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• Spring Flower Art Collage
• Easy DIY Lava Lamp Science Experiment for Kids
• Sizzlin’ Summer Activities for Preschoolers That Are So Much Fun!

Spring Flower Art Collage Posted: 30 Apr 2022 06:00 AM PDT Click here to read Spring Flower Art Collage on Hands On As We Grow® If you’re ready to be done with winter, a spring flower art collage from Francis is sure to brighten your day! Winter has been extra long here in the UK. Although we've kept ourselves busy with winter activities, spring is our favorite. Brighter days, shiny green shoots, and colorful flowers get us excited! To get us in a spring mood, Melissa and I decided to make a flower craft. She had a hard time deciding between making a sun or a flower. In the end, she decided a colorful flower would be more fun. She loves flowers! Stay in a spring-y mood with Real Flower Crafts & Activities! I thought it would be great to use some old magazines and catalogs before they went into our recycling bin. A collage sounded like a good idea! This activity turned out to be very easy to set up and didn’t need many materials. In fact, we had everything already on hand! I bet you do, too. Make Your Spring Flower Art Collage With: – Scissors – Magazines/catalogs – Pencil for drawing the outline – Glue stick – Stock paper I drew the outline of a flower on our stock paper and Melissa wanted to add some grass too. We only had an A3 (11.7in x 16.5in) paper so it turned out to be quite a big flower! You can use a smaller sized paper to make quicker collages, too. Melissa chose the colors of every part of her flower ahead of time., It makes it easier when looking for them in the magazines. Then the search and cutting began! Melissa would look for the colors and cut them out of the magazines. She separated them into piles by color. After we had decided we had enough of each color, she started gluing them in their place. This part is a lot of fun because there's no right or wrong here. Even going outside the outline a bit gives it an extra artistic effect! She had chosen different colors for each petal. We were both looking forward to seeing see how they would turn out. Pink is her favourite colour, so she worked especially hard on that petal! Use these fun activities to promote fine motor skills! We loved our flower collage. Melissa was very proud! She hung it in our living room so everyone can see it. What are your favorite activities to get ready for spring?

Easy DIY Lava Lamp Science Experiment for Kids Posted: 29 Apr 2022 06:00 AM PDT Click here to read Easy DIY Lava Lamp Science Experiment for Kids on Hands On As We Grow® Make a lava lamp with your preschooler, and your preschooler will love science experiments!  Lava lamps are simple to make. Like crazy easy. My kids love experimenting! And I love watching them discover the world through science and creativity. Easy DIY Lava Lamp Science Experiment for Kids Even I was shocked at what a big hit this easy DIY lava lamp science experiment was with the boys. Just 5 simple supplies are all you need to DIY your own! To DIY your own lava lamp science experiment, you’ll needL Vegetable oil (or get a clear oil) Water Food coloring of your choice Alka-Seltzer Tablets (as many as you choose, the more the merrier!) Clear container (the taller and skinnier, the better the effect) Don’t have Alka Seltzer? See how to make a lava lamp without Alka Seltzer! 4 Simple Steps to Science Fun & Fizzies Fill the container with 2 parts oil, 1 part water, leaving some room at the top of the container for a little bit of bubbling Drop in a few drops of food coloring Add an Alka-Selzer Tablet, start with 1/4 or a half a tablet to begin with Watch is fizz and bubble up to the top! We did three containers of lava lamps. Three different colors, for triple the lava fun! It took a lot of oil, though. I wish I had more on hand because I didn’t quite have 2/3 for each container. The oil is essentially the lava lamp portion, so it would have been nice to have more of it. But it still worked! I also wish I had clear oil on hand instead of vegetable oil. But I’m not sure what kind of oil besides baby oil is clear. Any suggestions? Henry dropped in tablet after tablet. Over and over, watching it bubble up!  He used the entire box of Alka-Selzer just for this experiment! The green one really captured his attention.  Maybe because it’s his favorite color. Or maybe because it was the tallest and skinniest, so it had the best reactions. Have more colorful science fun with an easy magic milk experiment! It was even interesting from the top of the bottles. Or, at least Henry thought so. Once we were starting to run out of Alka-Selzer tablets, we started combining the colors and making them bubble together. We were surprised to see that the colored bubbled remained separate! Instead of red bubbles mixing with blue bubbles to make purple, everything stayed red or blue. Cool, huh?!?! Can you see the little red ones in the mix of the big blue bubbles? We tend to do a lot of science in our house, with tons of easy experiments happening all the time. The boys love anything that fizzes and bubbles. We also really like this baking soda and colored vinegar science experiment for kids. What’s your favorite science experiment to do with the kids? Share your ideas in the comments!

Sizzlin’ Summer Activities for Preschoolers That Are So Much Fun! Posted: 28 Apr 2022 06:00 AM PDT Click here to read Sizzlin’ Summer Activities for Preschoolers That Are So Much Fun! on Hands On As We Grow® Let’s celebrate summer with some fun activities to get wet, play outside and get crafty for preschoolers! We pulled together an awesome list of fun and simple summer activities for kids that you can do right at home. Memorial Day is passed here in the United States, and that usually marks the beginning of summer. Make this Summer Much More Fun! (and easier too) with CAMP MOM. Grab it here. Here are several summer water activities for preschoolers, outdoor play activities to do this summer, as well as summer crafts. These ideas are perfect for preschooler age, simple to pull off, and focus on summer themes. Plus there is lots of opportunity for learning and developing those fine and gross motor muscle skills. And they will be having so much fun they won't even realize they are learning! Summer Water Activities for Preschoolers Let’s take these water activities outside and get wet this summer! Water is one thing that all kids love to splash around, play and get creative with. The possibilities are endless, give these a try! Add some soap to the water and make giant bubbles like Make and Takes did. Getting inside the bubbles looks like the kind of summer activity preschoolers would have fun with! Race I Heart Nap Time’s soap boats with gutters and water. The kids can design their own sails for the boats before starting the race! Take a cue from Happy Hooligans and put together a do-it-yourself waterslide. The fact that it’s cheap and easy makes it even better. Make your own pool noodle water wall. Teaching Mama shares how to make one with just three materials. Hang up (and burst!) the water balloon pinatas from Meaningful Mama’s water obstacle course. A fun activity for preschoolers to play and cool down in the summer heat. Set up water cup races! This game for All for the Boys would work well with any kind of water blasters you have on hand. Why not try your hand at water balloon target practice? Tinkerlab shares how to set up this simple, engaging summer activity for kids. Mess for Less’ water balloon hunt seems like a great cross between a scavenger hunt and a water balloon fight. I can just see my preschoolers having a blast with this summer activity! Water Blob Twister sounds like an amazingly cool game to try this summer. Paging Fun Mums shares all the details. Outdoor Summer Activities for Preschoolers Water is not the end of outdoor fun this summer! There’s plenty to do in the backyard. So grab your sidewalk chalk, or go on a hunt and find some nature! Your preschoolers are going to have a blast with these summer activities. Set up Learn Play Imagine’s pool noodle games for an afternoon. The ball toss and hurdles are sure to keep the kids laughing and playing the day away. Grab the chalk and set up a squiggly line tracing activity. The kids always enjoy this summer activity, especially when paired with water. Bring along some paint samples for a color matching walk this summer. Fantastic Fun and Learning went looking for various plants and flowers in their neighborhood, but the backyard would work just as well! Mix up some bubble solution and try making rainbow bubble snakes. Housing a Forest made them using items from around the house. Make outdoor activity rocks to use as backyard challenges. KC Edventures has some fun activity ideas to use them throughout the summer with your preschoolers. Go on a nature scavenger hunt. The kids can collect anything that catches their fancy, or they can put together a list ahead of time. Drive toy cars and trucks through a chalk-painted maze. Lots of problem-solving activity fun for a summer day with preschoolers. Add learning to this by having the follow the number, or follow a letter! Go bowling with coconuts! Fun-A-Day shares this super simple game using a unique bowling ball. Reading Confetti’s frozen chalk lends itself to so much art and science on a hot day. The kids can help create the chalk and then set it to good use on the sidewalk. Play a homemade game of tic-tac-toe outside. Chicken Scratch NY used a tree stump and painted rocks. Kids can customize their game pieces for this summer activity. Stuck indoors? Download FREE Week of Active Indoor Fun for Kids! Get Crafty with Preschoolers this Summer For some reason, summer just begs to be creative and crafty! Make this summer one you won’t forget by creating these adorable summer crafts during activity time with your preschoolers! Collect some pine cones and create a firefly. Fireflies and Mud Pies’ craft would be fun after an evening catching the real thing. Get painting with Happy Hooligans’s paper plate watermelon craft. Real watermelon seeds could be used in place of the beans. Make No Time for Flash Cards’ toilet paper roll fish. This would be a fun summer activity to do with your preschoolers right before a trip to the beach. Change up some old flip flops as part of JDaniel4’s fish-flop painting activity. Run along a big piece of paper to keep, or try some washable paints on the sidewalk. A Little Pinch of Perfect’s ocean animal sun catcher would look so nice in the kitchen windows. Kids can pick their favorite ocean animal for the center in this summer activity. This is great for learning fine motor skills! Paint egg carton turtles like Emma Owl. A few materials are all you need to get this going. Make Buggy and Buddy’s octopus craft with colored pasta. Add some string and turn it into a tentacled wind catcher for the porch. Make and decorate kites for flying on breezy summer days for some gross motor activity fun with preschoolers, and big kids too. In the Playroom details how to put everything together with paper, string, and sticks. After a walk around the neighborhood, create Happy Hooligans’ nature faces! They could be self portraits or just free art using natural materials. Still Playing School’s sunny sun catcher would look beautiful in the window. She shares a great tip for making these melted bead crafts. What are some of your favorite things to do with your kids in the summer? Share some of your summer activity ideas for preschoolers with us in the comments.

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