Silicone ice cube trays offer up all manner of fine motor fun. They also offer up math skills such as one-to-one correspondence, color sor...

  The water is tinted with strawberry Kool-Aid, and yes, sometimes it gets transferred to the mouth...but once is enough, it's SO SOUR! 

 

Set up outside for discovery, one child decided they wanted to paint it, and then another, and then another, and so on, and so on. Last year...

Lemon verbena is a delightful plant. The leaves are very firm and substantial in texture, while the flowers are very delicate and white. The...

 

 

 A flower is a flower is a flower? Are all flowers the same? I often begin a flower study by asking the children to identify what I am showi...

  To color match, or not to color match, that is the question. The tiny little hair clips really work those pincer muscles. When we set this...

 

A parent made us this nifty batch of spice paints using Chalk paint as the base. We keep them in the fridge so they do not mold or spoil. Th...

 

 

  Somewhere on the internet someone shared a beautiful floral kaleidoscope and pondered "How can we make this?" We already had flo...

 

 

 First, the children all brought flowers into the classroom, then we used our senses to explore each one. We learned the words for the parts...

We took it outside! A lot of new teachers may ask, "What can I set up outside for the children?" The answer is "Pretty much a...