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We’re working on our colors! Mom helped me organize my fruits so I can see the colors!

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And splashing!

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She preferred counting them instead of “catching” them! 🐠

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Our recorded story time recorded.

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This game is awesome for fine motor skills, sensory play and pretend play, this easy to set up game keeps little ones engaged for quite some time! Let's go fishing!

Materials:

Colorful pipe cleaners

Scissors

Clear bowl, cup, mason jar, plastic cups

Water

Instruction:

Take several pipe cleaners and form a fish shape with them. For larger fish, use one long pipe cleaner. For smaller fish, cut one pipe cleaner in half.

Fill the container you are using up with water 1/2 way and dump all the fish in.

Make a fishing hook out of one pipe cleaner or use a chop stick.

Use a cup or plate for the captured fish to fit into.

Hand your child a hook and invite them to go fishing! 🎣

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Help your child learn to compare different sizes by sorting favorite toys or objects between BIG and SMALL! Simply draw out a small and big circle on a large sheet of paper (tape to floor) and set out your little ones favorite toys!

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If you made a trip to the beach, it's likely you brought home some sea shells!! If you have these on hand, this seashell painting activity could turn into a quick summer art setup for your little ones!

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Turn your flat kitchen spatula/turner into a stamp! What a super fun way to teach your little one a different process/way to experience painting.

Material:

Spatula

Disposable butter knife

Washable blue paint

White paper

Black marker

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Your little one will love working their hands into this cool activity!
With sea creatures resting at the bottom of the ocean (jelly), they'll be so intrigued to dive right in and retrieve them out!

Materials:

gelatin powder

water

blue food coloring

sea creatures

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There is nothing like a bit of “eye candy” and making food look fun and appealing? Especially if it is EASY to do! How adorable are these banana dolphins?!

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All you'll need is slice oranges.  Provide pretzels and raisins.

Encourage your child to place an orange circle slice on their plate.  They can use the pretzel sticks for the rays of the sun and raisins to make faces!

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These suncatchers for kids offer a fun way to explore pattern, design and color mixing, and can be as structured or as unstructured as you like! These are hearts but you could easily create any shape you want!

Materials:

Large white basket coffee filters

Water color paint or watered down food coloring

Ice-cube tray

Paintbrush or eyedropper

Plastic tray/ cookie tray

Paper towels

Scissors

Instruction:

To start you'll need some large white basket Coffee Filters.  They are great for crafts! Flattened out a handful of them and cut a variety of sizes of hearts out of them.

Set your child up with an ice cube tray filled with colorful watercolors. (If you don't have liquid watercolors, you could paint with traditional watercolors or use lightly watered-down food coloring).

Place your cut-out coffee filters in a plastic tray or box (this will get messy!) Once each one is “done,” carefully pull it from the pool of watercolors and place it on a paper towel lined cookie tray to dry.

Using an eyedropper, you and your child can carefully add the colors to each heart.  It is so pretty to see the colors swirling. An easier option is to use a paintbrush and stroke on the color.

Several hours later, the hearts were dry and ready to be put up in the window. Sooooo pretty!

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This Sun Handprint Craft is particularly sweet for multiple little ones because one child can do the project OR a few children can add their hands to the same project!

Materials:

White paper

Yellow/Orange finger paint

Paint brush

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This coffee filter sun craft is a perfect activity since you don’t need a lot of supplies, you don’t need a lot of time, and the kids don’t need a lot of help!

Materials:

One white basket coffee filter

Construction paper

Markers

Crayons

Paint

Glue stick

Instruction:

Start by simply coloring the coffee filter bright yellow. You could use yellow paint, markers, or crayons!

Use your glue stick to glue the filter down onto the center of a piece of construction paper. Light blue works well because it resembles the sky.

Once your paper dries, you can add a Mr. Sun face, sun rays, etc. Done!

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Eleanor working on her Fish Masterpiece! 

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Eleanor working on her Fish Masterpiece! 

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Here is one easy activity you can setup inside to help your child get out some of that stored up energy!

Fill up a water jug about 1/4 full and out tape down on the lid. Tape two sheets of paper to the floor on opposite sides of the play room. The idea is that your child will carry the heavy jug from one point to the other.

Supplies: empty milk jug, water, painters tape, construction paper

Tips & Tricks
**Placing the paper sheets in areas to create a natural obstacle course is also great, as opposed to a straight line.
*This will add a degree of difficulty as the water slouches around in the jug, forcing them to tune into their balance.

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They are inseparable.

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A simple activity to promote eye contact and requesting!

Sing the song "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," while you move your child in a laundry basket! When the song ends, wait for your child to initiate a request ⛵

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Can't get to the beach? Bring the beach home with this easy sand play dough recipe!

So while we stay safe at home, we are grabbing our box of shells and a scoop or two of sand and making a beach come to life right at our kitchen table! 🏖

NO COOK PLAY RECIPE:
Mix together
1 cup play sand
1/2 cup of all-purpose flour
1/3 cup of fine salt
1 tbsp of cream of Tartar
1 tbsp of vegetable oil
1 tbsp of coconut oil or Glycerine
Add
3/4 boiling water
*you can wear a glove and mix the *very hot* play dough by hand to make sure the dough is kneaded thoroughly, which spreads the heat, dissolving the granules to make a smooth texture.
Note
**If too sticky add a little more flour
**If too dry add a little more water
*Coconut oil or Glycerine give the play dough a super silky texture
*Cream of Tartar is a preservative, it makes the play dough have a longer shelf life

We may not have the beach, but we still have our imaginations! 🐚

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What a fun, taste-safe way to strengthen your little one's fingers and pincher grasp? Plus, there is nothing more exciting than some colorful spaghetti to pull and eat!🤤

Materials:

1 lb box of spaghetti

All natural food coloring

Reusable containers or ziplock bags

Vegetable oil

Colander with big holes

Tape

Instruction:

Cook the spaghetti al dente! You don't want it too soft or the strands will break as you are threading them

In 6 plastic bags or, even better, reusable containers with lids, combine 2 teaspoons of water and a couple of squirts of the different colors of food coloring

Add pasta to the bags/containers and shake, shake, shake!

Rise off any excess food coloring

Add a small amount of oil to the spaghetti. This will help the spaghetti slip through the holes more easily

Thread the spaghetti through the colander. For a quicker process, just cut a strand in half or quarters to avoid threading an entire strand all the way through!

Tape the colander down to stop it from sliding around.

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Here's a fun way to cool off outdoors while playing with buoyancy and melting point! 🌊

Supplies You'll Need:

Water

Food Coloring

Muffin tin

Toothpicks

Tips & Tricks

To keep toothpicks upright during the freezing process, just put a thin layer of foil over the muffin tin and poke the toothpicks through and they will stay in place!

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Looking for a fun craft for those lazy days at home when you simply can’t make it to the beach but you oh so want to be there? Make this Ocean in a bottle craft with your little ones! 🧜🏽‍♀️

Materials:

Empty bottle

Hot Glue

Vegetable Oil

Food Coloring

Glitter

Water

Any additional items for fun (we used those pond stones, & a couple water themed stickers)

Here's how you do it:
1. Fill your bottle 1/3 of the way with water.
2. Add a few drops of your choice color food coloring, glitter, and any additional items.
3. Shake up the bottle to mix in the food coloring.
4. Fill the remainder of the bottle with oil.
5. Hot glue the lid closed so your little one can't get into it!
6. Explore the fun of shaking up your ocean bottle!

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F is for Fish, S is for Sea, and
O is for Ocean !

Materials:

Celery

Gold Fish Crackers

Cream Cheese

Blue Food Coloring

Just soften the cream cheese. Add blue food coloring. Generously apply it to the cleaned and cut celery sticks. Add the fish! Super cute and easy!

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Materials:

Beach ball

Beach towel

1)  Have your child grab one side of a towel. You can grab the other or let a sibling in on the fun!

2)  Work together to bounce the beach ball on the towel.  Count how many times in a row you can toss it up before it falls off!

Variations:

Roll the ball up and down on the towel to each other.

Substitute a water balloon for the beach ball and see what happens!

Substitute a balloon for the beach ball.

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This is a fun and easy way to work on gross motor skills indoors! Count how many baskets you and your little one can make!

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Step 6: After the plates dry, hole punch a line of holes along the bottom of the jellyfish (paper plates) and added varying lengths of yarn.

You could also use ribbon, string and ribbed yarn to add texture. You could knot the strings to keep it more permanent. Once they're hung up they are fascinating to watch as the strings sway with the wind!

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These cool jellyfish have lots of texture, pattern, color and movement. These things are all that and more!

Materials:

A long sheet of bubble wrap

Colorful paints

Paper Plates

Small paint roller

Tape

Scissors

Hole puncher

Ribbon, yarn, string, etc.

Step 1: Begin by taping a huge sheet of bubble wrap on the deck or driveway.

Step 2: Cut as many paper plates in half (one plate per jellyfish) as you want to create!

Step 3: Mix a bunch of fun colors together, then begin to roll the paints onto the bubble wrap.

Step 4: Press the paper plate halves onto the painted bubble wrap to make prints. *(If you push really hard you can even make the bubble wrap POP!) The more paints you can add to the bubble wrap and roll, the more the colors mix, and then all sorts of new colors emerged!

Step 5: Once you have printed all of your jellies, little ones can dance and hop across the colorful bubble wrap for more sensory play & fascination!

(See Pt. 2 below)

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There isn’t much you need in order to make this adorable project! Your little one can use one foot or both in order to make this!

Materials:

One or two sheets of blue paper

Orange finger paint

One cute little foot!

Black marker

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This is so much fun to make because there is lots of painting, gluing and using sticky tape involved!  🦀

Materials:

Orange or Red Paint

Paper Plates

Orange or Red Pipe Cleaners

Sticky Tape

Large White Circles (made of paper for the eyes)

Small Black Circles (made of paper for the eyes)

Craft Glue

2 x Paint Brushes (for glue and paint)

Scissors

Black Marker or Sharpie

Step 1: Start by getting your child to paint as many paper plates as you wish to turn into crabs. Allow to completely dry.

Step 2: Pre-cut out the eyes for the crab. Have your child try and place glue on the eyes and glue them to the face of the crab. Then draw a smile with a black marker or sharpie pen.

Step 3: Turn the crab over and tape the pipe cleaner legs down with sticky tape (painters tape or masking tape are also great for this project.) Make two crab claws with pincers to be taped above the eyes. Tape four additional legs to each side of the crabs body.

CRAB IS DONE!!! Can't wait to see yours!

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We're making ourselves into cute little hermit crabs!

Materials:

Paper Plate

Finger Paints

Scissors

Tape

Photo of child or photo copy

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To work on those fine motor skills, make some fish using cheerios for the scales! If your little one makes snack time out of this project, that's okay too 😆

Materials:

Cheerios

Yellow paper

Googly eye

Glue / Scissors

Black Pen

Step 1: Start by free-drawing or printing a fish outline on a piece of yellow paper. Add the smaller details with a black pen such as the fins, mouth, gills, etc.

Step 2: Then squirt some glue around the middle of the fish and stick on some cheerios.

Step 3: Add huge googly eye and you’ve got yourself an adorable little fishy!

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Focusing on how to put the hair tie on the cardboard roll

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Practicing with all of the shapes learned this week

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Today’s Post it grab

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Eating them is more fun!! 🤗

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Scooping Cheerios!

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Charlie had fun sorting shapes!

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This paper plate craft is a great craft for any time of the year and the best part is it’s made out of a paper plate, which you probably already have on hand. You won’t believe how simple it is to make too!

Supplies:

paper plate

acrylic paint (color of your choice)

pink cardstock paper (or construction paper)

googly eyes

white string/ yarn

black marker

scissors

glue

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Having fun with Pom Pom stick!

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Materials:

star cookie cutters

white cardstock

scissors

blue and red paint

a ball

a shoebox

pen

Instruction:

First, trace the star cookie cutters on to the white paper. Then either cut them out then or get started painting.

Stick a piece paper into a shoebox. Dip your ball into blue or red paint. Stick it in the shoebox, close the lid, and SHAKE IT!

Once the ball shakes for a bit, rinse it off and try another color.

If you have a child who would rather touch the ball and paint by hand, then just let this turn into a messy activity instead!

Once you've added enough paint to the stars, cut them out (if you haven't already), let them dry, and then use them to decorate for Memorial Day or the Fourth of July!

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Materials:

Toilet paper roll

Black or white construction paper

Red, white, and blue tempera or acrylic paint

Scissors

Glitter

Directions:

Start by cutting a toilet paper roll into 2″ long fringes. Open up the fringe so that it lays flat against the table, and place the roll onto a paper plate that has been covered in a thin layer of tempera or acrylic paint.

Encourage your little one to take the roll, dip the fringe in the paint, and stamp it onto the paper. Easy peasy!

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Thank you Lucy & Mom for sharing your book with us!

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Blake was laughing at the bubble gum song and we watched it over and over!! Thanks Ms Michelle 🙂

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Mackenzie is loving sorting and threading her straws!

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Happy First Anniversary to The Goddard School!

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Happy First Anniversary to The Goddard School!

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Recorded

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She blows love on them to help them grow!

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Mackenzie wanted to show you all her green bean sprouts! We planted these the day we picked them up from school and they have grown so much!

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Sorry you missed us! Here is a recording of our morning meeting!

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Here is our Monday Morning Meeting (recorded) 😊

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Here is our Monday Morning Meeting (recorded) 😊

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Join Story Time Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/385003176?pwd=ZnErNEM4M0NxU0UvRG91cUpYeEpCQT09

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Daddy helped Blake to make a surprise for mommy!

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Dear Parents,

As this is Teacher Appreciation Week, The Goddard school  teachers and administration wanted to take a moment to thank all of YOU (parents and grandparents) for being the great teachers at home!   We appreciate YOU :)

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Balloons are fun to squish! (Yesterday’s activity a bit late to post)

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Blake enjoyed her sensory ice activity

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Here's a fun activity for problem solving and fine motor skills!

Supplies:

laundry basket

string

balls