We've made it, the last after school club of the year!
As you can imagine, all groups have been busy with lots of Christmas crafts and everyone is very excited. 
Little group have been making 3D Christmas trees using paper plates folded into a cone shape and painted and decorated.  They looked fantastic.  They have also made some Reindeer heads using egg cartons! 
In the hall, there have been lots of dancing to Christmas music and also some great Christmas Treasure Island on the whiteboard. 

Middle Group have been dancing along with Little group in the hall with all the Christmas music, and they have also been decorating a large scale tree with baubles they have made and stuck on.  Middle group also made a huge mess in the end room when they made snowflakes out of paper.  The end products were beautiful, and the amount of tiny pieces of paper on the floor at the end of session was like a snow drift. 
Using brightly coloured card, middle group made some cards to give to friends or family, and have also been playing lots of physical games in the hall like benchball, capture the flag and dodgeball. 

Big group have been making some christmas cards also and had free reign of the glitter....
They also have had a festive edition of Treasure Island with some bonus sweets as well as prizes.  In the hall, there were some very competative games of ladders and stageball and also some favourite parachute games as well.  
Mafia was played on one of our busiest days, it was a long game, with the mafia winning against the villagers and there was a lot of cleaver acting during the game.  

So, that bring us to the end of after school club.  There will be one more day of playscheme this year on the 23rd, but then we are closed until the 2nd of January. 

All that is left to say is Merry Christmas, and I hope you all have a fantastic time off with your loved ones.  
​From all of us at Kids' Club. 

Little Group has been Christmas mad this last week.  They have been making Christmas Cards using various craft materials and card, making Santa decorations to hang on the tree, paper chains that have been wrapped around the tree in the foyer, designed a new christmas jumper, for which there was one lucky winner, and also made some really delicious brownies that were supposed to be cut into tree shapes, but we just ate them in squares. 
There were also lots of Christmas Themed games to play as well, including four corners, with Elf, Tree, Holly and Santa as the areas, and a Christmas Treasure Island on the whiteboard. 

Middle Group Has been keeping the christmas theme down until the final week so as not to overwhelm the children.  They have been doing lots of hall games, like Sharky Sharky, tig and some dancing and bowling.
They have also made Brownies (when do they not bake?) and they were really good. 
The children have been begging to have facepaint tattoos for a while, and they have got what they asked for.  There were some interesting designs, with one child having an octopus on her cheek.

​Big Group have been really busy with lots of craft and games.  They have all had a try at some pixel art, focusing on repeating patterns for wrapping paper, and some chrismas pictures, lots of them decided to try reindeers and santa. 
There was also some bingo in the kitchen, which, if you happened to pass thorugh, you'll have noticed it was a very noisy bingo, but they all had a great time, Ryan managed to somehow turn it into a competetive sport. 
In the hall, the children have played some favourites, like dodgeball, wollop the cone and 1 on 1 football.  
Back in big group room, some of the children have had a go at making some christmas cards or decorations, with free reign of the craft area. 

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Had no time for updates last week so here is a double dose!

The children in Little group have been planning and writing up their own sessions, and they have chosen to make rainbows!  They used paint to make them and then mounted them on the window in the End Room. 
They have also been into junk modeling, making lots of different objects, and some hve requested to make robots. 

There have been lots of physical activities going on with football in the hall, music games, four corners and time bomb.  There have also been lots of board games and card games played in a group, like Uno which is ver popular, and also colouring in and playing theor own snakes and ladders game.  

On the white board, the children have been playing some Christmas Themed Treasure Island and in the kitchen, making Tree shaped bisuits, and chocolate cakes. 

Gearing up for Christmas, the children have helped decorate the end room and the tree in the foyer and will be continuiing to make decorations throughout the comming weeks. 

Middle Group have also been realling into christmas making snowball pompoms, christmas cards, and started making their own advent callendar.  They have also been doing some themed painting and colouring competitions, along with some more general sessions, like facepaint tattoos, sharkey sharkey in the hall and going to the park. Middle group wouldn't be the same without some baking, and they made some snowmen shaped shortbread biscuits with chocolate drop buttons.  Yummy. 

Big Group have been doing lots of team games, with Stool Ball, Ladders, Capture the bib, and football.  They have also played dodgeball and parachute games.  So loads of physical stuff!

They have also played other games they love like Mr and Mrs, Higher or Liar,  Who am I? and Mafia.  

They also did some painting, where there were some genuinely beautiful pieces of art. 

So that's the end of a bust two weeks.  Countdown to Christmas now!