Bring on the Rain

It has been raining a lot here and one night as I was browsing through 

Pinterest when I saw this great idea.

I taped our handy pizza box easel to the table

and set out diluted paint with eye droppers.

The images of people with umbrellas I found by searching google.

The children loved squeezing the paint and watching it run down the paper.

A couple of times I would sing 

"It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring..."

Some are learning how to use an eye dropper and started 

by dragging the dropper across the paper.

We had to add paper towel at the bottom to soak up the 

extra "rain".

 

A tranquil art activity.

A New Recipe

This week we made Apple Cinnamon Quinoa Oatmeal Muffins.

You can find the recipe at Family Food on the Table.

 We started by peeling the apples.

Then we gathered the rest of the ingredients.

One cup of oatmeal,

and one cup of quinoa (already cooked).

Cinnamon, brown sugar and white sugar smell so good.

Blend them altogether.

Next we added two eggs,

and the apples.

Ready to scoop them into the greased muffin tins.

Delicious.

I think we may make them again but change the apples for carrots.

Painting with Clouds

With our easel ready in our sensory tub I added two trays,

paint brushes and squeegees.

Oh and shaving cream (aka clouds)

I thought the children would paint with the brush

and clear off the easel with the squeegee,

 but they showed me that a squeegee works as a great brush too.

By putting the easel in the tub it contains the shaving cream

even when toddlers use it.

I wonder what else I could use on this easel?

Working Together

I like when an idea I have and an interest a child has comes together.

That's what happened on Monday.

I wanted to make a little easel to put in our sensory tub.

At the same this little guy arrived at school with his measuring tape.

He was ready to measure.

As he went to play I continued to look around my storage room

for something that would work.

I found a large piece of flex board in the perfect colour.

I asked the little guy if he wanted to help me.

We measured and marked the board then cut it together.

But when we put it in the tub it was too big

(I had measured it myself the first time)

But that was okay, it meant that we had to remeasure,

mark and cut again.

 It felt so good doing this activity with someone who was so interested.

Stay tuned to tomorrow to see what we did with it.

Airport Play

Spring Break when families may be traveling by plane

 we set up one of our favourite dramatic plays.

Have a look at how it went (and is still going).

Our sign in question for the week "Have you been on an airplane?

Before touring the airport we set up our airplane.

So much fun.

Then we worked on our airport while we had several tours of our local airport.

We arrived just when the planes were arriving.

So we went upstairs so we could watch what happens.

We went downstairs to the ticket counter and checked our luggage.

We watched it disappear on the conveyor belt

then we followed it to see it x-rayed and where the luggage handlers

move it on to the the carts.

Finally back inside the airport we watched it arrive on the carousel.

While we were with the luggage handlers we learned how they marshal the planes

into their parking spots.

Back at school we practiced what we learned.

One last stop at the airport was to the security gate.

Some of the children experienced being scanned with the wand.

Back at school the families played using what they learned.

Checking in,

through security,

and sending their luggage through the x-ray machine.

Then realizing that we needed a luggage cart

and making it using a scooter board and pvc piping.

Becoming a luggage handler and stowing the suitcase safely on the plane.

Ready to take off.