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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 own car wash!

In a sensory bin , bathtub, sink, or kiddie pool have your child pour and measure a sensory material (water, beans, rice, pasta, waterbeads etc.) with cups, recycled bottles, Tupperware, measuring cups/spoons, funnels, and bowls. Tip: To lessen the mess. Place a bed sheet, towel, blanket or mat as the base where the sensory play takes place for two reasons. 1) easier clean up 2) sets boundaries for the child to know that they can only play in that specified area

In a sensory bin , sink, water table, bathtub or kiddie pool let your child wash their play dishes ,Tupperware or real ones with soap, water, and a sponge.

Provide your child with a bucket, cup, or bowl full of water. Next provide them with a paintbrush and/or roller brushes and let them paint a fence, driveway, deck, etc.

Provide your child with paint , a baby doll , q-tips, paint brushes or just let them paint with their fingers. After they are done you can have them wash the doll for a sensory activity with soap, water, and a wash cloth.

In a cupcake tin place a base of drops of food coloring or liquid water colors . Next cover the color completely with baking soda until it is hidden. Provide your child with a condiment bottle, dropper , pipette , or medicine syringe. Have them squirt vinegar onto the baking soda to discover and reveal the hidden color through a chemical reaction.

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 pencils . Go on a nature walk or let your child go in their backyard and hunt for items to match those colors.

Primary Color Squishy Bags: Grab three Ziploc bags. In the each bag place the paint color combos of yellow + blue, blue + red, and red + yellow. Before letting them mix the colors ask them to predict what they think each bag will create. Let your child mix the colors. Color Theory Water Play: In a sensory bin , bathtub, water table, or kiddie pool, provide various sized bowls, Tupperware, and cups. Place drops of red, blue and yellow liquid water colors or food coloring. Have your child experiment mixing different colored water to create new ones. Color Mixing With Ice Cubes: Freeze ice in the primary colors red, blue, and yellow. You can use food coloring or liquid water colors . You can freeze them in Tupperware, silicon molds, or ice cube trays. Simply let them build and color mix through open ended exploration. You can have them explore in a sensory bin or on paper.

Coffee Filter Earth🌎🌏🌍: Place a coffee filter on a tray, provide blue and green Colorations liquid watercolors , food coloring, or watercolors. Provide your child with a paintbrush , dropper , or baster and let your child paint the earth. You can show a video or image of the earth as a point of reference! Earth Day🌎🌏🌍 Water Play: Use a sensory bin, large bowl, sink, or bath tub. Provide your child with cups, ladle, bowls, etc. Provide two separate containers of blue and green colored water. You can create the colored water with Liquid Water Colors or Food Coloring. Let your child engulf in water play. Balloon Stamping Earth🌎🌏🌍: Blow up a balloon or use a ball as the painting tool. Place a plate or bowl of blue and green paint . Provide your child with a paper, let them dip the balloon in the paint and print away!

Gather recycled materials: paper rolls, bottle caps, wine corks, bottles or anything they can print with. Place a sheet of paper , paint and let your child paint through printing with the recycled materials as their tool!

Collect a stash of recycled materials (egg cartons, bubble wrap, popsicle sticks bottle caps, paper tubes, cardboard, paper plates/bowls). Have your child glue all these materials on a large piece of cardboard or poster board. After it dries, hang it up on a fence, wall, door and let your child paint !

Collect a stash of recycled paper towel and toilet paper tubes. If your child is old enough let them cut them in various sizes, if they are not you can assist them. Provide glue and a piece of cardboard and let them build away. Let the sculpture dry. To further enhance this STEM experience provide them with paint and #lethtempaint.