Reggio water provocation

Here is a look back at some of our most popular water play posts - great for the water table or your little one's bath tub! Magic Potions!...

jar lid boats water play activity for toddlers

Planning a water inquiry for kindergarten students is some of the most fun I have had. They had so much fun engaging in hands-on learning.

Gracen and I are lucky enough to have one of her little friends join us for an afternoon of play each Wednesday. They play quite well together, so I put a few things out for them to explore in advance, then step back to let them play, helping communication and sharing happen when needed. We…

Throughout our first week of school, we continued to explore the various tools we use in preschool. One of the tools that we use often in our classroom are these plastic condiment bottles. We usually keep paint in our bottles (which we

Excellent ways to provide an accessible creation station for children and lots of ways to vary art inside the classroom with a variety of materials.

Are you following us on Pinterest? My toddler, like many, has a real fascination with water and will happily play with anything involving water for quite some time. Water play is fabulous when the weather is hot and especially when you can get outside, but living in Melbourne, Australia, this is certainly not the case all the time so I have to come up with ways that we can still play and investigate with water, whilst inside, without making a huge mess! Here is a fun sensory Invitation to…

Exploring water can be fascinating. We started our exploration with plain water and eye droppers. The trays were lined with wax paper. The children started with dropping amounts of water on the tray and seeing the interaction of the droplets. They quickly discovered how they could drag the drops with their droppers to meet others. Some figured out that they could use their own fingers much the same way. They noticed that the droplets increased in size as they connected with others. They…

Outdoor water play EYFS learning. A great pack containing all the printable resources you'll need to set up your early years water area!

I chose this because I think kids would absolutely love playing with it -A River habitat in the sensory table.

My kids were amazed the first time they tried this Fine Motor Skills Water Art. The water creates all kinds of cool patterns and art while being a great fine motor activity.

This practical article by Mary Hohmann and David Weikart describes some Sand and Water Center ideas, as well as providing lists of materials to use in sensory play.

Since the middle of February while were creating our dragon project, I started to notice something. The kids were taking the logs out of our building area and creating "bands" with them as drum sets. Kids were making shaker's at the maker's space, two friends brought three sizes of clay to me and wanted to show the class how when they thumped them each size made a different sound. Another friend took a plastic bottle wrapper off the bottle and pulled on both ends sharply and showing us the…

You can find more information about provocations here :) Provocation 2 : Water Play Background Information At first I thought I would do a direct follow up to last week’s provocation. However…

We play a lot in our classroom, for many reasons. First of all, it is through play that kids learn their social skills and 21st Century Lear...