Exploring colors is super fun with this simple test tube painting activity!

Creating colorful sprinkle paintings and discovering much more than we expected along the way!

Tie dying chenille stems through this simple process to make beautiful stars in preschool....

We made beautiful nature shadow boxes in our prek class!

Exploring pumpkin seeds in preschool through sensory play, creative art, and science...

The point of international mud day is to get messy. Had it been a weekend where I could just let loose and have a mud jamboree, perhaps I would have but I just didn’t have one spare minute this week. I did do some experimenting yesterday and I hope you will enjoy this mildly messy International [...]

I am in the middle of preparing lesson plans for our winter session at school and one thing that I would love to include is an entire unit on nothing but mittens. I am not the only one who enjoys mittens. The mitten matching photo below was from a teacher on my Teach Preschool Facebook [...]

After a week, the leaves on my leaf turkey are starting to dry out and curl. I thought this was kind of a cool way to observe the changing leaves. Thanks for stopping by and feel free to leave a comment!

Today was a beautiful fall day here! It was windy with a little chill in the air but bright and sunny. And the leaves were falling everywhere.  I think because of the leaf exchange I participated in, I am extremely aware of every leaf I see on the ground right now:-) Every time I see [...]

The trees in my back yard are all starting to change colors. I live in the middle of the woods so finding an ample supply of fall leaves is not a problem… Fall leaves lend themselves to wonderful opportunities for scientific discovery. For every science activity, I like to start with a question… How long [...]