll come home

Wagging their tails behind them. 

 

At Adventures of Adam we are slighly obsessed with sheep. To date we have created sheep window art, sheared a sheep, herded sheep, counted sheep, made sheep Christmas decorations and sheep cakes and created light up sheep. Told you we were slightly obsessed! Today’s activity gave us the opportunity to help look for Little Bo Peep’s lost sheep.

We took our Blue Tuff Spot and Tuff Spot Stand outside and I stuck sheep stickers to the Tuff spot. On a recent trip to a farm Adam loved identifying the numbers on the sheep. I decided to number Adam’s sheep with a permanent marker pen to aid his number recognition.

Adventures of Adam Numbered sheep stickers

I wanted a way that Adam could search for Little Bo Peep’s sheep. We love to use shaving foam but it is white and Little Bo Peep lost her sheep on the hills rather than fog. However, I could add colour the shaving foam to make it look like green grass.

Adventures of Adam Coloured shaving foam

I sprayed shaving foam into a zip-loc bag and added some supermarket bought green food colouring. I closed the zip-loc bg and squashed the contents around to mix the two ingredients together. However, I remembered why I stopped using supermarket bought food colouring and changed to Wilton Icing Colours. Instead of green shaving foam I ended up with a murky yellow colour. I squirted shaving foam into two more zip-loc bags and this time added green paint.

Adventures of Adam Green shaving foam hills

To transfer the shaving foam from the zip-loc bag I simply cut one corner and squirted the foam out like an icing bag. I ensured the sheep were hidden and attempted to make a few hills. I placed an assortment of different sized paintbrushes on the grass for Adam to choose.

Adventures of Adam Finding Little Bo Peeps Lost Sheep

After waiting patiently for me to set up the activity Adam couldn’t wait to start finding Little Bo Peep’s lost sheep. Throughout the activity we sang the nursery rhyme. It took  little while for Adam to discover the first lost sheep. He had been using a thin paint brush but it wasn’t thick enough to move the shaving foam away from the sheep.

Adventures of Adam Little Bo Peeps Lost Sheep

Once Adam swapped to a bigger brush he found the sheep easily and loved shouting out the number on the sheep. Once he had found all the sheep he said “Bo Peep happy.”

Adventures of Adam Finding sheep in shaving foam

The fun didn’t stop there though as Adam enjoyed “painting the Tuff Spot” with the shaving foam. Cleaning away the activity was fun too. We moved the Tuff Spot closer to Adam’s Mud Kitchen and poured water into the tough spot. Adam spent ages cleaning the Tuff Spot before we tipped the water into his mud kitchen where he then explored the mud – lots of sensory fun!

Adventures of Adam Cleaning the Tuff Spot

 

Equipment:

* Tuff Spot

* Cosy Direct Tuff Spot Stand – you can read our review here

* Sheep stickers

* Marker pen

* Shaving Foam – we used two cans of supermarket economy Shaving Foam

* Green food colouring or green paint

* Variety of paintbrushes

 

Adventures of Adam Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep

 

Adventures of Adam Little Bo Peep Rhyme Time

Check out the other Little Bo Peep inspired activities from:

Make Toilet Roll Little Bo Peep Lambs // Danya Banya

Little Bo Peep Colour Match // Best Toys 4 Toddlers

Seek and Stick the Tail on the Sheep // Crafty Kids At Home

Yarn Sheep Craft // Teach Me Mommy

Little Bo Peep Name Hunt // Messy Little Monster

 

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Counting Sheep Busy Bag

 

Filed Under: Independent Play Activity, Learning Activities, Play Activities, Some time required Tagged With: Animal themed play, Cosy Direct Resources, Fine Motor Activities, Independent Play Activities, Messy activity, Nursery Rhyme activity, Outdoor Play Activities, Painting Activities, Rhyme Time, Sensory Play Activities, Shaving Foam, Toddler play, Tuff Spot/ Builders Tray, Zip-loc plastic bag

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During a difficult pregnancy suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) Emma vowed to make every day an adventure once she had recovered. Adventures of Adam is the outcome of completing a 100 day play challenge with Adam as part of that promise. Emma has a section dedicated to HG friendly play activities so that Mums can still be part of their children’s play whilst they are ill.

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