With this beautiful change of weather and learning about seasons, collecting sticks and leaves 🍃 outdoors ☀️ was an absolute pleasure. I wasn’t quite sure how this would turn out, but H even asked to create more than one leaf creature, selecting a butterfly 🦋 from the example. He worked so hard to come up with his creation, including asking for markers and additional construction paper. There may have been examples pictured…
It took me a minute to form the pipe cleaner people, which B lovingly named “the dancing children,” but it was a neat idea borrowed from @keep.kids.busy. Aside from matching, it worked on language and visual-spatial skills, much like a puzzle would. Turn, flip, slide, and lay your pipe cleaner people flat. To adapt this for younger children, use colored markers instead of black marker…
Although there is a time and a place for paper and pencil activities, I implore you to open yourself up to other options. Kids can practice their writing skills using their fingers in sand, shaving cream, and (as pictured here) hair gel. Thinking outside the box allows your children to view academic activities as fun. More importantly, they simply see an opportunity to play. As both a parent and a…
When learning about wind, it couldn’t be more simple than taping construction paper together in the shape of cylinders and having the kids make the strongest structures possible before attempting to blow them down. Naturally, the kids started to try to reinforce their structures by placing cylinders inside cylinders. They also made great Wonder Woman bracelets for pretend play. Give a child something simple, and watch it take on…
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…
Yesterday we started our weather unit with talking and learning about the sun. These 3-year-olds can now tell you that when it’s daytime ☀️ on one side of the Earth 🌎, it’s nighttime 🌙 on the other side. It’s never too early to teach science to small children. They may not grasp everything, and you may need to simplify it, but they are far more capable than most…
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