Happy Friday! It’s the end of another stay-at-home week, you did it! It’s going to be warm today, Caitlyn and Sarah have several ideas for cooling off.
Sensory Invitation: Make your own popsicles!
Ingredients:
2 cups fresh fruit of your choice
2 tbsp honey
Instructions:
Puree fruit and honey in the blender until smooth
Poor into ice pop molds
** If you do not have ice pop molds, add liquid to an ice cube tray or muffin tin **
Freeze for at least 8 hours, or until popsicle is solid
Intent: This is a great activity to do outside since it is supposed to be warm today! This activity allows the middlers to create their own snack treat that they can enjoy in the warm sunshine today.
Fine Motor Invitation: Open and close clothes pins. You can clip the clothes pins on a wire basket or just on a piece of paper.
Added variation: color the clothes pins different colors and have your child clip them on by color.
Intent: This activity incorporates fine motor development by encouraging the middlers to use the pincer grip to open and close the clothes pins. It also incorporates cognitive development by identifying colors and sorting them.
Outdoor/Nature/Gross Motor Invitation: Water Play! Run through the sprinkler or play with the water hose. If you’re playing in the sun, look out for misty rainbows!
Intent: It’s going to be hot today! Get outside and enjoy the nice weather and beautiful spring scenery. We want to encourage the middlers to use all of their big body and fine motor muscles to enhance gross motor development.
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