10 Ideas for Preschool Fun with Water Beads
Just before the school year ended I learned about the wonderful world of water beads. My principal and our school’s Speech/Language Pathologists showed me their sensory bin full of these cool and soothing little beads of water. I will not be able to properly describe to you how these water beads feel other than...
Ice Cream Parlor Dramatic Play Center
My preschool classroom has a “Dramatic Play” corner where children can use their imaginations to pretend they are playing or working in different jobs, homes or scenarios. While our class was learning about the Five Senses I thought it would be fun to put together an Ice Cream Parlor Dramatic Play Center. It only took a...
Rainbow Pasta Arts & Crafts
Making Rainbow Pasta is super easy to do, and can provide hours and hours of fun for kids of all ages. You can use Rainbow Pasta to create art work, string necklaces, and make patterns. I colored a bunch of noodles for my classroom recently and the kids had so much fun doing all kinds...
Creating a Mural with Children
When we went to IKEA yesterday we bought a big roll of paper (under $5!). Ella wanted to make a mural like Ramona and her father did in the book Ramona & her Father by Beverly Cleary. So we gathered our supplies…markers, crayons, and colored pencils. Once we had all of our supplies ready all...
