1. Never underestimate the power of the recycling bin.
2. Let the child lead their own learning and the rest will come.
3. Allow for innovation.
4. Tie it to a book!
5. Sometimes something new comes out of a well-laid plan. Go with it. It might be just what his/her brain was looking for!
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| I decided to extend a library story hour theme on apples with apple stamping. |
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| Monster play dough! Pipe cleaners and googly eyes. Just add imagination! |
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| Still life painting our black eyed susan flowers using real petals. |
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| Our toilet paper tube collage owls. |
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| Riley loved the "sticky blocks" with contact paper on an easel. |
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| Indoor golf/croquet |
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| Quin extended it to include a felt "green", a real hole, and a flag made from a pizza box. |
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| Riley's tape obsession unleased on recycleables! |
Building bridges. Quin became fascinated with bridges after reading a picture book describing all the types of bridges. So we tried a bridge challenge. We could only use 3 pieces of paper, 5 paper clips, and a pair of scissors. |
| A flat piece of paper doesn't hold very many pennies! |
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| Quin first tried making the flat piece of paper stronger by putting paper clips around the perimeter. |
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| Quin looking at a bridge. |
How many pennies can a bridge with a triangle structure hold? A lot more!
Nature collagesWe took a walk outside and gathered many
items we've been finding on the ground. We sorted them, and then used our treasures to create art! Practicing squeezing with a glue bottle was a hidden small motor objective I had. I also wanted the kids to take notice of the different textures, shapes, and smells of the found objects.
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| nature collages |
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| Mask making |
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| Quin was dying to make a salamander room! I helped him collect the moss and we went on a salamander hunt together. Just the 2 of us! What a great time we had together! |
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| Paper strip art on contact paper. This sat in the middle of our dinner table all day and each time we had a snack or meal, we added more to it! |
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| A spooky bath following a day filled with holiday festivities! |
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