Category: Science and Inquiry
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Water Play
Your Child Will Learn
To explore the characteristics of water
Here’s What to Do
- Fill the bathtub or set up a kiddie pool or plastic bin outside. Provide some water toys. Some household objects that are great water toys:
- Cups,
- Fill the bathtub or set up a kiddie pool or plastic bin outside. Provide some water toys. Some household objects that are great water toys:
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Tree Texture Collage
Your Child Will Learn
How to observe and compare trees
Here’s What to Do
- Head to an area with several trees (ideally different types of trees). Bring a few pieces of paper, tape, and something to make a rubbing (a
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Bathtime Fun
Your Child Will Learn
Exploring the characteristics of water
Here’s What to Do
- While the tub is filling, gather plastic cups, bowls and containers in different sizes. Poke holes in the bottom of a few so water can trickle through
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Surprise
Your Child Will Learn
Sounds different objects make
Here’s What to Do
- Gather materials: an opaque cup or box with a lid, small objects that fit inside. When your baby’s not looking, put one object in the container and put
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Sounds Around Me
Your Child Will Learn
Different kinds of sounds and the objects that make them
Here’s What to Do
- Gather some objects that make noise (like: rattle, bell, two blocks to bang together, crinkly paper, etc.)
- Hold an object out of
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Push and Pull
Your Child Will Learn
When more or less force is needed to move an object
Here’s What to Do
- Gather a laundry basket/cardboard box and objects of different weights to put inside (books, cans, water bottles, toys, shoes, etc.).
- Ask
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Water Color
Your Child Will Learn
Making predictions and conducting a simple experiment
Here’s What to Do
- Invite your child to draw with markers or chalk on a piece of paper.
- Fill a spray bottle with water, and ask your child to
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Shadow Puppets
Your Child Will Learn
Exploring light and shadow with puppets
Here’s What to Do
- Turn a flashlight on and turn the lights out. Use your hands to make a shadow on the wall, and talk about what’s happening. (You can
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Building Fun
Your Child Will Learn
How to use different materials to build a structure
Here’s What to Do
- Gather building materials from around the house (cereal boxes, cans, plastic containers, straws, egg cartons, paper towel tubes, etc.).
- Place the materials on
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Inside Our Bodies
Your Child Will Learn
Names of internal body parts and how they function
Here’s What to Do
- Cut out the body part pictures (optional: your child can color them first).
- Put a piece of tape on each of the pictures.