Last Friday we had an adventure day out with our friends from Giggles Childminding. We caught the train to Manchester, the children were all very excited!
Look, a train is coming!
We sat with our friends on the train.
We had our picnic lunch in Manchester Art Gallery waiting for our session to begin!
The session this time was all about noise. We listened to lots of different noises, we made lots of different noises, some were quiet but most of them were loud. There were lots of activities and things that the children could interact with and discover....
We listened through tubes which intensified the sounds.
We made noises into a microphone which were recorded and played back over and over again.
We placed cups onto vinyl records on a turntable, which made the noise sound funny.
We stirred and shook different things in containers which all made different noises.
We pressed different buttons and different noises came out of the speakers.
We popped bubble-wrap.
And the most fun of all was had by playing with lots of foil type strips that were in a huge pile on the floor. The children buried themselves and each other in there, they threw it around, the crawled through it and jumped on it, and were very giddy (hence all of my photos are blurred as the children would not keep still!)
We took it in turns crawling inside a massive tube and the children on the outside then banged on the tube like a giant drum - it was very noisy inside!
We finished at the art gallery and walked towards the train station, on the way we saw the water feature in Piccadilly Gardens - the children pleaded with me to allow them to play in it. After a stern talking to about how they must not get wet, the children went off to play.
Somehow the children didn't get too wet - they had a magnificent time though, and it was very funny to watch them having so much fun!
We saw a massive statue of the Duke of Wellington which the children explored.
And at the end of a very exciting and tiring day out it was time to get the train back home.
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