This past weekend was really busy. Monkey turned 5 years old on Saturday and since then, we’ve been battling various rounds of illness in the house. I’m also currently working on some curriculum development stuff for next school year (reading content standards and developing a science and geography & culture curriculum). So, unfortunately this week’s posts are kind of drive by posts…
I changed out the sensory bin to get rid of the Christmas theme and add a different winter theme. It's pretty much the "winter that wasn't" here in central Ohio, so I put a fake snow sensory bin out. It's a bag of pillow fluff (from the sewing aisle at any craft store), some foam snowflakes, pom pom "snowballs", and some polar animals--penguins, seals, whales, etc. The kids actually love this bin a lot, surprisingly. I thought they weren't going to stick with it long, but they actually do play in it for a long time every day!
Up close in the bin
Both girls really loved color mixing work, so we had that out a lot. This one involves 6 test tubes with 1 tube filled with red water, one with blue water, and one with yellow water.
I also brought out some quill writing. We had a pheasant feather from a nature walk a long time ago. I snipped the end so that it had a diagonal point. Then I mixed some black tempura paint with a little bit of water. The kids loved making little messages with the quill!
Making a collage of triangles!
Monkey making about 2 dozen messages with the quill. 🙂
Monkey liked working with the test tube color mixing so much that she rarely gave it up. So, at the last minute, I brought out an old ice cube tray and filled it with water (1/3-1/2 of each cube filled). I put red, yellow, green, and blue food coloring in 4 of the cubes and let her go all out mixing the colors.
Look at all of her pretty colors!
Using tongs to transfer glass beads into the heart tray.
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