So, this week is bug week. After reading a book about bee's, focussing on the bit that explains that bee's make honey by collecting nectar from flowers, i set up this activity :
We have coloured water in cups with flowers, a few pipettes and an empty egg carton to act as the bee hive.
The children used the pipette to collect the coloured water and took it back to their bee hive.
Not only did this activity really help the children understand what bee's do, they also noticed that mixing colours made new colours. They mixed yellow and blue water to make green water and red and blue water to make purple - and all the colours to make, well, a brown mess!
The children (aged 2, 2.5 and 3.5) all loved this game, they were there playing for around 35 minutes - which is a life time in toddler world!! After they had finished we chowed down on honey and bread - yum yum!!
I also made a sensory box - i love sensory boxes. Young children learn about their world by exploring and experimenting using their senses, everything ends up in their mouths and being banged etc. Sensory boxes are a a great way for children to learn using all off their senses.
This is a photo of our bug box -
This box is full of mud, with small plastic bugs hidden. I have also added rakes, tweezers and magnifying glasses to encourage exploring!
The children (Aged 2.5, 2 and 19 months) all commented on the mud, one said it was cold, another said it was squidgy and another simply said 'yuk!'
They were all so pleased with themselves when they found a bug and even more happy when they used the tweezers. The 2 and 2.5 year olds liked looking through the magnifying glasses and both realised it made things bigger.
Will share more of my sensory boxes soon - I am a little obsessed with them!!
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