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Everyone who spends any time with children knows that the box something comes in is usually more fun than the thing that was in the box, right?  The only thing better than those boxes are the REALLY big appliance boxes.  But, heaven forbid, your box gets boring, what should you do? Cut holes in it!  A couple of teachers I work with came up ...

It's really difficult to teach something as subtle as “gentle” to a two-year-old.  Last year I had a kid who thought that “gentle” meant he was supposed to give a hug!  Pressure is a difficult concept, particularly when children are still learning what their little bodies can do.  And let’s face it, in preschool we’re always trying to get them ...

How do you celebrate Halloween with little ones? Carefully. Some children are easily scared, but most twos really don’t get what all the fuss is about. At our school we focus on the seasonal aspects of Halloween. There’s a lot of orange and black, some extra dress-up available, and subtle room decor changes. Children who wish to wear their ...

After I took this picture I realized how creepy it looked, so let me explain. We sometimes put soapy water in our sensory table.  We often wash dishes or just play with the water.  We also like to wash the babies (well, baby dolls).  The kids get great joy out of this activity.  We provide lots of washcloths and large towels ...

Teaching twos is kind of like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get.  Some years, we have paint-eaters.  Other years, we have paint artists.  Some years, we have both in the same class. I like to start the year with something simple at the easel.  I’ve had one year when no one knew what to do at an easel ...

Here’s a fun one for summer, and older preschoolers might not even get that messy.  Roll painty balls down the slide!  Of course, if you don’t want your slide to be painty afterward, make sure you cover it with paper.  This paper makes a great background for displaying children’s art inside once it’s dry. In this picture you ...

I’ve done a slew of baking soda and vinegar posts this summer.  Hopefully they’ll inspire you to share your inner geek with a child in your life.  Here’s the whole list: Preschool Chemistry: Baking Soda and Vinegar Basics Baking Soda and Vinegar for Two-Year-Olds Baking Soda and Vinegar for Three-Year-Olds Volcanoes ...

I just had to post this link here, since it’s related to all the baking soda and vinegar stuff I’ve been blogging about.  If you don’t like the smell of vinegar, do it with lemons instead and clean your counter at the same time.  Brilliant!  Baking soda, dish soap, and lemons at Education.com. Technorati Tags: chemistry,early ...

Here you are, the LAST POST (for now) about vinegar and baking soda.  Enjoy! We don’t advocate violence here, but we had trouble coming up with a good name for this one that wasn’t weapon-like.  It was either grenade or bomb.  I guess ours were more like bombs since we didn’t throw them, but I think next time we’ll toss ...

You thought I’d end the baking soda and vinegar business with the volcanoes, didn’t you?  At alumni camp this year we did exploding paint.  The concept is a little cooler than the execution, but it was fun to experiment anyway. We put some baking soda and paint in snack-sized sandwich bags and then used a funnel to pour in a little ...