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Circle Time Songs of the Day
The Flower Song
(tune of Do You Know the Muffin Man?)
Curl up like a tiny seed,
A tiny seed, a tiny seed.
Warm sun is what you need,
Now you can start growing.
Drink the rain and start to rise,
Start to rise, start to rise.
Stretch up tall, arms opened wide,
Now a flower's showing.
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Fine Motor Practice
- Cup Stacking: For young children, picking up items and putting them in place helps them to learn how to control their fingers, as well as grasp and release. Recycle and reuse paper or plastic cups into a fun stacking game. How high can you go?! Cups can be stacked into pyramids of all sizes and shapes or made into walls or towers. You're just limited by the number of cups in your stash. Plus your children can practice their math skills if they count their stacks or create patterns with different colored cups.
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Art
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Crayon Resist Painting: For this activity, you will need a white crayon, paper (preferably white), watercolor paint, brush, and water. Have your child take a white crayon and draw a picture on the white paper, pressing firmly down. Have your child brush watercolor over their drawing. The watercolor will stick to the paper, but will "resist" the white crayon. Their drawing will magically appear!
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Science / Cooking
- Fireworks in Oil and Water: For this experiment, you will need oil (any kid of light colored cooking oil will work), liquid food coloring, a glass container, small cups, a fork, and warm water. Fill a glass container with warm water, leaving an inch or so at the top for oil to be added later. Add oil to a small cup. Add a few drops of food coloring to the oil. Don't add too much! Use the fork to stir the oil and food coloring together. Gently pour in the oil so that it layers on top of the water, with the food coloring droplets suspended within the oil. Watch your "firework" science display!
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Gross Motor Play
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Weather Movements: Pretend to be a meteorologist. Have your child use their bodies to be different types of weather. Examples include rain, snow, hurricane, tornado, and wind.
- Becoming a Flower: Now that Spring has begun, flowers will start to bloom. Talk with your child or read a story about a flower starting to bloom. Have your child act out a flower in the beginning of spring.
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