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Apple Printing

September 15, 2015 By Callie Leave a Comment

It’s Fall! Now for those of you in my beloved New England that means apple picking. For those of us in the deep south that means buying some apples at the store.

I decided to break out the apples and the paint to get us into the swing of Fall and Row loved it.

This was an activity I did every year in Kindergarten. I’ll share all the ways you can squeeze learning into this fun craft.

Simply gather an apple and split in half. I like to put Popsicle sticks through the centers so that they are more easily held for printing.

Place paint on your plates and dip. I also love to use a large restaurant sized cookie sheet for painting because it holds the paper in place as well as the mess.

It’s fun to press each apple onto the paper and lift to make a print and for toddlers it’s also fun to paint.

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This simple activity lasted about 30 minutes-not to shabby for a 2 year old.

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Now let’s bring the teacher out and talk about all the amazing teacher points you can hit on during this craft. We spoke about the colors of paint and I asked Row to dip in specific colors as we painted=color recognition. We talked about the way the apple felt=attributes-small, large, color and weight. We talked about the mass=weight, heavy and light.

How can you enrich this activity for school aged children? Add more colors and talk about primary and secondary colors as they print/paint. Talk about plants and discuss the parts of an apple, the skin, flesh, seeds. Discuss the plant life cycle. Oh and have fun!

 

Filed Under: Crafts, Fall, School Readiness, Teacher Tips, Toddler Time, Tutorials, Uncategorized Tagged With: apple, art, crafts, enrichment, fall, gross motor, paint, printing, school readiness, toddler time

Shaving Cream Sensory Bag

August 19, 2014 By Callie 1 Comment

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Sensory bags are an easy way we as parents can encourage our children to learn through exploration independently, inexpensively, and easily.

Sensory bags enable our children to explore the world around them and discover using their five senses. Shaving cream sensory bags can easily be enriched for children as they grow as well! Tuck this one into your fun kid activities list! BTW-I have one of those on my Pinterest board should you want to go take a peek.

I stumbled upon a website called Growing a Jeweled Rose while teaching one year and simply love it. They have the most creative and fun activities for children of all ages. Fun things like sensory baths, themed play, mud play, ice play-it’s endless really.

Row is 22 months and loves exploring. I want her to feel comfortable in her environment. Part of that is desensitizing her to a variety of textures. A common way we do this is through sensory bags. Let’s make one! Have an older child? I’ll enrich this for you too! What does that mean? Enrich-I will show you how you can use this with older children by changing it up a bit!

Supplies-Ziploc Bag-I used the gallon size, shaving cream-dollar store!, food coloring, and duct tape DON’T FORGET THE DUCT TAPE! (Notice how in the picture there is no duct tape-um yeah.)

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Shake your shaving cream and fill the bag halfway, add some food coloring drops-to start you could just do one color-we did two. Fill the remaining bag with more shaving cream and add the second color if you so desire. Zip. TAPE! Don’t forget the tape part or you will be sorry.

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I like to let Row play with sensory bags somewhat supervised-meaning in the high chair with me in the kitchen. I enjoy giving her time to explore on her own casually checking and encouraging as needed. The shaving cream bags feel really cool! They only last a day or two but they’re fun and inexpensive. They feel cool to the touch and fluffy which is pretty neat!

This is also an easy rainy day activity!

Enrichment-hide objects inside and allow children to find while playing, mixing colors.

Four and Five Year Olds-Use science journals (notebook) to record what the bag looks like before being played with, have then draw a picture of what they predict will happen, and draw a picture of what did happen.

School Age-put letters inside and have children write a word that starts with the letter they found, put numbers inside-draw a picture with that many objects.

Have you used sensory bags before???

Filed Under: School Readiness, Sensory Bags, Sensory Play, Toddler Time, Tutorials Tagged With: enrichment, inexpensive, rainy day, school readiness, Sensory Bag, shaving cream, toddler

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