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ICE CUBE 🧊 COLORING 🎨

In case you were as skeptical as @moorethanhappy and I that this would actually work, here’s proof. 😋 Just drop a dab of food coloring in an ice 🧊 tray overnight and when you wake up in the morning ☀️, you’ll have a water color 🎨 sensory experience ready to go. We used the letter C worksheet 📝 provided by @experiencecurriculum , but really you could have used anything, including blank paper, white coffee…

DIY NAME RECOGNITION PUZZLES 🧩

Before anyone can read and write, there are a whole lot of skills that need to be front loaded. Letter and name recognition are just 2 of them, and this simple DIY activity takes no time to make while still being really valuable. MATERIALS:• Markers• Paper• Ruler• Scissors ✂️ H chose to place the letters under his name while matching them, while B placed hers on top. This is a great…

A TODDLER EXPERIMENT IN UNSTRUCTURED CUTTING WITH DIFFERENT KINDS OF SCISSORS ✂️

At the end of every 2 weeks, we have a “review” day that allows me to use up whatever activities I may not have gotten around to from our curriculum. These days also allow me more wiggle room to supplement with my own stuff, and tend to be my favorite because of the creative freedom they allow me. Today I decided the kids don’t get enough opportunities to cut…

PAPER PLATE RAINBOWS 🌈 OF GRATITUDE

Lets be honest. I spend more time that I care to admit on Pinterest and other IG pages looking for ideas to do with the kids. The benefits? I take the best of what I find and adapt it to make it my own. This is an example of multiple @pinterest activities blended together. I cut multiple strips of colored paper and a single paper plate in half. I gave…

IT LOOKED LIKE SPILT MILK 🥛 – ART EDITION 🎨

While learning about clouds, we read It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw and then did this “cloudy art” activity from the curriculum. Mixing white paint with water was a FANTASTIC combination so that the kids could suck it up with a pipette and drop it onto the thick blue paper to make a beautiful contrast. ☁️ We also had one cup filled with just white paint and another…

DOT MARKERS, NAMES, AND BEARS 🐻, OH MY!

As a self-proclaimed lover or bright colors, 🌈 I think these are BEAUTIFUL! 🤩 They’re also functional, educational, and reusable, so there is absolutely no reason not to do this activity. First, write your child’s name in dot markers and see if they can identify their name as well as identify or name the letters in it. They’ll enjoy matching colored bears to the corresponding colored letters in…