Happy Friday! We are delighted to bring you three more invitations for middlers today. Hope you have a wonderful weekend and join us next week for the final week of Lakewood at Home!
Dramatic Play Invitation: Exploring pretend cooking
Creating a play kitchen is simple and can be done with a cardboard box and a marker, and a collection of old pots and pans. Use the marker to draw burners and knobs on the cardboard box and offer some pots and pans and a spoon for stirring. Invite your child to explore and create with these materials. What might they create?
Art Invitation: Markers and paper
At a recent webinar, we were asked to look for the richness of possibility present in simplicity, and today we are thinking of that question through the lens of art invitations. There are so many possibilities contained in a simple piece of paper and a container of markers. The paper could be large, to hold whole arm movements, or very small to make a letter to a doll or an ant. What might your child draw? What marks will they explore making today?
Cooking Invitation: Making herbal iced tea
Making cold brew iced tea is simple and delicious. You will need a pitcher or other easy-pour container, some herbal tea bags, water, and a long spoon for stirring. You can also add fresh herbs (mint, lemon balm, lemon verbena, etc.), lemon juice or honey. Invite your child to explore the tea bags. How do they smell? What do you think will happen when you add them to a pitcher of water? Fill the container with water and invite your child to add tea bags, herbs, etc. They can stir it gently and watch to see if anything happens (tea bags with hibiscus in them will quickly turn the water pink/red). Put the pitcher in the refrigerator for an hour or more to chill and infuse. Then share a glass to cool off.
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