Mostly Egg Trays

Leap Frog Human Body glow-in-the-dark skeleton stickers. Bobo is interested in bones. They can be dinosaur bones, fossils and especially skeletons.

Jack and the Beanstalk and the goose who laid the golden egg activity. We found this kit at Big Lots!

Magnetic eggs. I put the magnet balls inside the eggs and used the wands from our kit. You can twirl the wand above the eggs and they will spin around. We also took these in the bath for a floating experiment. When the magnets were in the eggs, they floated. They sunk by themselves. Bobo also discovered the wand stuck to the bath tub.

Matching sounds with kitchen items. First, Bobo identified the items in the egg container: rice, lentils, M&Ms, noodles, fruit snacks and coffee. Then, he shook the eggs to guess what is inside. Finally, he ate all the good things.

Shape identification. Daddy supervised this activity. Bobo needs to work on the names of shapes. When I came home from work, all the shapes were missing. Not sure what happened? Maybe we can identify them when we find them again.

Crayola Glowing activity. This tray was requested. We've used it several times before... There are a couple of different themes in the box.

Sharing with Montessori Monday.

Messy Learning Lab: Water and Glowing Fun

The slime I made for the Water and Glowing Messy Learning Lab was a failure. Yep, I think I let the solution sat in the Borax too long. It would stretch a little, then break apart.

It still had an interesting texture and looked beautiful mixed together. Oh, and it bounced!

I found some test tubes and goggles at Discount School Supply that are perfect for preschoolers. The water is tinted with food coloring, yellow, red and blue.

Little scientists work really hard.

In addition to water beads and baby water beads, I also set up watercolor painting on the "water" side of the room.

On the glow-in-the-dark side of the room, I made GID playdough. You add GID paint to any play dough recipe. I didn't like the texture of the play dough after adding the paint, though. It was really sticky. Maybe I should use less paint?

A local furniture store donated a large box for me to poke holes in and stick lots of glow sticks all over.

I expected the glow sticks to wind up in little hands and was not disappointed. At one point, they spanned the length of the room!

The glowing sensory box had hedgeballs, beads, stars, rocks, glow sticks and rattles.

As all the glowing materials need time to charge, I left the lights on in the room for several hours before opening the doors. I also left mini-flashlights at the door for the children to use while in the room.

I set up a black light station with items I had on hand that would glow.

The yellow highlighters worked best on the coloring mat. The white farm animal puppets also worked great under the black light. I have an inexpensive point and shoot camera, so it was difficult to get good pictures in the dark (what with the constant movement).

Not pictured is the glow-in-the-dark silly putty, which turned out to be a favorite with the parents. It's great to play with on hard wood floors and easy to pick up. And that wraps up the water and glowing fun!

Sharing with Tuesday Tots and For the Kid's Fridays.

Tot Trays: Glowing Outer Space

We are exploring Outer Space this month. We started a week early to prepare for our field trip to the Children's Museum. I've been stocking up on anything spacey or glow-in-the-dark to use for this theme. I didn't find much at the dollar store for the first time. I had better luck at Meijer and Hobby Lobby.

I found Glow-in-the-Dark spitballs at Hobby Lobby. They come dehydrated and look suspiciously like blue water beads. When I hydrate them, they turn clear and are water beads. They glow blue in the dark. The melon scooper is the perfect size for water beads. The large end will fit two, while the little end fits one at a time.

I guess I didn't completely strike out at the dollar store, because the star glass containers and glass beads come from there. This activity is using tongs to scoop Kryptonite into the "safe" star.

Mix and match space stickers. These are so fun. You can make aliens, robots, rockets and astronauts.

Ben-10 counting and matching. 

Meteor wiffle balls.

Crayola Glow Explosion Glow Magic.

Bobo put the spinner together himself using a screwdriver. The planets, comet and spaceship really glow!