a rainbow game

some of my kids are getting older 

so I have been trying to incorporate some projects

that are challenging for them

but yet my smaller kiddos can still do...

this has been challenging for me

but yet i know i need to do this for the kids

what you need:

a picture of a rainbow

a rainbow dice

(i made this one)

a regular dice

glue

small pieces of paper--colors of the rainbow

a paper plate for the younger kids

--each side of the "dice" was a color of the rainbow!--

for our game the kids would roll the rainbow dice

and then the numbered dice

if the rainbow dice landed on orange

and the numbered dice landed on 5

they would have to glue on 5 orange pieces

while the older kids are busy with this game

the younger kiddos

are gluing rainbow pieces of paper to a paper plate!

simple, easy, but yet they are busy!

babies + sticky paper plate = lots of laughs for me!

(and maybe a little frustration for them)

and those kids that are to old to have a paper plate 

but not old enough to count or know all their colors

well they just got a rain bow

sat with the older kids and did what they wanted

i always find that they try their best to follow the older kids

They also sit and listen to them talking about colors and numbers

everyone is learning

Does anyone out there have multiple age groups?

What do you need to meet the needs of everyone involved?

I would love to hear your ideas!

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babies, ToDdLeRs, and PRESCHOOLERS, oh my!!!

Linking up with Show and Tell #92

Ice Treasures

"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?"

this is what I heard as I set that blocks of ice out with toys frozen inside!

My reply was

"So you can have fun trying to get them out!"

50 minutes later the toys were unthawed, water EVERYWHERE, and smiling happy kids proud of their hard work!

Here are some pics of the kids working hard to free their icey treasures!

hammering with different utensils



 Pouring warm water to see what happens!

thinking oh he looks soooo cute and he is sooo busy!

then i turn my back and he dumps the bowl of water on himself :)

Happy Friday Friends

Hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend!!

Musical Painting

First I have to say:

What you are about to read is a MUST!!!

If you have never tried this or done it

PLEASE PLEASE DO!!

What you need:

A vareity of painting/writing stations

Music (we used "chillout music")

Set up your stations

I had 4 stations

-easel

-dot paint

-writing activity UNER the table

(taped paper to the underneath of the table)

-finger painting

Play some music, when the music stops the kids switch stations!

I tried to monitor to make sure they were done or very close to done before I stopped the music!

EASEL PAINTING

FINGER PAINTING

UNDER THE TABLE WRITING ACTIVITY

(A MUST DO!!!)

DOT ART

SERIOUSLY best activity EVER!!!

there was something so amazing during this project I can't even explain it very well!

Kids were painting by the way the music was playing!

I had beautiful pictures from calm queit music!

I had WILD pictures from a more African upbeat song

I had Messy pictures from music that was all over the place!

EVERY PICTURE WAS PERFECT!

IT WAS FANTASTIC!!!!

I will be doing this more often and HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend doing (did i mention you NEED to do this) this with a large group, small group, or just play different types of music with your child at home when doing some painting or drawing!

Here are a few more photos from our fantastic project time!

Alrighty! 

Hope everyone had an AWESOME tuesday!

I know we did!!!

Linking this post up with Show and Tell #87

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