Volcano Fun

                        V is for Volcano

Well I have been trying to tie a craft into learning the site of the Alphabet and my son is HOOKED on doing the baking soda and vinegar. I think we go thru at least 4 small things of baking soda a week and always have a gallon of vinegar on hand.

Mr. Science is his new name always wanting to mix something up, must be the boy in him. But the funny thing is he doesn't like to get his hands messy unless it is cooking related and sometimes not even then.

So here is our home made Volcano:

Materials:
paper mache....bought from Micheal's, was a mix that you just add water
small tray
small cup

Baking soda
Vinegar

paint if you want to paint it.....we didn't

How to do:
Mix paper mache like it tells you. Then I just put the small cup in the center of the tray and formed the Volcano.
My son added the rocks and cut pieces off the bushes outside.
Then let it sit in the sun for 1-2 days til dry. Ours was alittle damp at the bottom but my son kept talking about doing the Volcano so I gave in.....3 yr old

Then to make Volcano erupt you need baking soda, vinegar and we added red food coloring for the lava.

Mixing the paper mache and warm water together.

Forming the Volcano

As you can see momma is doing the messy work

Ok I will help but with the spoon.....not touching that mess

Adding the rocks

Adding the trees



Eruption Time

Adding the baking soda

Vinegar in the syringe

Look at that face....every time!! His favorite part

Rainbow Volcano Play

My son loves the volcano with baking soda and vinegar, so today I thought lets do rainbow bubbling since we did the rainbow painting with milk. He loved it, we even had a friend come over for playdate and took this out again. Have to say simple but was a hit.

Materials:
Tray
Baking soda
Vinegar
Syringe or anything to pour vinegar over baking soda( I use the syringe to work fine motor skills)

Cheap entertainment and hours of fun!!!

Was really cool to he mixed the colors and said "Mommy look blue and yellow made green"

Sucking up the vinegar in the sryinge

Mixing the baking soda with the chop stick

Bubbles

More bubbles and pretty colors

 

 

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Milk painting

             Fun with milk and food coloring

Well the weather was so nice today thought we would paint outside. So we went out on the deck and enjoyed the fresh air. Never thought this would be a BIG hit, but my 3yr old loves this. When he added the drops of food coloring and then mixed with the chopstick he said " Mommy look I made a pretty rainbow" was too cute.

Materials:
Milk.....everyone has that in their house
Food coloring
I used throw away tins from Dollar Tree.....2 for $1.00, could use a bowl or even a tray.

As you can see he likes this.

He was so into it.

 

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Crystal Egg Science craft

Make your own crystal egg science. Kids will think it is neat and looks so pretty hanging in the window.

Materials:
pipe cleaners
boiling water (fill up your jar)
glass mason jar
yarn
borax laundry soap
pencil

How to do it:

Form your pipe clean to whatever shape you would like. Then tie some yarn around the top, hanging it from a pen or pencil. Heat 3 cups water up in the microwave pour into mason jar, then add 1 cup of borax laundry soap in the boiling water, stir for couple minutes. After it is dissolved place the pipe clean design into the water mixture. Let it sit for 3-4 hours or over night. Once it has sat the crystals will form.

This is great for kids to work their fine motor skills using the pipe cleaners to make shapes.

75 things for kids Easter baskets

Themed Egg Hunts

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Making words with paint samples

I made a matching game with the paint samples and my preschooler wanted to help. Didn't think he would get into it as much as he did. So we went back to Home Depot and got more samples to make words.

Great for them to do so we started with his name. He put the stickers on the samples, then placed them on the clear laminate and cut them out. This is a GREAT fine motor skill for the kids.

Materials:
Paint samples
Stickers
Clear laminate



Putting the letter stickers on the paint samples

Look my name

Cutting them out of the laminate

Make your own Alphabet matching game

                       ABC learning game

My preschooler is all into playing games. When we were in Home Depot the other day I picked up the Mickey Mouse shaped paint samples and we turned it into a game.

Picked up 52 of them you need at least 2 colors of each, I used a couple of the colors twice. Then I use the ABC stickers I have on hand from scrap booking. I also laminated mine so they will last longer. You can use clear laminate.

Materials:
Paint samples
Alphabet stickers
Clear laminate

J helping cut the cards out of the laminate

Matching game all ready to play.....then when the kids get older can be a memory game

We love learning though play so be sure to check back to see what we are up to.

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Marble Alphabet painting

Marble painting....this was pretty cool

Materials needed:

Marbles

Pan/plastic container

paper

paint

I used my cricut machine and cut out the letter "B"

Putting the paint on the paper

Adding more paint

Shaking the marbles in the pan

Marble roll.....can tell by J's face it was pretty cool

Finished look

Foam Alphabet painting

               Movin and painting alphabets

Today I took out the finger paints and foam letters....boy did the kiddos have fun. I scored some crayola finger paints at the thrift store not used for $2.90 set of 4. Love when I get a deal!!! Foam letters I picked up from the Dollar Tree. Great learning project and busy time for the kids.

This project is fun to do and hang up for wall decor as well. Neat to see what the kids come up with.

Materials:
Foam letter...Dollar Tree
Crayola Paints....craft store, Wal-mart (I used this brand cause I know it washes out of clothes)
Big roll of paper....Ikea



 

If you are looking for different ways to work with letter be sure to check out the other fun we have done. DIY...alphabet puzzle matching and 10 fun alphabet activities

 

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Sensory Play with Cloud dough

Today we had some nice Spring weather so I took the sensory table out. We put flour and baby oil in it and mixed it together making Cloud dough. The kids had a blast. We also had some friends over for a play date, they played for hours.

Materials:
Flour
Baby oil
Measuring cup
Add your fun toys to play kitchen

I mixed 8-9 cups of flour and 2 cups of oil, but you can mix as muh together as you want. It's a neat feel alittle like pizza dough just not as wet feeling, has a more dry feel. I have to say the baby oil made the flour smell good to.

Putting the flour in the bucket

More flour

Measuring a cup of baby oil

Mixing it all together

Baking a cake

Having a blast

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

                  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

We have been doing fun things to learn our alphabet's by site and my son loves the boom Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, so today we made a tree like the book.

Materials:
Paper towel roll
Alphabet stickers...used my old scrapbooking ones
beans...use as rocks
Paint used brown
shredded paper....had left over from Easter
Mod Podge or glue

Peel and match the letters

 

Look I matched them all

Adding the glue to stick the tree in the beans

Had him use tweezers to pick the beans up to work on Fine Motor skills

Glue for the top of the tree



Adding the leaves


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