Happy Friday! We hope your weekend offers a bit of respite even though it may be wet. Today’s weather looks beautiful and we hope you and your child can spend some time outside.

Language/Nature Invitation: Read Swirl by Swirl by Joyce Sidman with your child or listen to this video. Challenge your child to find spirals outside or in the house. Ask how they can make those spirals with available art materials you have.

Intention is to find ways to represent the natural world through observation.

Sensory Invitation: Mud and toy tracks. Paint muddy toys with water to clean.

Consider making your own mud with water, plastic bin and dirt from your yard. Consider asking your child how different toys move through the mud. Which toys can move easily? Which toys need your help?
For example could a car roll through the mud? A ball? Would it be easier
to move the toy through plain water? Why or why not?

Intention is to explore cause and effect relationships, understand viscosity, etc.

Art Invitation: Spiral Art

Find anything that you can spin, dip it in paint then spin it on paper. Paint by feeling a swirl

OR

Try to see colors in the swirls of a shell if you have one, Look in close to the swirl and see if it can be represented visually with any present art resources.

Intention is to choose to draw from feeling or from observation.

Outdoor Invitation: Build and Bowl

Build a tower with anything you have that can tumble down like plastic cups, small blocks, etc. Herein lies an opportunity to knock stuff over in the great wide open of outside.