Funnel vision

Here is my take of the funnel system that was posted by Sand and Water Table blog. The kids already had fun swishing water thru it and the the tubes.

Tunnel Time

Sand and Water Table blog has given me much inspiration in the last few weeks. I love all of his hands on activities for the children and the use of 'recycled " materials.  I love all of his pictures and videos that he posts. So, that is where my inspiration has come from for the last few projects that I have created here.

I hang my clothes out on the line, and often the little ones like to hold my clothes and pull the clothes off the line for me so I am sure they will have fun hanging there own clothes up, too.

The tunnel is not all the way finished, but the kids liked playing with what I already got put together. They rolled marbles down the boxes and watched them come out the other end.

TA DA!!! Sand Table!!!!

Creative Works had this sand table and the instructions and it looked by far the easiest and sturdiest tables to make. Since I already had a 10 foot pvc pipe that was 1 1/4th I used that and got joints to fit it. I purchased all of my stuff from Lowe's. I, however, could not find the buckle straps that Creative Works used so I used a bungee cord, umm, the label is Carabiner Style Bungee Cord at 48". I think this will work to add support to the bottom. We will see. If I do come across the correct straps, I will replace them.

Ones and Twos Finger Painting

Okay, so here is what happened when we did our first activity from MaryAnn Kohl's First Art, Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos.  OMGoodness... It was soo cute. It was pretty messy and over a little quicker than I thought. I may move the two's into thier own little spot so they can spend more time and not be interrupted by the ones. Live and Learn.  Little D decided that he should pour the paint onto his paper than then paint, not just one color but all three. I tried to be a YES class but all I could think was "oh no, that's all the paint on his paper and the paper is not going to with stand all that wetness."  But it worked out in the end because the other two little ones decided to use his paint from his paper. LOL.

4th of July craft

Here we made a statue of  liberty picture. I inserted their faces after they colored the printout and then displayed it in our room.

Bubbles

You're never too old to play with bubbles, right? Look at her face, who can not but to be delighted with her? Not me. We cut a soda bottle in half and rubber banded a wet washcloth,that had dish soap on it,too. They blew out the front of the bottle which made cascading bubbles, or bubble worms, hehehe. I did have to watch the little ones closely because they wanted to suck in the bottle.. eww... but they were pretty fascinated by the bubbles coming out of the other bottles.

Mud Pies

Who doesn't like making mudpies? I love to get my hands dirty and I know that the kids loving doing it, too.

Tracing and Drawing in Salt



We are tracing and drawing in salt. It is a little different texture than sand and totally different than shaving cream. They we were very surprised when I said salt because salt is for the food. :)

Past Activities

I have been doing family home daycare for a couple of years now and I just wanted to show a few of the other activities we have done.

I encourage tearing and glueing even when we are so little that we have to sit in booster seats :)

What We Did Over the Summer

I usually have all ages of kiddos during the summer so I try to offer weekly "camps" They have come to LOVE and look forward to ooey gooey week. We did many activities that involved paint and water and bubbles. I loved the little painted feet prints across my outside patio. Here are a few pictures of the activities that we did.

Back to School

pillowcases we made for the ones heading off to Preschool

I am a home daycare provider who is aloways looking for crafty, fun, and messy ways to teach your children. I look forward to sharing our projects and ideas with you. I constantly browse the blogs for everyones ideas and hope to share thier ideas with your children. I love LOVE hands on activities and MESSIER the better. Well, that's my opinion.