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Water Beads Excavation
Get the most out of using your water beads. After letting your children play with water beads in other invitations, you can get the last...
May 22, 20201 min read


Sticks and Play-Dough
You can make home made play dough as a cooking activity ahead of time. Go on a walk or in your yard. Forage sticks. Set up a this...
May 22, 20201 min read


Cardboard Ball Ramp
Save those cardboard packages! Create a ramp by cutting it into a long rectangular shape. You can make different sized ramps to predict...
May 20, 20201 min read


Scissor Skills Busy Basket
Providing your child with lots of opportunities to develop their fine motor skills strengthens their muscles in the hands and prepares...
May 20, 20201 min read


Water Bead Transfer
In a sensory bin provide water beads. Have your child transfer the water beads either with their hands, tongs, tweezers, handy scoopers,...
May 20, 20201 min read


Car Wash
Take out your child’s plastic cars. Provide your child with a bucket of soapy water, sponges and hand towels. Let them have their very...
May 20, 20201 min read


Pouring Station
In a sensory bin, bathtub, sink, or kiddie pool have your child pour and measure a sensory material (water, beans, rice, pasta,...
May 20, 20201 min read


Nature Color Scavenger Hunt
On a piece of paper or paper bag, either help your child or let them color a range of different colors with markers, crayons, or colored...
May 20, 20201 min read


Primary Colors Unit
Primary Color Squishy Bags: Grab three Ziploc bags. In the each bag place the paint color combos of yellow + blue, blue + red, and red +...
May 19, 20201 min read


Earth Day Unit
Coffee Filter Earth🌎🌏🌍: Place a coffee filter on a tray, provide blue and green Colorations liquid watercolors, food coloring, or...
May 19, 20201 min read


Bathing Baby Dolls
Provide your child with wash cloths, soap, baby doll, and a sensory bin (bowl, bath tub, sink) filled with water and let them bathe their...
May 17, 20201 min read


Invitation to Explore with Easter Eggs
Egg Roller Painting: This is just like marble painting but with eggs. Take a plastic eggs and put two marbles or rocks inside. You can...
May 17, 20202 min read


Invitation to Explore Sticky Balloons and Balls
This invitation can be modified by height for any age. Simply take a strip of packaging tape place it from one point to the another,...
May 17, 20201 min read


Flower Soup
Go on a nature hunt, gather flowers, sticks, leaves and twigs. Place a sensory bin or a variety bowls, or Tupperware with water. Provide...
May 17, 20201 min read


Invitation to Explore the Rain
Rainy Day Window Art: Have your child paint on a baking tray or plastic bin (liquid water colors, diluted tempera paint, food coloring),...
May 16, 20202 min read


Invitation to Make & Explore Jell-O
First, if your child is old enough to make the Jell-O together do as a cooking activity. You can make up more than one batch with...
May 16, 20201 min read


DIY Sensory Blocks
All you need is plastic tupperware, loose parts (twigs,rocks, rice, dried beans, shells, salt, sugar, craft materials, etc.) and crazy...
May 14, 20201 min read
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