Last month we were at a Children’s Museum and my boys were obsessed with racing wooden boats down a soapy ramp. They could have been there for hours doing that one activity! After we came home, I brainstormed ways we could do a similar activity at home. I came up with something close and the boys LOVED it! I have a feeling we will be doing a lot of soap boat racing this summer! Here's what you need for the activity: rain gutter (we found ours at Lowes...and it is quite long. Just picture … [Read more...]
Pool Noodle Water Wall
Hey friends! I have a neat activity to share today that will keep kids busy all summer long! I call it our Pool Noodle Water Wall! It is so much fun and I know your kids will absolutely love it! To make this water wall, you will need just 3 supplies: 3 or more pool noodles (ours are from The Dollar Tree) zip ties peg board (we got ours at Lowe’s for around $6) You can create your pool noodle water wall however you’d like! Feel free to follow the pattern we did or just make up … [Read more...]
Penguin Sensory Sink
My kids love penguins! I'm not sure what it is about penguins, but they are naturally drawn to them. Their interest in penguins started after watching an episode of Elmo's World. They learned a lot about penguins and kept wanting to know more. So we read penguin books and talked a lot about penguins. I thought we would put what we learned into action, so we made a penguin sensory sink. It was so much fun! Here's what we used: 1. Penguins TOOB 2. Blue jello (I sprinkled a little in the … [Read more...]
Alphabet Game with Water Balloons
My kids love playing games, especially with water. As I was thinking of ways for my preschooler practice alphabet letter sounds, I came up with this game. For this game, all you need is water balloons (or regular balloons), alphabet letters (from games like Scrabble or Bananagrams), and small objects. I used a dinosaur, horse, cow and marble. We just picked 4 letters for this game, but you could do more. To prepare for the game, put each object and letter in separate balloons. To do … [Read more...]
5 Water Activities for Preschoolers
Water is the theme of our week as we learn about the letter W. With the weather being nice, we love doing water activities on our back deck. We did 5 science experiments with water. First, we did an estimation activity. I gave Troy a beaker of red water and a water dropper. I asked him to guess how many droppers it would take to fill the tiny beaker (which was 50mL). He guessed only 1 time. As you can tell, this was our first time doing anything with estimation. We tried one dropper and he … [Read more...]
Letter W & Alphabet Matching Game
Happy Monday! Our new letter of the week is 'W' and I've got some fun ideas to share with you! The weather is warming up, which means we'll be staying cool with water activities. My boys love water, so I thought centering W activities around water would be fun for them. To start out the week, we talked about what W sounds like. Then we opened our letter W alphabet box. I had him take out each item and tell me what they were. We listened for the /w/ sounds in each object. We also made our … [Read more...]
