Category: Education

Mess-Free Finger Painting

From Hippiehousewife: Pour some tempora paint into a zipper lock bag. Get all the air out before you securely close the bag. Use painters tape to tape to laminate table. (If you have a dark colored table, put a light piece of paper between bag and table first.) Let your kids at it. Fun to mix colors too!

Oreo Moon Phase Project

Using oreos, have kids scrape off (or eat) the filling to match the moon’s phases. They’ll have a yummy time learning terms like “New Moon” “Crescent Moon” “Gibbous Moon” & “Full Moon”.

Geo Board

Here are some instructions from Mama Jenn:

– a wooden board (I got mine from Michaels & it is sanded with beveled edges for about $2)
– black spray paint
– hairbows (I got mine from the Dollar Store)
– lots of push pins (also from Dollar Store)
– graph paper
– pen/pencil
– hammer

First, I spray painted the wooden board. Then, I used a pencil and graph paper to mark off the grid template. I made mine about 1.5 inches apart. Next, I laid the grid onto the board.

I made two geoboards and things went much better the second time around. With the first one, I hammered down all the push pins leaving just a bit of room to tear the graph paper away before hammering the pins all the way down. I found this to be very tedious and time-consuming, because the paper kept ripping in very small pieces.

The second time around I took one push pin and pushed it in to mark all of the holes. I only pushed it in enough for me to see the little holes. Then, I took the graph paper off and found all the little holes and hammered push pins into them. It seemed to work much better this way.

All of the kids love playing with their new geoboards and they were so easy to make!