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Welcome Back Friends! This week we are talking about Bugs!  bugs that crawl, Fly, Wiggle and Hop!  Today I wanted to share a Tip: Hands on exploring activities are great ways for kids to learn about bugs. I also wanted to share a tool with you that can make learning about bugs a little easier.  Tool: Clear Containers can be helpful in exploring bugs  that allow for observation are great ways for kids to observe bugs. I would love to hear how you are learning about bugs this week. Share with us the activities you are engaging with to explore the world of bugs. What have you learned? Enjoy the rest of your day! Don't forget to join the conversation and share your ideas! Creative Campus Early Childhood Learning Activity Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/  we love to learn from one another. Your Creative Solutions Creator and Professional Mess Maker! Theresa

Happy Monday Friends!  Today we are starting a new Theme "Bugs".  This week we are going to talk about the different kinds of bugs, Where they live, what makes them the same/different. Today we talked about the sequence of events involved in the different jobs that bugs have. You can find the video in the group. I would love for you to join the conversation. Creative Campus Early Childhood Learning Activity Group   https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/  share your favorite Bug themed activities. This week we are also talking about Event sequencing. how can you practice this skill while you explore and study bugs?  Share your ideas with us and check in every day for fun new learning ideas. If you want even more fun learning ideas with bugs. Check these out. (Bugs) https://yescourse.com/~/creative-campus/#!invitations-to-play-with-open-ended-play-loose-parts-play-bugs-and-plants/1/zn7px/ I cant wait to hear all your fun ideas for lea...

This week we are talking about Gardens In my Facebook group . https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/ We are having discussions about what might grow in a garden?  what we can turn those things into (Food). Do things "Live" in our garden?  If so, what kinds of things might live their?  What kinds of conversations are you having with your Creative Young Learners?  I would love to hear all about your conversations!  leave me a comment or come visit us over at " The Creative Campus". Have a Fun and Creative day Learning and Growing! Your Creativity Producer and Professional Mess Maker! Theresa

Hi Everyone!  I just wanted to share with you a part of a new blog series I started, called 5 Activities. Each post will give 5 activities to use for a specific topic. I hope you enjoy these posts and I look forward to your comments! Science: Dino Bone Dig   I have use this one over the years. I have enjoyed doing this activity myself. you can find different types of bones or fossils and burry them in your sand table. give each child brushes or scoops to dig out each bone and build a creature. You can use the fossils (objects work too) and press them into playdough to make your own fossils. this is a fun hands on science activity that allows the children to learn about why some things fossilize and some don't. Grow Flowers or Plants. Provide seeds or already started plants. encourage the children to care for their plants daily. As the plants grow and produce food the children will enjoy the rewards of their work. Cook Simple Meals Or Make Playdough: this is fun ...

Its May Friends! This means summer is almost here! I love this time of year, because there are so many things going on around us that the opportunities to learn are endless. Flowers are growing, Trees are budding, Gardens are being planted and Animals and Bugs are Coming out to Play! These are all things that children are fascinated by and want to learn more about. I recently did some fun activities that used a lot of these experiences (even if they were pretend versions). I recently made some "Grass" for my friends to play in. In our grass we had "Bugs" which my friends squished and dug for in our grass. We had lots of things to find in our grass: Spiders, Ants, Snails and so many more! can you see  all the different things? This kept my friends busy for a very long time which was exciting to watch. After they were with this we wanted to turn some of the things we saw in the grass, into art.   so some of my friends made "Flowers" w...

Spring is a great time to get out and explore the great out doors. New flowers and popping up, animals are coming out and things are growing and changing all around us. This makes great opportunities for learning about  nature. A great way to pull nature into your art is by making Textured Caterpillar's, Flowers and Butterflies. This is a lot easier then it sounds, I like to give my friends shapes that look like Caterpillar's (circles) this might mean giving them a bowl with some paint and dipping the bowl into the paint to stamp circles. Then the fun begins. I like to give my friends cut up straws of different colors, tissue paper, confetti if I have it. any kind of art pieces that will be bumpy or textured. Encourage them to fill in the circles they stamped with the pieces and before they know it, they will have a colorful textured Caterpillar's, Flower or butterfly. Now if your going to do a flower, I like to use glue and let my friends either dip the pieces in the glue ...

Hi Everyone, I hope you have gotten a chance to experience the little bit of spring that seems to be surrounding us. This has been a LONG time coming! I wanted to write a little post for you about  "Green". Most times when we think of green, we think of Monsters, Slime and Of course St Patricks day! I would also like to encourage you to think of Spring when you use green this month! Green can be used to make wonderful Flowers/Plants and Even Animals and Bugs. These are some of my favorite things to make this time of year. If you are looking for something fun, I have a really cute activity over there that uses green along with Lots of other fun spring colors.  We made Rainbows In Pots, using Tissue Paper Squares and pot cut outs on paper. You can also use colored paper punches which would be really fun too. I am going to also be posting about a really fun "green" sensory activity. https://www.facebook.com/thecreativecampuspreschool  Stay Tun...