So our first days of summer were spent inside, away from the warmth and sun, sick as a dog. We finally start to feel like ourselves again and California does what it likes to do in the early days of summer~ June Gloom. Hello fog and chilly air. Goodbye summer beach days. Needless to say, I've been trying to cook up some indoor activities for the kids to do. This one was met with great success!
I wrote every letter of the alphabet onto squares of paper. If you have magnetic letters that would work great too. Lay them out where you have some room for your collections. Let your kids roam the house hunting for items that begin with each letter!
This is a great activity for kindergartners learning beginning sounds of words.
For older children, it's great to practice ending sounds of words or just to enjoy the thrill of a hunt!
TA-DA!
Wasn't so sure how the kids would get Q and X. I knew we didn't have a xylophone, but unbelievably, we actually had an x-ray!
We finally have a garden that is healthy and green! The kids and I noticed how huge the zucchini and squash leaves were getting and decided it would be fun to pull out the toy animals and play jungle!
This is a fun way to learn the difference between fruits and vegetables. Ezra guesses if the food has seeds or not. Then he tries to determine if the food is a fruit or vegetable depending on whether or not it has seeds! It's also a great way to get kiddos to explore healthy foods and eat them. Before this experiment Ezra wanted nothing to do with kiwis, but when we cut one in half today he tried it and has been gobbling them up all day!
Any person who's had the opportunity to participate in a science fair in elementary school is probably familiar with the baking soda and vinegar volcano. Today I introduced it to my son.
You'll need some clay to create the volcano. If you've really got some time and patience, papier mache works great too.
Ezra wanted to create a moat around the base of our volcano.
Besides the clay, you will also need a pan or cookie sheet for the magma flow, baking soda, and vinegar. The food coloring is optional.
Next, add a few spoonfuls of baking soda inside your volcano.
Here we added red food coloring to our volcano. Add this after your baking soda. Then pour on the vinegar!
Ezra wanted to try out different colors so he chose blue next. Each time we started a new eruption we had to add more baking soda and vinegar.
Since my video isn't working here's a volcano video from Mr. Wizard. He creates a volcano with fire and asbestos paper! See you!
Today's project is a homemade version of the fingerboard.
You'll need large popsicle sticks or cardboard, markers, small round beads, toothpicks, and craft glue (hot glue would work too). Start decorating your boards!
Glue on your axles (or trucks, lol). Ez wanted three.
Slide your beads on the ends of the toothpicks. Ours are sticking out quite a bit, so you can trim them down if you want.
