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GROSS MOTOR ACTIVITIES
I took our colorful sensory scarves and tied them to a broom. I set up two chairs and placed the broom between them. I called out a type of movement and he had to crawl through or under the scarves. By the look on his face you can tell he enjoyed it!
I crumbled up pieces of white paper and put them in a bowl. I placed another empty bowl about 10 feet away. He had to transfer the "snowballs" from one bowl to the other. When he was done we had a little toss.
Activity Source | Mama of Littles
I taped a piece of clear contact paper (sticky side out) on to our glass door. In a bowl about 10-15 feet away I had some weather shape cut outs. He had to choose a shape, name it and then run and add it to his sticky wall to make a stormy scene.
Activity Source | Buggy and Buddy
I used painters tape to stick a piece of white construction paper to his area. He first painted the paper with gray paint (mixed black and white paint together) and once it dried he added the raindrops and lightning bolts.
First, he colored each tree with a brown crayon. Next, we added dabs of white Elmer's glue to where we wanted the colored salt to go. Then, he used the salt container to sprinkle salt on to the paint. Last, he used a pipette to added colored water on top of the salt. As you can see we did this for all four seasons.
Super easy activity to set up! I put colored water into a dish and gave him some fine motor tools such as a pipette, eye dropper, syringe, etc. and told him to transfer the water from the dish into the ice cube tray. At one point, he tried to pick up the dish and just pour it into the tray, touche my boy!
In a bin I put a big pile of shaving cream and added blue food coloring to it to make it look like snow. I told him to gather his machines, it was time to get messy and play on this "snowy" day!
In a bin I added some water and blue food coloring. To make the "rain," I poked tiny holes into the bottom of a solo cup. He explored by making it rain on his trucks and then slowly we added in some people and animals to play in the rain.
Activity Source | No Time For Flash Cards
More shaving cream play, this time for an art project! I mixed together equal parts shaving cream and white Elmers glue in a bowl. He painted clouds on a piece of blue construction paper with a cotton ball inside of a clothespin. When he was done using that tool he decided to use his fingers.
Activity Source | Munchkins and Moms
This was similar to the rain sensory bin but this time he used a straw to make wind. We added people and animals for some pretend play.
THEMED SNACKS
Source | Mama.Papa.Bubba
We made a rainbow using fruit and crackers. We used strawberries, orange slices, banana, kiwi and purple grapes. He helped to cut the fruit and make the rainbow shape.
Source | Honeydew You Love Me?
I cut an apple in half, used a vegetable peeler to make stripes in the skin and then added a straw in the bottom. We added raisins for raindrops.
Source | ABC's of Jess's House
On Ritz crackers I added cream cheese. He added raisins for eyes and buttons and then a mini carrot for the nose.
Super simple and healthy snack! I added a dollop of hummus to a plate and he helped add mini carrots for the rays.
Source | Munchkins and Moms
This was a favorite when I was a child so I was excited to make it together with him. We used berry blue flavored Jell-O (for the sky) and followed the instructions on the box to make it. When it was ready, I added it to a glass and topped with some whipped cream (clouds).
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES & BOOKS
We sang the song, How's the Weather every morning and ran to the window to see what it was like outside. Then, he graphed it on his weather graph. To help him color the boxes, I first made a dark outline and helped him color it in.
Some of the books we read throughout the week. The weather series by Christopher Hernandez is great!
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