When I made the move up in grades from PreK to First grade, I was a little taken aback that blocks would not be an item that was provided by the district I worked for at the time. I cannot use the word shocked as that would be exaggerating, but I was definitely...
If you should ask me – What do you remember about your childhood? – I would answer: playing outdoors. I remember, like yesterday, creating a little hide-out under a group of tall bushes. I would spend hours with my friends gathering twigs and rocks to...
Guess what?!! I am a contributing blogger to mom.me. I am loving the opportunity to share my ideas with parents. My latest post is my Picasso's Playdough Project. I took loose parts, playdough and inspiration from Picasso's abstract portraits. The level of...
There is something magical about boxes. Add those to the sensory table and it is pure magic! Tubes and funnels where attached to a large boxes taped between two small sensory tables. I put openings on all sides of the box so the children could move the rice in...
This is a super fun playdough center – perfect during the fairy tale, The Three Little Pigs. I make a big batch of brown playdough and put out the three materials the three pigs used to build their houses. I let the children know that they can build a house...
I love love love putting weird and wonderful things in my sensory table. This is an old farm milk strainer. I set it in the wire holder of an antique apple strainer. It worked perfectly. It is magic. . . This was just a little sensory table that created big...
