Category: Activities

Materials
Red tempera paint
Yellow tempera paint
Blue tempera paint
Gallon size Ziploc bag
Duct tape
Directions
Place a glob of red tempera paint, a glob of blue paint, and a glob of yellow tempera paint inside the Ziploc bag.  Zip the bag closed and reinforce with clear duct tape.  Invite your child to use his fingers to mix the three colors together.  Observe the new colors that are made as yellow mixes with blue, red mixes with yellow, and blue mixes with red.

Ingredients
White cake mix
Food coloring or paste
Eggs
Oil

Directions
Make cake as directed. Divide the batter into six small bowls.  Add food coloring or paste to each bowl in the colors of a rainbow. In a greased and floured bundt pan, pour the vaious colors of batter in layers. Bake as instructed. Allow to cool slightly before removing from pan. Enjoy!

Materials
Freeze colored water in plastic cups
Baking soda
Pipettes
Vinegar
Tray

Directions
Take frozen water cups out of the freezer. Place cups onto a tray. Invite your child to scoop approximately 1/4 cup of baking soda on top of the frozen water. Place the pipette into vinegar, squeeze the top, release so the vinegar gets sucked up into the pipette. Then squeeze the pipetter over the vinegar and observe what happens.

Materials
Clear contact paper
Permanent marker
Craft tissue paper cut into 1-inch squares (rainbow colors)

Directions
On the non-sticky side of the contact paper, draw arcs to resemble a rainbow. Carefully pull the backing off and tape the contact paper to the table surface, sticky side up. Place one piece of tissue in each section to represent the color to be used for each arc. Invite your child to add colors to the contact paper. This is a good project to keep out and invite your child to continue adding to the rainbow a little bit at a time over a few days. Once all the arcs are covered with tissue, hang the rainbow contact paper up on a window for the light to shine through.

Materials
Heavy number cards 1-10 (Sandpaper number cards work well)
10 clothes pins

Directions
Lay a few number cards and clothes pins out onto the table or carpet surface. Invite your toddler or preschooler to choose a numeral and pinch the number of clothes pins around the edges of the card to match the numeral.

Toddlers should focus on 1-5
Preschoolers 1-10

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Materials

Numerals 1- 10 on carpet squares, large foam number puzzle, rubber dots with numbers taped onto the dots

Directions

Make a number line using carpet squares, foam puzzle pieces, or colored rubber dots. Invite your child to jump on each dot, starting with 1 up to 10 and saying each numeral as he jumps.

Lesson extensions:

• For preschoolers, mix up the numerals and extend to 20
• Jump in reverse order, counting backwards as you jump
• Place all even or all odd numerals down to help encourage counting by 2’s
• Count by 5’s or 10″s

Materials

Coffee filters
Washable Markers
Spray water bottle
Tray

Directions

Invite your child to use markers in various colors to color all over the coffee filter. Not every space needs to be filled with color. Next, place the coffee filter onto the tray and invite your child to use the spray water bottle to cover the coffee filter with water. Once the coffee filter dries hang it on a window or mount on another piece of paper.

Materials

Shaving Cream
Elmer’s School Glue
Small bowl
Spoon
Blue construction paper

Directions

Place 1/2 cup of shaving cream and 1/2 cup of glue in a small bowl. Invite your child to mix the glue and shaving cream well. Once well mixed, encourage your child to spoon the mixture onto the construction paper and gently spread around the paper. Allow the mixture to dry.  It makes a nice 3-D picture.  

To make the clouds look like storm clouds as in the Bible story, Noah’s Ark, add a drop of black tempera paint.

Materials

Rubber Ducks that have numerals and dots on the bottom
Plastic container of water or bath tub

Directions

Fill a large plastic tub with water.  Place ducks in the water.  Depending on the age of your child, you may want to start with just a few ducks and then add more as your child is feeling more confident.  In this activity, your child may match numeral to numeral, numeral to the corresponding number of dots, count dots, or place ducks in numerical order. Each one of you can choose a duck and have your child determine which is the higher number. You can also make up addition or subtraction problems using the ducks.

There are lots of great math games you can play while playing with the rubber ducks!