Exploring Science sensory bin with nature

I found silicone fall leaves and pumpkin cookware in Wal-Mart for $3.00 the other night and picked it up cause there was so much that came to my mind we could use it for.

Well the first thing we did with them was I made Fall colored ice for the kids to use on the sensory table cause they love ice play.

I added some nature things we picked up from our nature walk couple days ago to the bin and "J" went to town.

I gathered:
Corn starch
Baby Oil
Baking soda
Vinegar
Shaving cream

"J" had a blast mixing it all in and seeing what happens after an hour of exploring he took all the ingredients and said "mom, I am going to make fires." He is all into this imaginary play, loves the whole Fireman thing. That brought on another hour of play.

Didn't think that this nature sensory exploring would be so much fun, but "J" loved exploring to see what each ingredient did when mixing each one.

Vinegar and baking soda bubbling when mixing
Then baby oil made it just run right off the leaves
Mixing corn starch and oil it clumped up.

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Make your own Fall leaf magnets

I was in Wal-Mart the other looking at all the holiday stuff that is out and came across this silicone mold of leaves and pumpkins. It was $3.00 and so many things came to mind so I bought it.

The first fun thing we did with this was an ice sensory table. That was alot of fun.

Then I thought of this idea to make our own plaster of paris magnets. All you have to do is follow the direction on the box of the plaster paris then pour into the mold let it sit for several hours and they pop right out.

Let the kid paint them. These are great for party fun, gifts, or just to keep. Then I added a magnet on the back so we could place them on our refrigerator.

We got our plaster of paris at Wal-Mart for $4.97 and it was a big box.

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Nature man using paper plate

This week we will be working on the letter (Nn) is for Nature. Since we have a BIG storm (SANDY) coming our way and will have some days inside due to the rain.

We went on a Nature walk over the weekend and collected fun nature things to do something different each day with nature.


So today we made a leaf man.

Materials:
Nature stuff
Paper plate
Glue
Contact paper(don't have to use we just did to keep the leaves. from drying and getting crispy)

 

 

 

 

We will be doing Nature related stuff for the whole week so be sure to check back.

 

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Pumpkin person

We love to make crafts and momma loves all the fun keepsakes of the hand/foot prints to see how the kids grow each year.

So if you have been following you know we have been doing alot of fun crafts for Halloween with paper plates. If you haven't seen them be sure to check them out here.

Today we made Mr. Pumpkin. Painted the paper plate orange, put our foot prints on a white piece of paper and cut them out, then glued the face and feet onto the pumpkin plate.

You can add hand prints as well but we didn't this time.

Fun, easy and again inexpensive.

"J" was so cute laughing at his pumpkin, he said "mom, he has no arms." Laughing like crazy.

 

If you like to make paper plate crafts be sure to check out our fun Scented apple pie paper plate. Also, be sure to check back to see some more Fall ones we will be making.
 

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50+ fun and different themed sensory play

Sensory play is such a GREAT way for little ones to explore and learn about what is around them. So what better way for them to learn and explore then setting up a different themed sensory bin.

I know there are some parents out there that think this is too messy and too time consuming, but trust me if you have never done it please just do it one time and see the joy it will bring to your kid(s) face. Also, the hours of fun play!!

Below I listed some sensory bins we have done and other moms as well,  to get you started if your not sure how to go about setting one up.

We set our sensory bins up in our water table, a clear tub and also we got a cement mixing bin from Home Depot $5.00(we have got SO much use out of that, well worth the money).








Halloween sensory bin

Dinosaur sensory bin with volcano

Alphabet ice sensory play

Firework bubble sensory bin

Pirate sensory pool play

Bug digging sensory bin

Ice sensory bin

                    Below are some amazing mom blogger's sharing their fun Themed Sensory Play


Mama Miss shared several themed sensory bins with us, have to say this Sea Life sensory is one of my favorites.
Below are some more of her fun sensory bins be sure to check them out.

Spring time sensory
Dinosaur Digging sensory bin
Seek-n-Find Fall




I love this fun Fire Sensory bin that was used for Fire prevention. Thanks for sharing The Good Long Road

Make sure to check out her fun Bee sensory bin as well.



Here is a fun Bug sensory bin from Teaching Preschool
Love how she left the bugs out and let the kids add them.



These Messy sensory bins look like ALOT of fun you have to check out Dirt and Boogers
she has alot of fun making sensory bins for her little guy.
Below are several more that she put together.

Jello sensory
Frogs and rocks
Easter sensory bin great way to have Easter fun
Fun sensory box with a slide so fun
Red, White and Blue fun way to teach colors.

What a clever sensory bin for learning Bird nest sensory bin you have to check out the other fun
learning sensory bins over at Train Up a Child she has great ideas.
Below are the links to check them out.

Frog sensory bin I love the way this one turned out
Ocean wonders sensory bin another awesome one
Yellow sensory bin great way to teach colors.
Night and Day sensory bin another great way to teach

Here is a fun colorful Fruit loop sensory bin from Love, Play, Learn she has several more below, make sure you don't miss them.

Rainbow spaghetti sensory bin what a fun way to teach the rainbow
July 4th sensory bin very fun
Halloween witch brew sensory bin love this one so fun

How fun a Farm sensory bin what a great way to teach the little ones about animals
Living Life Intentionally has some great and fun learning sensory bins
Be sure to check them out below

Space sensory bin This is so cool...LOVE this
Bug sensory another fun one
Snow sensory bin using shaving cream.
Fall sensory bin

Now how creative is this cute Hedgehog sensory bin ,The Imagination Tree has ALOT of sensory bin ideas and really cool ones
I picked some of my favorites make sure you look at all of her sensory bins.

Waterbeads sea side sensory bin so colorful
Pretend baking sensory bin another bin I love
Christmas sensory tub
Flowers and Faries sesnory bin love all that she comes up with.

Snowy wonderland sensory bin fun and easy way to enjoy Winter.
I love that Royal Baloo keeps it simple, but yet you can tell her boys have ALOT of fun.
Below are some more fun sensory bins they have done.

Dinosaur Sensory bin
Fall and Halloween sensory bin I LOVE THIS MIX!!

I love this idea of a Tea and Coffee sensory bin
Creative Playhouse has some creative sensory bins love them all.
Click below to check out the other sensory bins she has done.

Small world of ocean sensory bin
Small world reptiles

3Dinosaurs did an AWESOME job on their Space sensory bin Below are some of the other fun sensory bin they have done.

Halloween sensory bin
Fall sensory bin
American Revolution sensory bin

Little blue truck sensory bin great idea to tie sensory bin in with a book.
See Vanessa Craft

Great way to learn numbers Counting sensory binConnecting Family and Seoul is a fun site make sure you check out the other fun
things she is doing with her little guy.

Chicken themed sensory bin

The Lorax sensory bin by In Lieu of Preschool
if you have not checked this blog out you should fun stuff.
Below is another one of her sensory bins

Pretend cooking



Also, thanks to all the Mama's for sharing their fun sensory bin. They are all AWESOME.
Make sure you check them all out so you don't miss anything.

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Pumpkin patch number/word learning bath

If you have been following you know we have been doing fun learning bath's, for the last several  weeks working on numbers and recognizing them.

Well last night I made a pumpkin patch bath and on the pumpkins I put the numbers on some and then the spelling of the numbers and dots on the the other so "J" could learn the recognize the spelling.

We sang our little song and changed it up alittle. I think that is his favorite part, he loves music.

Song we sang: (Tune is to Are you Sleeping?)
Picking pumpkins
Picking pumpkins
One by one
one by one
pick number (blank)
pick number (blank)
O what fun

The cute part was when he would find them "C" would take them and line them up on the other side of the tub and count.

Materials:
Foam pumpkins
Sharpie for writing
If you want to add the sign was in the Dollar section at Target.
Paint (also if you want to add the grass, used Crayola washable)







"J" was so happy when he matched the numbers on the 1st try.

 Make sure you check out the other fun bath learning we have done with numbers. Fall leaf counting, Ghost counting, and Apple number tree.

Be sure to check back cause I have alot more fun number and letter learning fun to come.


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"BOO" Ghost pizza

Since it is getting close to Halloween wanted to make something fun for the kiddo's and they love pizza, so for lunch today I had "J" help me make them "BOO" pizza's

All you need is sliced cheese, ghost cookie cutter, sauce and a bagel or english muffin.

Easy as 1,2,3

                                                  "J" was so proud of his ghost cut-out

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Halloween stamp art bath

"J" wanted to paint in the bath tonight so I threw together this Halloween bath. "J" and "C" had fun and it was very simple. Just placed Halloween colored paint on a tray with paint brushes and Halloween stamp art we had on hand. 

 

You can do it 2 ways let them paint on the walls(we used washable paints) or you can tape paper/post board on the wall and let them paint on that.

 

They had fun and at the end started putting stamp art all over them. Body Art.

 

 

I put little pumpkin confetti in the tub as well.

"C" loves to paint you can tell in the pictures.

"J" had lots of fun, think the best part was the body art.

If you like the fun baths be sure to check out our learning bath with Ghost counting.


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Pumpkin/Ghost play-doh party favors

If you have been following us you know we have done some fun things to get ready for the kid's Halloween party.

Today we made these easy and inexpensive paper favors.

Materials:
Orange play-doh (pumpkin)
White play-doh (ghost)
Plastic baby food containers
Sharpie to make the faces
Orange kool-aid packet if you want (add this to the orange play-doh)


This party favor is great if you have kids with peanut allergies or the parents don't like for them to have candy.

You can buy the play-doh at Wal-Mart or Toys-R-Us......not Wal-Mart is cheaper $.88

***Also you can get 3 party favors out of 2 things of play-doh by splitting it up****

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Learning number bath with Ghost and song

We did a Fall leaf counting tree  in the bath last week and "J" and "C" had so much fun they played with it all week long in the bath. It was so cute listening to "J" explain what number was what to her.

I think the part that really surprised me was "C" who just turned 2 picking up on the number recognition. Crazy she is counting to 10 and can tell you some of the numbers by sight.

So I put together another fun number bath. Found the ghost, trees and sign all in the Dollar section at Target. So this cost me $3.00 cause the trees we used for the Fall bath and I just colored them black with a sharpie.


Song we sang: (Tune is to Are you Sleeping?)
Catching Ghost
catching ghost
One by one
one by one
Grab number (blank)
grab number (blank)
And run, run, run


Again from the pictures you can see they had a blast.

They love this!!

Loved how "C" was trying to do what BIG brother was doing.

 Above after "J" found all the numbers we lined them up and placed them in order.

The "J" sat on the ghost and said, "they are hiding" 2nd picture took them all and said "BOO".


 

If you like the learning baths, make sure to check back soon. Have several more to come, my little one's love this.

Note you can also do this with felt and project board to make a fun activity center or use for circle time in a preschool/school.
Here is one we did on a project board. Apple tree learning

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Fun games for Kids Halloween party

Whether you are having a party, church function, or school festival. Below are 5 fun games that are fun and easy to play. Also, very inexpensive to make and put together.

Monster Dice

Click the link below to see how to make this fun candy jar.
Candy Jar




I saw this on Pinterest and that this was just the cutest game ever and had to share.
Click the link below to find out how to make.
Witch Toss

Thanks Sometimes Creative for letting us share your great witch toss game.

Click the link below to see how to make
Water squirt Halloween game 







I love how this fun and easy game was created by It's Written on the Walls
Click below to find out how to make this fun game.
Boo Bowling

Thanks It's Written on the Walls for letting us share your fun bowling game.

Pumpkin Toss Game

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