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- Cut each tube into a variety of lengths
- Paint each tube with tempera paint (optional)
- Cover the tubes with clear packing tape (optional)
- Hot glue two magnets to one side of each tube
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Magnetic Marble Tubes
Posted in Homemade Recipes for Art Fun, Motor Skills, Sensory on February 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Heart and Hand Prints in a Salt Tray
Posted in Sensory, Valentine's Day on February 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Painting with Cars!
Posted in Homemade Recipes for Art Fun, Sensory on January 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Candy Cane Sensory Tubes!
Posted in Christmas, Science, Sensory on December 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
These are the neatest sensory tubes just in time for the holidays! Teach Preschool blogs about them. Here are some great items to fill the empty tubes with:
- Baby oil and a small amount of colored water
- Tiny, colorful holiday trinkets and beads
- Water, glitter, and small amount of Glycerine
Rainbow Rice Sensory Play
Posted in Homemade Recipes for Art Fun, Motor Skills, Sensory on October 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Rainbow rice. Like sand but less messy. Geniusly fun! From: http://shareandremember.blogspot.com/2011/06/rainbow-rice-garden-sensory-play.html
Science Center: Butterflies
Posted in Sensory, Spring on May 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Youngsters will love the “pasta-bilities” of creating this model of the butterfly life cycle. Discuss with your students the stages of metamorphosis from a caterpillar to a butterfly. If desired, display books or pictures of the butterfly life cycle. Stock your center with a class supply of 2” x 8” tagboard strips and the following pasta types in various colors: orzo, spirals, shells, and bow ties. You may want to program each strip with the words “egg,” “caterpillar,” “chrysalis,” and “butterfly.” Invite each child to glue pasta onto his strip (and draw on details) to create the butterfly life cycle as shown.
Color Matching: Shades of Green
Posted in Motor Skills, Sensory, St. Patrick's Day on March 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
With the help of paint chips, your little ones are sure to become experts at matching shades of green. Gather several pairs of paint chips in shades of green. Cut the strips apart into individual shades and place the resulting cards in a decorative bag. Encourage students to remove the cards from the bag and match the shades of green. Here are two cards that are sea foam green—it’s a match!
Textured Polar Bears (Sensory Center)
Posted in Poems/Songs/Chants, Sensory on December 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
To prepare, mix equal parts shaving cream and white glue; then add pieces of torn white facial tissue and cotton batting to the mixture. A youngster fingerpaints a paper plate with a thick layer of the mixture, noticing the texture as he paints. When he is finished, he glues two white semicircles (ears), a black circle (nose), and two jumbo wiggle eyes to the project.
Action rhyme:
A polar bear is big and white. (Stretch arms upward.)
To all the seals he is a fright! (Make scary face.)
He likes to swim in chilly seas (Make paddling motions.)
Without a sniffle, cough, or sneeze! (Tap nose.)
His furry paws won’t slip on ice. (Walk like a bear.)
To be that bear would sure be nice! (Shake finger.)
The Eastwood Aviary 