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Invitation to Explore Specimens
Environments® earlySTEM™ Specimen Viewers encourage little scientists with real plants and animals! Children can hold, turn, and examine...
Nov 17, 20201 min read


Invitation to Create Leafy Critters
Absorbing nature around us and gathering natural materials as much as possible in the early childhood setting provides opportunity for...
Nov 16, 20201 min read


Invitation to Scraper Paint Abstract Art
The power of wonder and laying the foundation for that creativity through the process of art is essential to children. "When children...
Nov 14, 20201 min read


Invitation to Explore Life Cycles
This invitation is set with Discount School Supply’s Environments® earlySTEM™ Life Cycles Nesting Puzzles plus small world habitats of...
Nov 11, 20201 min read


Invitation to Explore Spices
Lots of times while cooking occurs children want to smell or taste what is being made. With the holidays approaching, a great invitation...
Nov 10, 20202 min read


Invitation to Explore Sensory Tubes
A sensory tube or bottle is any sealable container filled with a base with different types of objects to develop their senses and...
Nov 8, 20201 min read


Invitation to Explore Translucent Stacking Pegs on the Light Table
Anything that’s translucent will make for magic on any light table. Discount School Supply’s Environments® earlySTEM™ Translucent...
Nov 6, 20201 min read


The Importance of Loose Parts Play + Giveaway
For those who value play and advocate inspiring creativity within children loose parts provides endless opportunities to continuously...
Nov 6, 20202 min read


Fall Finger Gym
Finger gyms are the perfect invitations to create a challenge to be able to grasp objects with a child's whole hand or with thumb and...
Nov 3, 20201 min read


Invitation to VOTE
An election year is a great opportunity to not only talk with children about civic responsibility but an optimal way to lay the...
Oct 30, 20202 min read


Frozen Fizzy Haunted Mansion
Take your sand castle moulds, fill it with baking soda, water, and Colorations Liquid Water Colors. You can add glitter for a sparkling...
Oct 28, 20201 min read


Invitation to Create Pumpkin Pie with Loose Parts & Play-Dough
Creating invitations with loose parts and play-dough with materials that connect what’s happening in the world around them provokes a...
Oct 27, 20201 min read


Invitation to Explore Creepy Bottles
Toddlers are ALWAYS on the go and seeking out to lift and move heavy things. At times it seems as toddlers grow they are constantly...
Oct 21, 20201 min read


Invitation to Create Bubbly Witch Potions
There are so many wondrous takes on creating potions during this time of year. An all time favorite is Bubbly Witch Potions. To create...
Oct 20, 20202 min read


Invitation to Create Hocus Pocus Potion
This invitation to create Hocus Pocus Potion on the Excellerations® Outdoor Sensory Mixing Table is the perfect way to ignite creativity...
Oct 18, 20202 min read


Invitation to Drip Paint on Pumpkins
Process art has a beautiful way of transforming into STEAM experiences. This @friendsartlab inspired invitation makes a child or children...
Oct 13, 20202 min read


Invitation to Explore Ooey, gooey, MONSTER SLIME!
Raise your hand if all the recipes you have ever tried to make slime never come out right? Discount School Supply's non toxic Classroom...
Oct 13, 20201 min read


Invitation to Create a Spooky House
With Excellerations® Building Brilliance® Magnetic Clear, LED tea lights, creepy crawlers, eyeballs, spider webs, bats, and skulls placed...
Oct 10, 20201 min read


Invitation to Build Five Little Pumpkins
After reading or singing the story Five Little Pumpkins, integrating the literacy experience with a STEM invitation is a great way to...
Oct 7, 20202 min read


Invitation to Finger Paint Fall Leaves
With the changes in the leaves all around. Setting up an provocation where a child paints with the colors of the changing leaves is great...
Oct 6, 20202 min read
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