in our conversations about travel and transportation, we discussed airplanes. figured out was that they can go over water, but they can also go over land. they can go from country to country, but also city to city. one answer i didn’t have was what is the SHORTEST distance an airplane can take us. howContinue reading “a is for airplaine”
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r is for rivers, roads and rails
this is a wonderful puzzle game. i made it simpler by using only the pieces with one river, road or rail.
s is for suncatcher
we cut plastic binder dividers into strips, then snipped more, then pressed them on a piece of laminate, then added another piece of laminate on top. when the pieces of colored plastic would overlap, we would see color blending. beautiful.
r is for rainbow kite
actually, i thought of these as wind-catchers, but the preschoolers exclaimed things like, “oh yeah! a kite!”…so they became kites. the first step was cutting a hole out of the center. any kind of hole. i learned quickly (and should have known!) to poke the scissor through first (thankfully we avoided hurt children). then wasContinue reading “r is for rainbow kite”
c is for color wheel
a big piece of cardboard. remaining paint from our rainbow stripes. found objects. 3+ bottles of glue. ahhhhhh. color wheel.
