- Air – vinegar & baking soda (gas) blowing up a balloon
- Water – drop a variety of items in water and see what happens, do they sink or float?
- Earth – Go on a nature hike and identify non-living things, living things and signs of life
- Plants – Make plant rubbings (leaves are great)
- Bugs – Paint a symmetry butterfly picture. Fold paper in half paint one half of the butterfly and fold over while the paint is wet to make a mirror image butterfly
- Birds – Feed ducks at a local pond
- Animals – Sound charades. What sounds do these animals make?
- Body – Use butcher paper and trace your body. Cut your body parts off (make a head, torso, leg, etc.) and reattach with paper fasteners. Now you have a body puppet.
- Touch – Finger paint “ explore with textures in different colors of paint (glitter, oatmeal, cornstarch, salt, spices, shaving cream, glue, etc.).
- Taste – Make a food sculpture out of leftovers and then eat it.
- Sound – Bang a pot to teach rhythm with a favorite song
- Sight – Create spinning tops with a variety of primary colors. What happens when the two colors mix? What happens if there are lots of colors on the top?
- Shapes – Make shaped buttons out of clay and small cookie cutters
- Architecture – Try balancing a penny on a page of paper. Is it easier if the paper is bended like a fan? Like a book? Cut into strips? Woven?
- Time/History – Make a timeline of your average day
- Counting/matching – Play Uno “ this game matches the color and the number
- Physics – Find a hill and roll down it. Roll other objects down the hill. What things roll better than others?
- Geometry – Try and fold laundry items into all circle shapes. How can you a shirt or a towel flat and in a circle? Triangle? Rectangle?
- Geography – Play hide and seek with an item. Kids have to give directions on how to find the item.
Themes for the upcoming year, with a sample activity to give you an idea of what we’ll be doing – I hope to have 4-6 activities a week:
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