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Magnet Painting Activity

Yesterday, the girls had fun with magnet painting. This is something they both remember doing at preschool and were excited to experiment with it again! You will need:

magnetic marbles
magnet wand
washable paint
a shallow box or tray (not metal!)
paper

I think you can see the basic set-up in the picture below. You want your box to be propped [...]

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Exploring Apples

We have been celebrating the arrival of fall with some fun apple exploration – I love apple season! We are planning a trip to the apple orchard soon. In the meantime, here’s what we’ve been up to:

sink or float?

How many teddy bears does your apple weigh?

sketching the inside of an apple

apple printing
Yesterday, we brought home [...]

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Here’s an oldie but goodie from the archives – have a great weekend!
Our girls have been very excited about doing experiments lately. To feed this interest, and to motivate me and my husband to keep providing these opportunities on a regular basis, we’ve started having “Sunday Night Science.”
This week’s experiment involved exploring if certain [...]

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More Fun with Paper

We set-up a fun “paper-testing” experiment. On a large piece of cardstock or cardboard, glue pieces of different types of paper and other materials: printer paper, construction paper, foil, wax paper, plastic wrap, corrugated cardboard, paper towel, fabric, etc. Choose one medium, such as crayons or watercolors, and see what happens as you draw or [...]

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Fun With Foil

During one of our backyard camp-outs, I brought the box of foil out to the tent and let the girls explore ways to create and play with it. They had such fun! Delaney is especially taken with the foil and asks for it all the time. Here’s a few things we have done to explore [...]

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Weather Charts

Hi everyone! Hope you had a nice July 4th weekend. Looks like we will be trying to stay out of the heat and smoke again this week – I better start thinking of things to do now!

This week’s theme over at Unplug Your Kids was sky. My girls love to talk about the weather, so [...]

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Ice Treasures

The weather is already heating up and I’ve started dipping into my summer bag of tricks. This last weekend, we hunted for treasures frozen in ice.

Natalie had specifically requested diamonds and shells. We ended up using some glass marbles from the craft store, including some clear “diamonds” and a variety of shells too.

I like to [...]

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We’re Hooked on Shrinky Dinks!

Oh, we have been having so much fun with Shrinky Dinks! I remember doing these when I was a kid, and they turned out to be quite fun, and even a bit magical, for my girls. I found my pack in the scrapbooking section of Michael’s.
We started with some simple shapes drawn with [...]

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Mystery Food Taste Test

It’s another Monday, which means another fun Unplugged Project over at the Unplug Your Kids blog. This time, the theme was food. The girls have been doing some 5 Senses projects at preschool, so I thought it would be fun to do a taste test. Once I promised not to use any foods [...]

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Easy Texture Rubbings

paper + chubby crayons (with paper peeled off) = exploring texture with rubbings
some textures we found: tree bark, window screen, bricks, cement sidewalk, house siding

photos by Daddy

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