Creativity + Kiddos
Easily create your own Foldable DIY Photography Light Tent and dramatically improve your product shots for photographing, marketing, and selling your own crafts.
Learn how to make a light box and try out some cool colr and light experiments with your kids! This is a fun experiment that kids love.
Licht en donker; 23 thema spelletjes en activiteiten voor peuters en kleuters
Learn how to make a light box and try out some cool colr and light experiments with your kids! This is a fun experiment that kids love.
10+ ideas for glow in the dark bottles to make with the kids. These discovery bottles are great for exploring sensory and science concepts.
Juf Evy vertelt hoe ze deze keer techniek met kleuters doet. De techniekkoffer is deze keer gevuld met allerlei materialen in het thema licht en donker.
I made these "light houses" from used milk boxes. The little secret is that you have to make many little openings so the plastic inside will not be burned.
Create a homemade light table for sensory play and investigation with kids, using simple and affordable items from around the home! About a year ago light tables or boxes suddenly took the kids’ activities online world by storm! I was enamoured by them as I had desperately wanted one in my Reception classroom but...Read More »
Foldable Homemade Light Box: From Time to time I find myself looking for a good spot to photograph a product, for instance for selling online. I saw some nice light boxes online and also here on Instructables but I needed something big enough but not big in storage, so I took s…
Juf Evy vertelt hoe ze deze keer techniek met kleuters doet. De techniekkoffer is deze keer gevuld met allerlei materialen in het thema licht en donker.
Craft Light Box: My fiancée is very keen on arts and crafts. A light box was just what she needed to be able to trace patterns onto paper and cloth. This light box is cheap, safe and easy to build - I put it together in two hours. A key part of this desi…
Today, I’m thrilled to share our simple no mess painting method! We love art on the light table, but we couldn’t figure out how to use actual paint without it being impossible to clean up. Since we use our light table for all kinds of ways to learn in the dark, we were thrilled tocontinue reading...
I found the perfect material to make sensory spaghetti with! I used plastic lacing that you use to make bracelets, lanyards, key chains and such. I found a package at wal-mart similar to THIS, in their craft section. It was a long pack with an array of colors. All the colors were translucent except for one which was a solid purple. I saved that for lacing and making craft stuff. This stuff is awesome! I cut long spaghetti size strips, with some a little longer and some a little shorter. It makes the best sensory spaghetti ever! One of the best things about it, is you are not wasting food! I do have some trouble justifying using edible food as play material. We do from time to time, but not very often. I will only use food from the dollar tree for making sensory pasta and rice. This plastic lacing is the perfect solution. The very best part is that it will never go bad! check out the fun light table photos! Please use the hashtag on all your social media, blogs, and website! Please take our button for your blog or website. Follow Epic Childhood's board Light Table Play 101 on Pinterest. Visit Epic Childhood's profile on Pinterest.
Nesting dolls are a wonderful addition to a child's toy collection. My oldest daughter has used this nesting doll for a long time now and she still has interest in it. She delights in opening the last doll to find the "baby" inside. Recently, I added the two largest dolls to my youngest daughter's (19 months) activity shelf. She is able to open and put the dolls back together and is working on the "nesting" part of it.
One of the questions asked quite a lot in some of the preschool groups I participate in, is for inspiration for the light table... and where to find it... So here is some inspiration from this blog... and a few other places too... of course there is always the delight of glittering transparant items to create patterns and images with... alone or in groups as part of a collaborative artwork for sensory experiences... this is a homemade light table where there are electric tealights (submersible ones) in the box underneath the slime box... the light adds yet another sensory experience to the slime session.... link to slime post... think out of the box when it comes to materials for the light table... and start collecting all sorts of things... and dare to ask for left over supplies... here I asked StikkiNikki ice-cream (in Stockholm yumyum for organic homemade ice-cream) if I could have the spoons that people were throwing away... she was very happy for the plastic spoons to be upcycled... (took some time to wash them all though... and they come in useful for glue spreading and other crafts and play) dare to rethink how the lighttable is positioned in your setting... at Boulder Journey School there were lots of light tables and some, as you see were on their side against the wall to add a different opportunity for light exploration... (check my posts from Boulder Journey School for more inspiration for indoor and outdoor play and learning - link to MY BOULDER EXPERIENCE 2013 - several posts to check out) creating small world play opportunities.... this photo show you how we celebrated International Fairy Tea Party last September... and at the moment we have it set up for Sleeping Beauty inspired small world play link to see our sleeping beauty inspired play on FB - there are plans to celebrate International Tea Party again this year... if you are interested keep a look out here on my blog or on the International Fairy Tea Party Facebook page paint on the light table... here I have wrapped the light table up in plastic and squirted paint on for the children to explore, and make a print... more information can be found... here, here and here more sensory on the light table... here I replaced the bottom of a tray with clear perspex so that we could experiment with salt, beans, coffee beans, beads, ice, cloud dough etc etc... a clear box is also perfect for this sort of play/exploration... I have in total 19 posts with a connection to the light table... of course the light table is not the only way to explore light... but it is the topic of this post... if you want to have access to all my posts on the light table... click here At "AND NEXT COMES L" you can see how maths and sorting can be done on the light table... the link to this activity is here - but it is worth exploring the whole blog for more light table inspiration - here is the link to Dyan's light table activities and inspiration LALYMOM reminds us how colour can be explored on the light table... either one colour at a time... or several colours... this is the link to an exploration of RED CRAFTULATE reminds of us the need to think outside our comfort zone when it comes to the light table... jelly/jello is maybe not the first thing that would spring to mind when it comes to the light table... check here for more details... here in Sweden it is cheapest to get gelatine and colour and add scent to it if desiring a smell sensory experience too (which I recommend as the sense of smell is strongly connected with memory making) WHERE IMAGINATION GROWS - exploring nature on the light table... either directly on the light table... or by making your own nature slides as suggested here. There are lots of other suggestions for light table use here too (as well as lots of other inspiration)... so don't hurry off the blog... STILL PLAYING SCHOOL reminds me that the light box is more than just a place for the visual experience - but that all the senses can be used here... sound being the experiment of this post. Of course experimenting with sound does not mean you have to compromise on the visual quality and beauty of the experience, as you can see... Take the time to explore this blog as there is lots of inspiration and of course no post about light tables would be complete without a link to the ultimate light table guide at CAUTION TWINS AT PLAY (not my twins this time though!!) - Here you can lose yourself in the many inspirations, and wonder when you will manage to find the time to try them all out!! REALLY, when it comes to the light table just let your imagination flow... all areas of the curriculum can be explored here... as I am sure you will discover as you explore the above blogs... Just have fun and click on all of the links... you won't regret it...
Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project.
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Gel baggies on a light table to demonstrate colour mixing.
Explore the changing colors of fall with a light table! Before school began this year, I finally decided it was time to invest in a new light table. I wanted a table that could stand alone, be large enough for several children to work on at one time, and have good lighting that worked well even
Easy DIY nature slides for the light table! A simple learning activity for toddlers and preschoolers that focuses on nature play and backyard learning!
