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Hello Hello! Can You Clap Your Hands? | Original  Kids Song | Super Simple Songs

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I love You Mommy By Edie Evans | Children's Book Read Aloud

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10 Little Dinosaurs | Kids Songs | Super Simple Songs

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THE NIGHT BEFORE MOTHER'S DAY by Natasha Wing and Amy Wummer - Mother's Day Book - Read Aloud

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Just For You by Mercer Mayer - Little Critter - Read Aloud Books for Children - Storytime

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Just Me and My Mom by Mercer Mayer - Little Critter - Read Aloud Books for Children - Storytime

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Items Needed: Jar, Dish Soap, Glitter or Food Coloring, Water

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Let's Go To The Zoo | Animal Song for Kids | Super Simple Songs

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Elmo Visits the Zoo (Elmo at the Zoo #1)

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To the Momma's - I'm sorry your little one won't be bringing home a craft from the classroom for Mother's Day this year. That said, I won't be posting a Mother's Day craft. You will not be working on your own on my watch.

This week I want you to just focus on enjoying your little ones. Go for a walk. Bake together. Make dinner. Watch a movie. Water the garden. Sit and play with them. And then make sure you take a moment for yourself. Happy Mother's day to all of our wonderful moms! You are doing an amazing job, and should be proud of the little ones you're raising!

And if the Dad's are reading this, and need a craft idea, feel free to reach out to me.

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I really like this sensory bin with oatmeal as the base. Perfect if you're little one likes to eat things he shouldn't. You can use food coloring to dye it, or you can leave the oatmeal as is! Since we're focusing on animals this month. You could add animals or dinosaurs to the bin. Add in some small cups as scoopers, or spoons. You could even add in some water to some undyed oatmeal as well for a sensory table idea!

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Since we're focusing on Zoo animals this month, check out some live cams of different animals. Virtual field trip!

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There are many ways to make a scavenger hunt and to add additional challenges to it for different ages and abilities.  A Scavenger hunt uses so many skills including wayfinding, visual scanning, matching and shape identification, fine and gross motor skills and many others!

I am including some video links and additional information in web resources below but here is a very simple video to help you get started!

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create kids scavenger hunt - Google Search

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Outdoor Treasure Hunt for Kids · Scavenger or Treasure Hunts

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Remember: use your own imagination to make a scavenger more or less complicated!! From simple matching to complex multiple step mystery hunts you can create a learning adventure!  But in case you are having trouble getting started try this site for 22 best scavenger hunt ideas!!

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For outdoor fun using matching with pictures, objects, or words you can use any available items in your yard or at the park!  Or grab some paint chips at the hardware store and use those to help children match colors of things in the house or outdoors!

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🌳 Earth Day Scavenger Hunt  ~ the Good Life Preschool Online 🌳

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Make this fun outdoor play activity with this DIY paint chip colour scavenger hunt game! Fab for a nature themed activity to keep the kids busy and observant as they play outside, in the garden, park, woods or as part of Forest School too.

Paint chip activities are so fun to make as the resources are free and there are so many different ways to adapt them for play and creativity. You find them in the hardware/ DIY store in the paint section and they're for taking home as sample cards. I tend to ask before I take them as I want so many at one time, so maybe you want to check too in case! They're generally very willing for you to have them.

Materials needed:

paint chip cards in a variety of natural colours that you might realistically find outside

If possible find the ones with windows in them as these are PERFECT little viewfinders for the colour matching!

Both the single hole puncher and the ring clips are useful for so many other little DIY games and art activities so they're worth adding to the craft tool kit.

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Simply punch a hole in the top corner opposite where the paint chip colour name is written (you want to still be able to read those for fun!) then arrange them in whatever order you choose. I wanted to try and group the colours together and even have them slightly in a tonal order, but it was quite hard to do. Let the kids make suggestions about how to arrange them too.

Then loop them onto the metal ring clip and click it shut.

Ready to go and play the paint chip colour scavenger hunt game!

We made a few chart rings and set off in the park (via the cafe!) and started trying to match the colours with whatever we could find. Some of the items weren't even in nature and they were an awesome match, such as the mint coloured pepper grinder on the cafe table!

This obviously works better at some times of years than others as we were able to colour match lots of different variations of flowers that were in full bloom at the time.

It would be great for holiday too so that you could look out for unusual flora in foreign places!

But the shades of green were abundant too and in some ways the hardest of all to match as there were so many variations everywhere, in trees, leaves, grasses and stems too!

I actually think it would be amazing to create an entire paint chip colour scavenger hunt using JUST shades of green! It would be a really fabulous challenge for older kids particularly and could be a great prompt before a series of art lessons about creating a range of hues of one colour.

Follow it up with a study/ giant cooperative painting based on Rosseau's "Tiger in a Tropical Storm" and it would be amazing!

This activity was inspired by the absolutely amazing Valerie at Inner Child Fun who did a colour match activity like this years and years back!

If you loved this paint chip colour match scavenger hunt activity then please give it a shout out and share on social media to share the love! Thank you.

You might love this post where I collected Inspiring Outdoor Play Spaces too!

And here are 60 Nature Play Ideas for Kids to keep them playing outside ALL YEAR AROUND!

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Paint Chip Colour Scavenger Hunt - The Imagination Tree

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Make this fun outdoor play activity with this DIY paint chip colour scavenger hunt game! Fab for a nature themed activity to keep the kids busy and observant as they play outside, in the garden, park, woods or as part of Forest School too.

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Landmarks, mapping and matching:

Using landmarks and visual spatial memory, wayfinding (or way-finding) encompasses all of the ways in which people orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place to place.

How does wayfinding develop in children (research)?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494414001054