An absolute fun Paper Toy to Color, Craft and Play with! Turn this Paper Toy Spring Kaleidocycle endlessly. Templates and tutorial available here!
Completed in 2009 in . Images by Jesús Granada. The aim of this project was to help the development of psychomotor, mental, and social abilities. At an early age and instinctively, children...
The work of Brooklyn-based photographer Daniel Dorsa refuses definition, toying with light and color as it intimately portraits people, and the world around them.
Three coloring/worksheets to explore feelings of anger plus a colored example. Looking at feelings people see and don't see: ~ Understanding anger ~ Can be used with clients in session or emailed to them to use before the session ~Also, a great tool for parents or teachers to use with kids What you see is only a small part of what’s really there. Like a volcano, the bulk of behavior is found below the surface. This tool allows us to explore what other emotions could be at play in the triggering event. The Angry Volcano represents the idea that, although anger is displayed outwardly, other emotions may be hidden beneath the surface. These other feelings—such as sadness, fear, or guilt—might cause a person to feel vulnerable, or they may not have the skills to manage them effectively. By exploring what’s beneath the surface, clients can gain insight into their anger, such as other possible treatment avenues. For example, a client who realizes their anger is fueled by jealousy may benefit from communication skills, whereas a client who realizes their anger is caused by stress will benefit from developing self-care habits. The Angry Volcano worksheet can be used in multiple ways. It works well as a group discussion piece, or as an activity where clients identify and circle their own hidden emotions. Try the following discussion questions to get started: ~ Imagine a friend is facing a situation that’s similar to one of your own anger triggers. What emotions do you think they might feel, other than anger? ~ In your family, or in the culture you grew up in, what emotions do people freely express? What emotions do they keep to themselves? ~ Imagine a person who handles difficult emotions—such as sadness, fear, or hurt— effectively. How do they show these emotions? ~What do they do to cope with them? ~ Anger has sometimes been used to mask emotions that make a person feel vulnerable, such as hurt or shame. Can you think of a time you expressed anger in order to conceal another emotion you were feeling?
Craft project: Use red, blue and yellow cellophane to make a color wheel that teaches about combining the primary colors. Have your child see how many colors can be made by overlapping the cellophane layers. To see even more colors, the color wheel doubles as a spy glass that your child can look through to make the colors of things change.
We absolutely LOVE the Kodo Kids Light Lab! This light table is magnificent! The Kodo Kids Light Lab is a round light table that is removable from it's stand and can be used on the floor too. It is LED and changes colors as well. This light table is the total package! It even comes with a beautiful removable sand tray! The Kodo Kids Light Lab also comes with a beautiful set of wireless controls with perfect kid size knobs to change the color of the light table! It even has three programmable buttons to remember three of your favorite colors. This light table is very unique in the fact that it can be both a light table that you stand or sit in a chair at, and a light table you sit on the floor to play with. Infants and young toddlers can even sit on it to play, when it is on the floor. The sand tray is a really great aspect of this light table as well. It makes sensory box play very easy! You can put dried and colored rice or pasta on the sand tray as well as any type of play sand, moon sand, kinetic sand, etc. One of my favorite features about the Kodo Kids Light Lab is that the bluest blue color acts as a black light! Check out our amazing pics below! Find the Kodo Kids light lab HERE Please be sure to check out our videos and photos below! My twins absolutely love the Kodo Kids Light Lab! It is just gorgeous! See hundreds more awesome light table play and light play ideas on Light Table Play 101 Follow Epic Childhood's board Light Table Play 101 on Pinterest.
Follow us on Pinterest Cornflour Slime (or Cornstarch Slime) is a favourite activity of teachers and parents around the world. It is very popular as it's incredibly easy to make, doesn't use any nasty chemicals and has amazing properties unlike anything you may have experienced before. It is sure to delight young and old alike! This is a great activity to introduce your kids to the concepts of fluids and solids, because unlike most fluids (which are something that can flow), when applying pressure, this mixture acts like a solid. You can read more about the science behind why it does that, here and here. Materials: Cornflour (Cornstarch) Water Large bowl and spoon food colouring (optional) Directions: Pour your cornflour (or cornstarch) into a large bowl. You will need at least double the amount of cornflour to water. (So, if you have 2 cups of cornflour, you'll add approx 1 cup of water, but experiment with this, that's the fun part!) Add some food colouring to your water. What not to do: Do NOT add a lot of blue food colouring. Your hands will end up stained, like ours. You should use no more than 4-5 drops (my daughter added quite a bit more than this while I was photographing) and perhaps go with a green (most popular) or red. Slowly add your water to your cornflour ensuring not to add more than half the amount of water to cornflour ratio. Give it a stir part way through. This is a fun part of the experimenting. It allows the children to see what is happening at this point and make decisions as to whether more water is required or not. They decided that more liquid was required! Oooh, starting to get there! Check out this solid lump we made! You will know when your slime has all come together. It should be easy to stir slowly and flow like a liquid but try giving it a fast stir and see what happens! Woah! What is big sister doing? I've got to try this as well! Can you catch it? Can you stop it from flowing? Fun with slime Part of the fun is getting the mix right so that you can form a solid (like a ball) that then turns into a fluid. Challenge children to roll a ball. Can they bounce it? Can they keep it from "melting" (lots of giggles here!) If you can not form a ball, try adding a little bit more cornflour (cornstarch) until you can. Try some of the experiments they do with their cornflour slime here. Try adding some little plastic creatures like dinosaurs or insects to your slime to further the play. You could add plastic numbers or letters to further enhance the learning from this activity. Handy Tips: - If you missed our "What not to do" in the body of the post, it was in relation to using the colour blue and the amount of food colouring you need. We ended up with blue stained hands so if you want to avoid that, try using another colour or using no more than 4-5 drops of food colour. If you do happen to stain your hands, bicarb of soda should help you get the colour out of your skin. - Keep a bit of cornflour (cornstarch) on the side so that if your over enthusiastic children tip in too much water, you will always have some extra cornflour to make the mix right. Our slime ended up with a little bit more water than I would have liked but we just had to go with it as little N had already tipped in all of our remaining cornflour. Next time I will keep a bit extra on the side just in case. - Cleaning up. This really isn't as terrible as it looks! If you're really concerned about mess, try this activity outside or in a bathtub, otherwise, you will find that any little droplets that end up on the floor or table, dry out very quickly and can be easily swept or vaccumed up. We really would have had very little mess if it wasn't for little N wanting to constantly wander off from the table with handfuls of dripping slime... but it really wasn't a big deal. :) - You can keep your cornflour slime, covered in the fridge for a couple of days without it going bad. You may need to add some more water and give it a good stir to reinvigorate it! Check out some of our other Recipes for Play Click the picture to go to the post Happy Playing, Debs :) Look where else we are. Are you following along? :) New Here? Subscribe to get all activities sent directly to you Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner
Color mixing with light is a fun activity for kids to learn about what happens when you mix different colors. The thing is, light does not always react the same way as mixing colored paints.
Welcome back to the "Playful Maths" series brought to you by Learn with Play at home (us) and The Imagination Tree Together, let's make MATHS FUN! ............................................................................................................ Last week I shared a Playdough Flower Mat. This weeks Playful Maths Activities also uses the sensory material Play dough (playdoh). In this activity we are focusing on length, measurement and patterns. Other skills involved include fine motor, comparing and ordering. Ages: 2+ (Maddie is currently 4) (See the Handy Tips at the bottom to simplify or extend to meet your child's needs) Materials: Playdough, assorted googly eyes (optional*), assorted sequins (optional*) (*you can use your own alternatives for these. ie you could poke the eyes in, use pebbles for eyes, decorate with buttons, natural materials..etc.etc) "Let's make snakes" was the only thing I said before Maddie was off and rolling! She leapt into this activity so quickly that there was barely time to snap what she was doing. She loved choosing from the range of different sized eyes. (She decided upon "medium" sized eyes for her "medium" sized snake) As soon as one snake was made it was onto the next. This time a "baby snake" The baby snake was very tiny and much smaller compared to the first snake. I challenged her: "Can you make another snake the same length as the first snake?" Comparing the lengths she discovered her snake was shorter than the first snake. She knew it had to be longer so she added extra playdough But then it was too long so she promptly chopped the tail to make them the same length. "I'm making a GIGANTIC snake now" It wasn't easy to roll out something so long without breaking it. It was also a challenge to keep the thickness the same. She decided this one would be the same length as the table. And of course it got the biggest eyes. We compared the length of the giant snake to the other snakes she'd made and were thrilled to discover that it was the same length as 2 medium snakes and 2 small snakes. We then ordered the snakes from smallest to largest or shortest to longest. Maddie made a few more snakes and slotted them in between the other snakes according to it's length. She decided she'd made enough snakes and then moved them into a pattern on the table. She was incredibly keen to decorate the snakes. I didn't specifically request patterning but we were able to practice some of that too. We used a variety of different coloured, shaped sequins which we reuse a lot of the time. She started decorating the "baby snakes" while I started a repetitive pattern on the "grandma snake" There was a lot of dialogue that went on during our play. Explanations of why each snake was patterned in a certain way, their names, where they fit in the "snake family" and so on. Sequins are especially good for practicing pincer grip (as are the googly eyes!) and working those fine-motor skills. They can be tricky though. She discovered my pattern and wanted to complete it. She then did her own repetitive pattern using 4 different elements that I was really impressed with. (It's the silver leaf, silver heart, gold moon, gold star pattern on the snake with the yellow eyes. Not bad for a 4 year old) :) Our snake family. Yes, this was maths. We had a ball! Handy Tips - Simplify this activity by assisting your child to roll out a couple of snakes and talk about one being longer than the other. Try adding another snake in to make one large, medium and small snake. - Extend this activity by: Using informal units to measure the snakes (ie. the biggest snake is 10 hands long) Using formal measurement to find the lengths (ie. a tape measure) Using the snakes to measure things around the house/classroom (the sofa is 3 snakes long) Writing about the different snakes and their lengths Making up a narrative and then performing it with the snakes as characters - Mix it up with different coloured playdough and other decorative materials such as beads, buttons, pebbles etc. - Change the activity by making snakes from stockings filled with scrunched paper to use for measurement. You could make it exactly 1 metre long and take it around for measuring fun. - Use the mathematical language that goes naturally with this activity, such as, "length," "measure," "big," "small," "long," short," "medium," "pattern," etc - We used our no-cook playdough recipe to make the playdough used in this activity. - Did you see our Playful Maths with Natural Materials? Turns out they were very popular so if you haven't seen them, click the pictures below to check them out. You can see the rest of our Playful Maths here. So far we've covered a range of easily accessible materials, many of which were recycled or came from nature. Don't forget to join us next week where we're bringing you more Playful Maths activities. Happy playing, Debs :) Follow the entire series on our Playful Maths Pinterest Board. Look where else we are. Are you following along? :) New Here? Subscribe to get all activities sent directly to you Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner
Fun Science for Kids: Elephant Toothpaste!
What happens when you put two insanely talented and beautiful women together? This shoot…featuring the designer behind Heyoka Leather — Leslie Crow — and shot by photographer Alexandra Valenti (who shot our July ’11 book). I can’t stop looking at these images — they are works of art! If you want to learn more about these […]
And it is LIVE ! Thanks so much to Jen for inviting to contribute to this season's issue of Classic Play , all about science ! Its been an...
Teach prepositions with this adorable color worksheet featuring a kitty who loves to play ON, IN, UNDER, NEXT TO, IN FRONT OF, AND BEHIND a cardboard box. Anyone with a cat will know how true this is. Please rate our store right MEOW! =)...
Have you ever started out doing one thing and ended up with something totally different? That's what happened when we tried an exploding milk experiment. It started off as a completely innocent experiment using milk, food coloring and dish soap and ended up as a bubbly, fizzy adventure. We did all of these activities at once but you can split them up over a series of days culminating with this bubbling milk activity. If you are in the mood for more science activities for kids, try our Making Color Disappear experiment. You will need: MilkDish soap in a small cupFood coloringTooth picksBaking
There are so many ways to explore light in the classroom with your students I have a small light table that is always out and available for play in my classroom. I use this light table for simple activities and try to keep something out and available for light table play every single day...
Here is what we made at the preschool this week. I have long been enchanted by Salley Mavor's use of milkweed pods for her wee folk, so I knew immediately when I stumbled across this beautiful post at Twig and...
This free printable Do Re Mi staircase is a brilliant visual aid and teaching tool for introducing small children to Do Re Mi and interval recognition.
Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam is known for her massive, colorful architectural sculptures/playgrounds. The most famous example of her work is the...
Easy to make no mess colour theory experiment to explore mixing of primary colours to secondary colours.
Hattifant Kaleidocycles - such a fun paper toy to color, craft and play with. Also called Flextangle, its a papercraft free to download.
We have had a lot of rain lately, and they still like to get outside to play. So we are improvising with rain boots and umbrellas. Hopefully we get some sunny days soon! See the pics below to see what we did with the umbrella's inside!!! Some fun Reggio inspired play! Exploring shadows and color with the overhead projector, blocks, and umbrellas!
The works of Japanese artist Naomi Okubo are filled with beauty, contradictions and colors of all kinds (2)
Katie Loves …how Danish textile artists Helle Gråbæk and Maria Kirk Mikkelsen have played with paper weaving to make these beautiful squares of color and...
I have a new freebie set ready this week! This set has three puzzles all about bunnies! Not quite in time for Easter, but it's generic enough for any time of the year. One puzzle is a maze in which solvers have to help the mommy bunny gather up her baby bunnies from around the garden. Another puzzle teaches students about bunny related words while they find them in a word search. And the last puzzle challenges students to help a bunny across a river to find her pile of veggies! This puzzle is a new puzzle for me, and I'm excited about it! The solvers has to follow a pattern of shapes, hopping along each shape 'stepping stone', to get to the other side. My kids and I enjoyed doing these! (You can find more of these puzzles in my All About Shapes puzzle pack too!) All About Shapes is available in my TpT store for $4.00 and contains 20 puzzles for young solvers. These puzzles are geared towards kindergarteners and first graders, but pre-schoolers should be able to handle many of these puzzles with help from their parents. This pack contains 3 dot-to-dots, 3 river crossings, 3 mazes, 3 word searches, 4 coloring pages, 2 counting riddles, a sudoku, and a crossword! It's packed with fun ways to practice shape recognition and even learn some new shapes! You can download the Cub Corner or purchase All About Shapes at my TpT store! UPDATE: I no longer have the Cub Corner sets in my store. Just click on the picture to download. Also, the All About Shapes set has been retired, so you can download a free copy by clicking on that picture. Enjoy!
Create some beautiful rainbow marshmallow and toothpick structures in this colourful, mathematical invitation to play for kids of all ages!
An afternoon of active fun, this walk the line activity works on balancing, new fun movements, and sets up a challenge for kids to enjoy!
Our ultimate checklist of the best things to do and see in Tokyo, from museums and art galleries to restaurants and bars
7 nap 7 ötlet „Öt ördög öt tököt gödörbe dögönyöz.” „Tökkelütött ördög töméntelen tökmagot tarisznyába tömköd.” Készítette: Karczewicz Ágnes 1. Mozgásos játékok: (A tökgurítás, -cipelés, talicskázás, akadálypályák legyőzése mellé még egy-két ötlet). Mozgásutánzó: A gyerekek vonalban állnak egymás mellett. Az első kiáll a többiek elé, és mozgásokat mutat, amit utánozni kell. […]
Print these prepositions of place vocabulary cards on sturdy paper. Have students color and cut them. They can then use them as mini picture cards or to play simple card games such as “memory.”
A photo journal of our day reading and doing activities on The Worst Princess as part of The Summer Book Exchange project.
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Children are fascinated by shadows. Add these props and let them explore!
Loose parts come in all different shapes, sizes and colors. They stimulate the imagination and develop fine motor skills in kids of all ages. Set up invitations to play and see the true beauty of childhood innocence come forth while kids explore their prompts.
Printable Christmas Hand Bell Music PDF - 13 color-coded notes and lyrics to popular Christmas songs. Easy for kids and beginners!
Image 10 of 19 from gallery of Meet the Artist Behind Those Amazing, Hand-Knitted Playgrounds. Photograph by Masaki Koizum
CREATE GIANT KID SIZE SPIROGRAPH DRAWINGS
Rannoch Armistice Party Comics 2/???? There's actually an Epilogue to this, but that's for another post!
About NieR Art – Koda Kazuma Works The first art book from acclaimed video game concept artist Koda Kazuma, depicting the decadent and haunting worlds of NieR . This hardcover, full-color volume presents the works created by concept artist Koda Kazuma for the award-winning games NieR:Automata, NieR Re[in]carnation, and NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… In addition to concept art for the games, this book includes promotional images for the YoRHa stage plays, album cover art, rough sketches, exclusive new pieces, and commentary from the artist.
A benefit of moving to a new room is finding new ways to present activities. That's what happen today with the overhead projector. This is our nature exploration area. Above and around it is an old canopy frame. I hung a white sheet from the frame. Then set up the overhead projector on a riser. You can see the shadows from both sides. Awesome effect! With the overhead projector I set a basket of animals and this book "Who Will See Their Shadow This Year?" A few children instantly made the connection between placing an object on the overhead projector and what happened on the big screen. A few others experimented. Does it work if I hold the toy up here? Then we moved our photos from the light table (see earlier post) to the overhead projector. They became supersized. I took more pictures of the children present today and quickly copied them on to transparencies. Storytelling time. "Giraffe went for a walk and met..." And the fun of identifying the shadows. And getting physically involved. He's jumping to reach the owl shadow. Can't wait to see how it changes tomorrow.
The other day, my teens were having a dispute. Unkind words were being thrown back and forth like ping pong balls. My otherwise amiable children were not being so amiable. I was not happy. I decided it was time to enlighten them on the importance of thinking before speaking, a valuable asset in the adult world. I remembered seeing posters and images on the internet which said, "Before you speak: THINK." THINK is an acronym for "Is it True? Is it Helpful? Is it Inspiring? Is it Necessary? Is it Kind?" That was just what I needed so I got to work to make my own poster for our homeschool room. I opened up InDesign. I chose a cat font since my daughters love cats. I used it for the word, "THINK" and selected a different font for the rest of the poster. I laid out all of the text in various text boxes. When I finished, I printed it off and hung it up in plain view. My daughters got the point. The unpleasant word usage has been reduced. If it starts to rear its ugly head again, I just point to the poster. Thank you, internet. I thought that you might also like to have a THINK poster, so I created some free printables using a variety of fonts. (I love fonts!) Here they are.
Color mixing with light is a fun activity for kids to learn about what happens when you mix different colors. The thing is, light does not always react the same way as mixing colored paints.
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