In the Tall, Tall Grass

Another favourite author and book of mine, Denise Fleming's 

"In the Tall, Tall Grass".

It is a great book to add to my grand daughter's interest in bugs.

To bring the book to life I placed a mirror at the back of her table, 

then cut out pieces of green bristol board to look like the grass in the book.

 My grand daughter laughs every time she sees the cover of the book with the child peeking through the grass.  So I thought it would be fun for her to see herself peeking through the grass.

Then Dad introduced the book.

From my collection of stuffies I found the animals, bugs and other creatures that are in the book.

Mom and Dad took some time to help her discover all the creatures in her basket and play with them.

  Lots of playing after that modelling from mom and dad.

 Helping the creatures hide and move in, out, 

over and around the grass.

 

At the end of the day the creatures rest and wait.

The next day, outside in the back yard, we spotted something lying in the tall, tall grass.  The landlord's cat found a cool place to lay.

Bubble Blow Painting

This week I invited the families to paint with coloured bubbles.

The bubble juice was coloured with food colouring and placed

in old muffin tins.

The children were encouraged to blow bubbles pointing at the easels.

The first challenge was to get enough bubble juice on the wand.

The parents were wonderful models on how to make it work.

 I enjoyed watching this father and son begin.

The father guided the wand into the bubble juice then up for his son to blow.

After trying it he handed the wand to his son to try it on his own.

A fun experience that they shared together.

By the end of each day we had lots of bubble prints on paper and

the table top was wonderfully coloured too.

But since it is soap it washes off.

We have been playing with bubble outside

so the children loved doing this activity

inside.

How Does a Baster Work?

Turkey basters - how do they work?

 We've used eye droppers a lot at the art table

and it's a challenge for most of the children.

This week I put turkey basters in the water table expecting them to be a challenge too.

I was impressed how much easier they seemed to be able to work the basters

compared to eye droppers.

Is it because they are that much bigger and they can use their whole hand?

 

The parents were wonderful modeling how the baster works and sitting back and letting their child try over and over again.

Here's a photo study of concentration.

After a week of using the baster we will use eye droppers again soon.