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From The Desk Of Your Creative Content Creator "Gardens"

Theme:  Gardens and Science Tip: Build Responsibility skills by building an jar garden. Tip: Get kids to try new foods be allowing them to grow and prepare dishes and new foods. Tip: Gardens are a great way to study plants, Bugs and Flowers and Learn how things grow.   What are you working on? What do you need? What are your goals? https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/ Join Us and Let Us Help You Learn Through Play!  OR  Make Me Your  Personal Creative Content Creator ! ( Insert Link To Call) Include Top 10 Favorites 1) Build Gardens In Jars 2) Match Tops And bottoms of Fruits and veggies ( can be labeled with numbers and groups of items) 3) What Do you need to build a garden? Tools?  Supplies? * child directed list 4) how does it grow? ( Life Cycle Stages sensory bin) 5) build a meal.( use loose parts to represent foods) let kids create meals would be great for play dough. 6) how many parts does it have? W...

Monday Morning Invitation To Play!

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Good Morning Creative Friends! What are you learning this week?  Are you exploring a theme?  Are you looking to learn a skill? What are you looking for to support your learning this week?  I am looking forward to having a lot of fun, engaging conversations this week Here, Over on The fb page and in my group!  I love hearing about the creative engaging ways you like to learn and grow. This Morning I encouraged my friends to go outside with a shovel and a bucket. Dig in the dirt!  see what you find. what does it feel like? what does it smell like. what might your little ones want to put in the dirt? Have fun today as you learn! Leave your comments and questions below and I will share my friends ideas as well. Your Creativity Producer and Professional Mess Maker, Theresa @ The Creative Campus.

Play With Your Food ( Playdough, Noodles, Rice and Jello)

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Hello Again Friends! Yes I am that teacher (Huge Smile). I encourage my students to play with their food! we paint with it, we run cars through it. We even squish it! This is not only a great way to encourage your children to TRY new things! but it makes the process of experiencing something new FUN! I do however actually use food to teach as well. I like to slice apples of different kinds in the fall and talk about how they all taste different even though the look the same on the inside. ( we also discuss how they Look Different as well). I like to use food for sensory play as well. This is where the PLAYING comes in! I like to make Jello and put things in it (dino bones is always fun). Then I encourage the children to dig and squish to see what they can find. Jello is also great for playing "I Spy" sensory game. Beans and flour are also great things to use for sensory play and add things to them to change their texture. 'I hope you enjoyed these activities, a...