We all enjoyed dressing up as what we wanted to be when we grow up and shared the story: “When I grow up I’d like to be”, this is a delightful rhyming picture book about jobs and talents, the illustrations are delightful and it provoked lots of talk about careers, jobs and our futures. During the day we had lots of role play opportunities:
– Hodnet artists studio (where children created artwork for our walls and new tattoo sleeve designs)
-Hodnet cafe in our home corner (although I never did get the cup of tea I ordered)
– Hodnet beauticians
-Hodnet mini school (lots of teachers and just a few pupils, they enjoyed demonstrating lots of phonics)
– Hodnet veterinary surgery (although the patients were wild zoo animals)
– Hodnet science lab (we investigated changing colours of potions, this kept us busy all afternoon)
– Hodnet architects office (we then built models of our buildings from Lego)
-Hodnet authors office (lots of great stories were written)
– Hodnet clothes design studio (the designers modelled their creations on the catwalk at the end of the day)
We also designed our own firework displays with a repeating pattern.