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Creative
Activities - A Few Ideas To Get You Started! |
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| Vegetable
Prints |
| Poster
Paint |
Raw
Vegetables |
Sheet of
paper |
| Sharp
knife (for adults) |
Heavy
Paper Plate |
Newspaper |
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- Cover the table with the newspaper.
- Ask a grown-up to use the knife to cut vegetables
with a flat surface showing.
- Pour a thin layer of paint into a heavy paper plate.
- Dip the flat side of the vegetable in paint.
- Press vegetables onto paper for vegetable prints.
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| Chicken
Feed (serves 6) |
| 2 cups
Cheerios |
1 cup
peanuts |
1/2 cup
sunflower seeds |
| 1/2 cup
raisins |
1 cup
M&M's |
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| Ideas: |
Put in individual-sized bags or cups
for a special snack. |
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Talk along as a snack on a walk or to the
park. |
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Make after reading a book with a chicken
or related topic such as Rosie's walk, Hattie and the
Fox, Chicken Little, The little red hen, Minerva Louise. |
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| Paper
Bag Puppets |
| Lunch-size paper bags |
Crayons,
markers, etc. |
Construction
paper, fabric, or ANYTHING! |
| Ideas: |
Make Puppets for the characters in a
story. |
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Talk about how the characters are the
same, different. |
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Put on a puppet show, retelling the story. |
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Use anything available to decorate to get
child's desired effect. |
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Make puppets just for the fun of it, not
worrying about a particular story or design. |
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Celery Wagons
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Celery Sticks, 2"
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Carrot Slices (Disks)
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Toothpicks
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Fillers
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- Wash the celery and cut it into 2"
sticks.
- Cut cleaned carrots into disks for
wheels.
- Push toothpicks through celery and
attach carrot wheels (May need to trim toothpicks).
- Fill with peanut butter, cream cheese,
raisins, cheese, etc. (Remove toothpick before eating!)
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Scientific Surveys
(general Ideas, not ordered)
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- Listen to what your child is thinking,
wondering, deciding (such as "Everybody likes vanilla ice
cream better than chocolate") and pick out the key
factors or elements.
- Do a survey of who's in your house,
maybe offering taste sample if appropriate.
- Chart these ideas and see who likes what
the most, last, etc.
- Make predictions or other connections.
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