Oh…..she really LOVES Dinosaurs!!!!

Everything started with a Flubber invasion……and the extermination of those poor little dinosaurs on the table. Then, it happened: The Dino mania!!!

Ok, this sounds crazy!

A few weeks ago, Pinky had a flubber activity at her Preschool. I was in shock when a saw that pink stuff on the table. Yes, it was my first time, too seeing that thing. Her teacher, very kindly, gave me the recipe that same day and a week later we were making our own Flubber. Playing, squishing, cutting, laughing and been two kids (hey, it was fun!!!), we starting to pretend that there was a Flubber explosion, so we were needing some volunteers for the job (aka Dinoes).

After that amazing day, Pinky got more into Dinosaurs and here’s what we did in our Spring week vacation:

Sensorial

Matching-memory game

Matching cards-objects

Grouping dinoes

Science

Math

Straight line.

 

Semi-Circle.

DIY- Patterning with stickers

Follow the pattern by type of dinosaur.

Follow the pattern by color.

 

Follow the pattern by color and type of dino.

Just continue the pattern.

Counting dinosaurs.

Art-Sensorial

DIY Dinosaur fossils!

Pasta Art

DIY Dino stamps- Macy’s catalog recycled

Practical life: Dino bath

Sensorial???

Mystery bag: matching the dino just by touching.

Fine-motor and story telling

Field trip: Science Museum

Dinosaurs are really fun!!!

As you can see, there are plenty of hands downs activities to do with them and the best part is that I didn’t have to print, cut and laminate anything!

It looks a lot but I didn’t have to plan to much since one activity led to the other one. Don’t you like when this happens?

Check Living Montessori Now for lots of more dino fun! And my Dino Pinterest board.

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Don’t you love when you can get lots of learning and fun from one simple activity? I really do….it makes my life so easy! (lol, just kidding).

This is an idea I wanted to try with Pinky for a long time now but I didn’t want to pay for the cards and I was so lazy to make them, so searching around I found ones for free. Thanks to Walking by the way for sharing them!

Pinky liked and tried many of the cards before she decided to make a mess have more fun with the sand.

First, she tried with a stick (we need lots of practice with the correct pencil grasp), but then she got tired and decided to use her finger, much easier and the right excuse to start the sand mess fun sensorial time later one. Mommy is ok with that now ,since she can implement some practical life practice sweeping the sand from the table and then cleaning it with a wet towel. Thumbs up for practical life experience!!!

Have a great week!!!!

Pinky really, really LOVES to play with shaving cream….I never go wrong with it!!!

 

I just added food coloring and paint, and a paper to create a master piece….(in MY mommy dreams). If you ask about Pinky’s dreams, they would be: shaving cream all over the place. However, I was really lucky this time when she just covered her arms. After the fun, there’s always a great bath time.

Beginning! (Mommy’s perfect dream)

Look at my hands!!! (Between dreams)

Going wild! (Pinky’s dream)

Did I say she LOVES shaving cream???

Ok, this is our first: I saw it on Pinterest and I tried!!!

This come from Modern Parents Messy Kids. It is such a great blog with lots of fun activities to try with your kiddo.

• You’ll need:
  • milk (we used 2%)
  • food coloring
  • dish soap (we used Dawn)
  • toothpick 
  • lid

 

• Instructions:
  • Pour milk into the lid.
  • Add a few color drops of food coloring
  • Dip the toothpick into the dish soap.
  • Put the toothpick into the milk.
  • Watch how the colors radiate away from the toothpick.

 

As you can see, it was really fun!!!

Here are some places to learn more about this fun experiment:

1. Steve Spangler Science (you can make it into an Science fair project)
2. Cool Science (such a great, complete and easy explanation about the science behind this cool activity)

Check out these other places:

Everyday, after her traditional preschool classes, Pinky comes home to “learn” more. Yes! This little girl loves to learn. (Of course, she plays, too!)

This week we have been using our Phonetic Boxes, which are getting FULL! Here’s an example of 3 of our boxes and what’s inside them:

Wipes Box plus small objects and toys around the house.

Objects:

• X: xylophone (I made it with a craft stick, toothpicks and beads) X-rays (skeleton sticker),
• Z: zipper, zebra, zero, zig-zag (pinecleaner),
• K: kaleidoscope, knife (a mistake when you’re teaching NOT your first language…this is NOT good for phonics so it’s OUT of our box), kettle (eraser), kite (I made it with toothpicks, felt and a ribbon), koala (eraser), key
• V: van, vulture
• Y: yellow (eraser), yarn, yo-yo (it’s include it now)

Objects:

• O: octagon (felt) otter, ostrich, ox, olive, orange (included now),
• C: castle, cow, car (eraser), cake (eraser), cup (eraser), crab, camel, cabbage (eraser), cat, crayon,
• H: horse, helicopter (eraser), heart, happy face, hand, hippopotamus, hotdog (eraser, included now), hamburger (eraser, included now),
• P: peanut (eraser), pencil, polar bear, puppy, pacifier, pin, penny,

Objects:

• S: seal, shoe (I just took it out since it was hard for her…ok, I know…mommy has to learn more English lol), spoon, spider (it’s black, that’s why you can’t see it), shark (another hard one), seahorse, starfish, seal
• M: monkeys, man, mushroom, motorcycle (eraser), manta ray, mat (it’s black), microscope
• T: truck (eraser), tiger, tomato (eraser), turtle, tree
• A: airplane(eraser, I know this is NOT for a short sound but she knows it starts with A and wanted to included in the box), apple, alligator, ambulance (eraser)

Here’s Pinky working very hard!!! lol….she’s just having fun and loving her beginning sound boxes!

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