| Ever wonder how to interact while learning with your | | | | clay, silt and soil is in your "dirt". |
| kids? How to enjoy those sponge-like preschool brains, | | | | 5) Bury food for a week in your yard. Dig it up and |
| we do a weekly learning theme with short activities | | | | see what happened to it. |
| each day. It is so easy to get stuck in the rut of telling | | | | 6) Make garden stones out of plaster/concrete. |
| our kids to go outside or go play with their trucks. We | | | | 7) Sculpt a cup or box out of clay. |
| are striving to do an activity with them each day. | | | | 8) Make dirt pudding. Have fun burying candy bugs into |
| Come join us! This is our list of activities we came up | | | | the dirt. |
| with to learn about the earth: | | | | 9) Make "Dirty" play dough. Brown play dough with |
| 1) Go on a nature hike and identify non-living things, | | | | glitter specks (rock) in it - my kids loved it! |
| living things and signs of life (ex: dirt, ants and an ant hill | | | | 10) Pick-up garbage in a park, along a quiet street or |
| or water, leaves and broken twig, etc.) | | | | on a trail. |
| 2) Get a bag of topsoil and bury items in it. | | | | 11) Make a terrarium (mini-world in a bottle). |
| 3) Find rocks... paint rocks. Add squiggly eyes and | | | | 12) Make Dirt-art. Use card stock and draw an image |
| some hair and you can make paperweight creatures. | | | | with glue (we did the letter D) and pour dirt over the |
| 4) Do a soil analysis. Find out how much sand, pebbles, | | | | picture to make the "d. |