Felines, ever above mere humans in the great chain of being, have a day unto themselves to celebrate the “mewness†of a new time. It’s easy for your child to make a cute and cuddly paper kitten in the blink of eye. Provide your child with a picture of a kitten from a magazine or […]
Elephant Appreciation Day is today. Show us how much you care about elephants. This is a big, elephant sized day. We feel it should be celebrated in a big way. Elephant Appreciation Day was declared to celebrate the Elephant because… Â is the largest land mammal of our era, is unique among mammals for its […]
AGES: Seven to 12  Build a catapult to test the relationship between the angle of release and the distance traveled by a catapulted object – a 2d vector. Two-dimensional vectors are diagrammatically represented as two arrows beginning from the same point, one traveling horizontally and the other vertically. They offer a way to organize […]
Web of Life – C:\Users\Public\Documents\Max & Baby\Science\3_WebOfLife.pdf Pre-K to first Students construct a food web to learn how all living things in an ecosystem are interconnected and energy for life comes from the sun. Objectives: 1. Show how plants and animals get energy, by telling other students which plants and animals are eaten by other animals. […]
Can you figure out who’s who? • The Donkey’s Christmas Song, by Nancy Tafuri (optional) • paper • crayons In The Donkey’s Christmas Song, a variety of farm animals and the sounds they make are portrayed. What animal noises can your child make? Play a guessing game with your child. Make a variety of animal noises and invite your […]
A secret ingredient makes letter play colorfully fun.  • White glue • Two cups of salt • Shallow pan • Watercolor paints, paintbrushes • Cardboard Your child can use glue as a writing instrument by squeezing it to draw a letter, word, or name on the cardboard. Encourage her to go slowly, making very thick lines of glue. Together, lay […]
Look at the differences between real and pretend animal behavior.   • construction paper • yarn • hole punch • crayons and/or markers • picture books with animals (fiction and nonfiction) To prepare for this activity, use construction paper to make a book. Punch holes along one side and use yarn to make a binding. Next, gather picture books that feature […]
Intrigue your toddler with this sticky stuff.  • ½ cup water • food coloring • cornstarch (one handful) • plastic plate or bowl Add a few drops of food coloring to the water. Place approximately one handful of cornstarch on a plastic plate or bowl. Talk with your child about how the cornstarch feels. Is it soft or hard? […]
