Category: 3.5-4 Years
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How to Make Colored Rice
Yesterday it was sooo hot I had to plan activities to do inside. Colored rice… it’s a neat sensory tub activity and the coloring process can be just as fun. I have some other things in mind for the rest of the week to do with this rice. Colored Rice Ziploc bag of rice (a…
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Name and letter recognition practice
Here’s an activity for practicing all kinds of skills. This has fine motor, cutting, writing, letter recognition skill all packed into one activity. The original has the letters to his name on the bottom of the paper. He cut the letters out and then we worked together to spell out and find the letters and…
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Fizzy Sidewalk Paint
Yesterday was a high of 105. So anything we were going to do outside HAD to be done before like 6am, since it was already 85 degrees by then. We didn’t make it out by 6, but pretty early in the morning. Quite a while ago {before blogging days} I had made some sidewalk paint…
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DIY Cardboard Ball Game
When we moved into the “new house” (Landon still calls it this) we had to buy a new refrigerator. Luckily Brad programms for Build.com and we get massive discounts on stuff… like refrigerators! When it was delivered one of the doors had a dent in it so a new one was shipped. The result was a box…
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Shape coloring (Free Printable!)
Today Landon and I were working on another page for his ABC Book. When we were done he wanted to just color and draw, that turned into cutting out the shapes we were drawing, then when I was coloring I had one of the scraps of paper underneath the one I was coloring on and…
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Oobleck
Another really fun and messy (and cheep) activity is oobleck. This is literally as simple as corn starch and water but it has an amazing property of behaving like both a solid and a liquid. If you try to punch or poke quickly through it, it acts like a solid, but slowly slide your hand into…
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ABC Book (Free Printable!)
Today we started working on an ABC book that I created for my classroom way back. I think it’s funny that he’s working on the things I work with my kinders on at the beginning of the year. There’s a part of me that really don’t want him to work on any more Pre-K stuff…
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Train Craft
This was another spur of the moment activity that actually turned out pretty cute. Materials Train Outline Cardboard, Foamboard or other sturdy paper Cotton balls 1 empty toilet paper roll Markers Glue Take the outline of a train and using a pen poke holes along the lines to transfer it to the carboard, foamboard or…
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Extra large maraca
Landon loves music. He’ll turn anything into a drum, loves to listen to and participate in any music opportunities. He’s broken several drum sticks and about as many maracas that were turned into drum sticks. Materials Balloon (smaller sized) Dried beans Newspaper (or any scrap paper) White Glue Water We took several days to make…
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Flubber (or Oobleck or Gak…)
Landon is turning 3 next month! I can’t believe how fast time has gone by. He’s pretty much obsessed with Curious George (or Monkey George as he calls it) so we are going to have a Curious George Party. This is the first party where he’ll have friends and other kids that can play games…