This Past Week...

Our Spring Trees: art sand, glitter, and glue

Rock "Marble" Painting:

The kids collected rocks, and then...
..scooped them out of blue and green paint (for the colors of our Earth)
..and then they had to SHAKE it as hard as possible, their favorite part!

They loved seeing their messy end product!

We Planted Onions in the garden boxes on the small playground...

This is our class globe

The children colored the rice on their own and then as a whole group put on lots of glue and spread out all of the rice.

How to color rice:

Materials: rice, rubbing alcohol, food coloring, container

1. Place the rice into a container
2. Mix in some rubbing alcohol (you want it to be wet enough so that it will mix with the food coloring, but not too wet)
3. Add food coloring (a couple of drops--more or less depending on amount of rice)
4. Stir and place on a paper plate or towel to dry.

Once dry, your children would love to play with it. You can see it here in our sensory bin!

Earth Day: At Home Activities

There are so many things you could do with your children to help them understand how to keep our environment clean and safe! You can click on the picture below to take you to a great list of fantastic activities, crafts, and snacks for you and your children to do together! 

(You may have to pick and choose what is age appropriate, but you can always modify things so that you can all join in the fun!)

Here is another great source for Earth Day activities that includes more craft and activity ideas! 

(Again, you may have to pick and choose or modify for it to be age appropriate)

Earth Week!

This week we will be taking advantage of two amazing days, Earth Day and Arbors Day. The toddlers will be focusing on understanding what it means to keep our earth looking beautiful! We will be making globes, planting flowers, and crafting with parts of trees that we can find.

Song of the Week:

Litter Bugs "Frere Jacques"
We're not litterbugs
We're not litterbugs,
No siree, no siree!
We pick up our trash,
We pick up our trash,
Yes siree, yes siree!

Shape of the week: Diamond

Color of the week: Purple
Family Project: Make a family tree with your toddlers