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- Patria Lincoln Posted On May 20, 2020 | Printables
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Fine Motor Fun Scavenger Hunt
- Patria Lincoln Posted On May 20, 2020 | Motor Skills
Fine Motor Scavenger Hunt
There is one tool always on you: your hands! Let’s see what your kids can find that requires them to move their hands. Scavenger hunts are a great way for kids to practice problem solving and learn the value of teamwork. This hunt is great for fine motor development and building recognition of what requires hand coordination. Don’t forget this is just for fun and it’s ok if you can’t find everything!
Fine Motor Fun Scavenger Hunt
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Fine Motor Scavenger Hunt
There is one tool always on you: your hands! Let’s see what your kids can find that requires them to move their hands. Scavenger hunts are a great way for kids to practice problem solving and learn the value of teamwork. This hunt is great for fine motor development and building recognition of what requires hand coordination. Don’t forget this is just for fun and it’s ok if you can’t find everything!
Indoor Math Recognition Scavenger Hunt
- Patria Lincoln Posted On May 20, 2020 | Printables
Scavenger hunts are a great way for kids to practice problem-solving and learn the value of teamwork.
Indoor Math Recognition Scavenger Hunt
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Scavenger hunts are a great way for kids to practice problem-solving and learn the value of teamwork.
Indoor and Outdoor Alphabet Scavenger Hunt
- Patria Lincoln Posted On May 20, 2020 | Printables
Motor Milestones and Toys to Stimulate Development
- Patria Lincoln Posted On May 11, 2020 | Motor Skills
DIY Edible Soil Layers!
- Patria Lincoln Posted On Apr 23, 2020 | STEM
Move & Learn: DIY STEM Forts!
- Patria Lincoln Posted On Mar 26, 2020 | STEM
Even when you're learning at home, you still need recess! That's why we're coming up with lots of activities that get kids moving and learning at the same time. Today's activity adds some extra STEM fun to the classic art of fort-building.
Gather Materials
Everyone's house is filled with different stuff, so everyone's STEM Forts will look a little different. As you gather your fort-building materials, ask your kids what they think each item might be used for in the building process. Your final item lists may vary, but we recommend some or all of the following: couch cushions and pillows, bed sheets, twine or laundry line, small furniture items (chairs, coffee tables, ottomans), poles (yardsticks, mops, brooms).
Get Creative
Once you have your materials, it's time to start daydreaming about what kinds of forts you're going to build. This is a great opportunity to encourage your kids to stretch their imaginations. Ask them about their vision for the fort; are they building a moon base, or a castle, or a superhero hideout? What kinds of pretend features or creatures might the fort contain?Build STEM Skills
Building any kind of fort helps your kids strengthen their early engineering and design skills, but you can add even more learning to the fort-building with the following challenges:Shape Forts: Can you build a fort in the shape of a square, or a rectangle, or a triangle? What about a circle? How does the process change for each shape?Tallest/Longest Fort: How high can you make your fort before it topples over? How long can it get before the walls start to sag? What reinforcements can you make to keep your fort standing?
Multi-Room Forts: If you've mastered the single-room fort, can you design a fort with a second or third room? What will you use for the passages?
Simplest Fort: Who can build a fort with the smallest amount of materials? How does the process get harder or easier with fewer pieces?
Fort Race: Have builders take turns selecting from materials they want to build with. Once all the materials are selected, have a race to see who can build their fort the fastest. Our Digital Timer is the perfect tool to help keep track of race times!
At Learning Resources, we’re here to help you make the best of this challenging time. Stay safe and healthy, and check back with our blog for more tips and learning ideas as the situation unfolds.
Move & Learn: DIY STEM Forts!
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Even when you're learning at home, you still need recess! That's why we're coming up with lots of activities that get kids moving and learning at the same time. Today's activity adds some extra STEM fun to the classic art of fort-building.
Gather Materials
Everyone's house is filled with different stuff, so everyone's STEM Forts will look a little different. As you gather your fort-building materials, ask your kids what they think each item might be used for in the building process. Your final item lists may vary, but we recommend some or all of the following: couch cushions and pillows, bed sheets, twine or laundry line, small furniture items (chairs, coffee tables, ottomans), poles (yardsticks, mops, brooms).
Get Creative
Once you have your materials, it's time to start daydreaming about what kinds of forts you're going to build. This is a great opportunity to encourage your kids to stretch their imaginations. Ask them about their vision for the fort; are they building a moon base, or a castle, or a superhero hideout? What kinds of pretend features or creatures might the fort contain?Build STEM Skills
Building any kind of fort helps your kids strengthen their early engineering and design skills, but you can add even more learning to the fort-building with the following challenges:Shape Forts: Can you build a fort in the shape of a square, or a rectangle, or a triangle? What about a circle? How does the process change for each shape?Tallest/Longest Fort: How high can you make your fort before it topples over? How long can it get before the walls start to sag? What reinforcements can you make to keep your fort standing?
Multi-Room Forts: If you've mastered the single-room fort, can you design a fort with a second or third room? What will you use for the passages?
Simplest Fort: Who can build a fort with the smallest amount of materials? How does the process get harder or easier with fewer pieces?
Fort Race: Have builders take turns selecting from materials they want to build with. Once all the materials are selected, have a race to see who can build their fort the fastest. Our Digital Timer is the perfect tool to help keep track of race times!
At Learning Resources, we’re here to help you make the best of this challenging time. Stay safe and healthy, and check back with our blog for more tips and learning ideas as the situation unfolds.
Indoor Camping Adventure!
- Patria Lincoln Posted On Mar 26, 2020 | STEM
Time to bring outdoor fun indoors during this springtime sequester. Make the best of it by planning a family camping adventure inside with the three “F’s” of fun: forts, flashlights, and food. With no bugs and access to running water, sounds like a perfect combination for some memorable family time!
Below are ideas to plan your overnight, indoor excursion – complete with a delicious S’mores recipe!
FORT
If your family is already campers, you can always pop your outdoor tent inside. Fill it up with sleeping bags and you’ve got a home away from home…inside your home.
No tent? No problem! Build your own fort. Have the kiddos grab these supplies for creative, engineering fun:
- Folding or kitchen chairs
- Blankets
- Sheets
- Pillows
- Books (for weight) or clips
- Twinkle lights
Set up chairs about 4-5 feet a part, backs of chairs facing each other. Throw blankets down on the “floor”. Make it as fluffy and comfortable as possible. Drape a sheet over the chairs as a roof. Secure the ends of the blanket wit heavy books or clips. String up twinkle lights as your stars, or grab your Primary Science® Shining Stars Projector to shine the heavens on the walls of your fort.
FLASHLIGHTS
Turn of the lights and let the fun begin. Have the kids grab their flashlights or lanterns and host a shadow puppet show or flashlight scavenger hunt. Shine the lights across each other and play flashlight limbo (the light beams serve as a pole). And if space allows, play everyone’s favorite nighttime summer game: flashlight tag!
Grab the Pretend & Play® Camp Set - complete with battery-operated lantern – creates the perfect glow for all your indoor camping needs.
FOOD
Plan for an indoor picnic during your campout. (Bonus! No chance of rain!) Have the children help you pack it all in an actual basket! Or maybe you can fire up the grill outside for some real campsite food. Either way, spread out a blanket by your tent and make it special.
Since no campsite is complete without this mainstay, here’s a S’mores Dip recipe, minus the fire!
Ingredients:
- A skillet
- ½ tablespoon of butter
- 1 ½ cups of chocolate chips, or 5 chocolate bars diced up
- 15 jumbo marshmallows cut in half, or a quarter of a bag of mini-marshmallows
- Graham cracker squares
(Little ones can help prep this delicious treat, but be sure all handling of the skillet and oven are done by a grown-up).
Place the dry skillet in the oven and turn on to 450 degrees. In the meantime, chop your chocolate (if using actual bars) and measure out your marshmallows.
Once the oven has reached the desired temperature, take out the hot skillet with an oven mitt. Again, keep little hands away from this part! The skillet will be extremely hot.
Throw your pad of butter in the skillet and swirl it around.
Pour in your chocolate, and top with your marshmallows. If you are using jumbo marshmallows, you can place in a uniform pattern around the skillet to ensure every inch is covered, just sure to steer clear of the hot pan.
Place in the oven for five to seven minutes. Break up your graham crackers into “dippable” serving pieces.
Remove dip from the oven and let the skillet sit on the counter for a good 10-15 minutes. Because your skillet is your serving dish, you’ll want it to cool off. Enjoy!
After everyone is fed, takes turns playing cards like Go Fish, or an old-fashioned game like Charades or Telephone. And just because there isn’t a campfire doesn’t mean there can’t be stories. Bring out your favorite books to read by flashlight or lantern.
The idea is just to be together…and make some fond memories during this unique time!
Happy Camping!
Indoor Camping Adventure!
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Time to bring outdoor fun indoors during this springtime sequester. Make the best of it by planning a family camping adventure inside with the three “F’s” of fun: forts, flashlights, and food. With no bugs and access to running water, sounds like a perfect combination for some memorable family time!
Below are ideas to plan your overnight, indoor excursion – complete with a delicious S’mores recipe!
FORT
If your family is already campers, you can always pop your outdoor tent inside. Fill it up with sleeping bags and you’ve got a home away from home…inside your home.
No tent? No problem! Build your own fort. Have the kiddos grab these supplies for creative, engineering fun:
- Folding or kitchen chairs
- Blankets
- Sheets
- Pillows
- Books (for weight) or clips
- Twinkle lights
Set up chairs about 4-5 feet a part, backs of chairs facing each other. Throw blankets down on the “floor”. Make it as fluffy and comfortable as possible. Drape a sheet over the chairs as a roof. Secure the ends of the blanket wit heavy books or clips. String up twinkle lights as your stars, or grab your Primary Science® Shining Stars Projector to shine the heavens on the walls of your fort.
FLASHLIGHTS
Turn of the lights and let the fun begin. Have the kids grab their flashlights or lanterns and host a shadow puppet show or flashlight scavenger hunt. Shine the lights across each other and play flashlight limbo (the light beams serve as a pole). And if space allows, play everyone’s favorite nighttime summer game: flashlight tag!
Grab the Pretend & Play® Camp Set - complete with battery-operated lantern – creates the perfect glow for all your indoor camping needs.
FOOD
Plan for an indoor picnic during your campout. (Bonus! No chance of rain!) Have the children help you pack it all in an actual basket! Or maybe you can fire up the grill outside for some real campsite food. Either way, spread out a blanket by your tent and make it special.
Since no campsite is complete without this mainstay, here’s a S’mores Dip recipe, minus the fire!
Ingredients:
- A skillet
- ½ tablespoon of butter
- 1 ½ cups of chocolate chips, or 5 chocolate bars diced up
- 15 jumbo marshmallows cut in half, or a quarter of a bag of mini-marshmallows
- Graham cracker squares
(Little ones can help prep this delicious treat, but be sure all handling of the skillet and oven are done by a grown-up).
Place the dry skillet in the oven and turn on to 450 degrees. In the meantime, chop your chocolate (if using actual bars) and measure out your marshmallows.
Once the oven has reached the desired temperature, take out the hot skillet with an oven mitt. Again, keep little hands away from this part! The skillet will be extremely hot.
Throw your pad of butter in the skillet and swirl it around.
Pour in your chocolate, and top with your marshmallows. If you are using jumbo marshmallows, you can place in a uniform pattern around the skillet to ensure every inch is covered, just sure to steer clear of the hot pan.
Place in the oven for five to seven minutes. Break up your graham crackers into “dippable” serving pieces.
Remove dip from the oven and let the skillet sit on the counter for a good 10-15 minutes. Because your skillet is your serving dish, you’ll want it to cool off. Enjoy!
After everyone is fed, takes turns playing cards like Go Fish, or an old-fashioned game like Charades or Telephone. And just because there isn’t a campfire doesn’t mean there can’t be stories. Bring out your favorite books to read by flashlight or lantern.
The idea is just to be together…and make some fond memories during this unique time!
Happy Camping!
Move & Learn: Alphabet Hopscotch!
- Patria Lincoln Posted On Mar 25, 2020 | Reading
Spring is here, which means plenty of chances to move and learn outside! As you stay safe and smart with your at-home learning plans, we've got a few ideas for incorporating outside exercise and play into your routines. Today's activity: Alphabet Hopscotch!
- On your driveway or patio, draw a hopscotch course with 26 squares using sidewalk chalk. The exact layout is up to you - get creative!
- Have your kids fill in each square of the hopscotch course with the different letters of the alphabet. For some extra fun, have them draw a picture of an object that starts with that letter, too!
- Once the hopscotch course is complete, begin by calling out letters and having your kids hop to the corresponding squares. Have them hop in order as you sing the Alphabet Song, then call out letters at random!
- For more advanced fun, have your kids spell out simple words by hopping from letter to letter on the hopscotch course. Start with three-letter words, then gradually work your way up. For a challenge, have your kids try to spell the longest words they know!
At Learning Resources, we're here to help you make the best of this challenging time. Stay safe and healthy, and check back with our blog for more tips and learning ideas as the situation unfolds.
Move & Learn: Alphabet Hopscotch!
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Spring is here, which means plenty of chances to move and learn outside! As you stay safe and smart with your at-home learning plans, we've got a few ideas for incorporating outside exercise and play into your routines. Today's activity: Alphabet Hopscotch!
- On your driveway or patio, draw a hopscotch course with 26 squares using sidewalk chalk. The exact layout is up to you - get creative!
- Have your kids fill in each square of the hopscotch course with the different letters of the alphabet. For some extra fun, have them draw a picture of an object that starts with that letter, too!
- Once the hopscotch course is complete, begin by calling out letters and having your kids hop to the corresponding squares. Have them hop in order as you sing the Alphabet Song, then call out letters at random!
- For more advanced fun, have your kids spell out simple words by hopping from letter to letter on the hopscotch course. Start with three-letter words, then gradually work your way up. For a challenge, have your kids try to spell the longest words they know!
At Learning Resources, we're here to help you make the best of this challenging time. Stay safe and healthy, and check back with our blog for more tips and learning ideas as the situation unfolds.
