It’s Wednesday! Today the weather will be pretty warm in the afternoon, so it might be a nice day for some water play. Here are some ideas for invitations for preschool aged children.
Fine Motor Invitation: Cut patterns with scissors
Invite your child to use scissors by first drawing patterns on paper then cutting on the lines they make. Children can also spend a long time cutting out shapes from old magazines, newspapers, and advertising circulars. You can recycle the pieces, or save them for collage work. Ask what kind of patterns they would like to make: zig zag, swirls, a mix of both?
The intent for this is that this is a pretty simple way to work fine motor muscles, and have fun drawing patterns. We have observed preschoolers love our wacky scissors that cut patterns into paper in our art area.
Soap & Water
Invite your child to play with dish soap or baby soap and water in the sink, in a bin or outside. Ask your child what items you can use to make bubbles? Could it be a stick, your hands, or a spoon? Hand crank egg beaters and whisks are also interesting ways to make bubbles. Perhaps your child would like to add plastic toys to pretend play with.
In the past we have put soap, water and plastic toys into our sensory bin and preschoolers have “washed” the animals with sponges to take care of them!
Outdoor/Movement Invitation: Springtime animal watch/move like an animal
What animal’s do you see outside? Can you walk like that animal? Make noises like that animal?
This invitation connects children with the natural world in a very physical way. Being in and connecting with nature increases levels of seratonin, dopamine and endorphins.
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