Dragon Week: Sensory Bin

Here is our Dragon Week sensory bin :)

Planet Week: SET Rocket Launch

We just had to do our Rocket launch for this week's S.E.T.!  We had a kit that contained a small rocket and a beaker that you would fill up with baking soda and vinegar and watch as the rocket blasted out of the container:

Setting up our baking soda:

Loading the rocket:

Watching it launch:

The kiddos were a bit disappointed by the lack of true "launch" our rocket made.  I found a cool video online to do when the little ones are a bit older that has directions for a really neat rocket and a time-lapse release of the baking soda.  Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwiosotOlWU

Since there is no disappointment in science, we decided to bring out a cookie sheet, a plastic volcano, and some pipettes so that we could make more "explosions" with the baking soda and vinegar:

They really loved the way it fizzed!

So much science fun!

Planet Week: Making Constellations

Today we made constellations using toothpicks and Styrofoam balls:

Monkey J is actually starting to name some!  His favorites are Leo and Orion, the hunter!

This is a great activity for improving fine motor skills:

Planet Week: Styrofoam Planets

We had such a fun time making our planets this afternoon!  We used styrofoam balls from The Dollar Store and toothpicks to hold them upright while we painted them:

I got out our planets poster and some paint so that Monkey J could try to paint the planets the colors on the chart:

Our finished product was quite amazing!

                         

Planet Week: Sensory Bin

My husband drew an awesome solar system for the little ones:

Our Planets sensory bin was also quite the hit!

And in the afternoon we had fun drawing some constellations:

 We're off to a great start with planet week!

Brown Week Sensory Experiment: Chocolate Sludge

As part of our brown week, we made some chocolate sludge using baking soda, hair conditioner, and chocolate duncan hines frosting mix:

We were going to make chocolate ice cream using 3 parts baking soda to 1 part hair conditioner:

But Mommy's little helpers weren't the best at measuring ;)

And our chocolate ice cream quickly turned into chocolate sludge:

But it just goes to show that you can't really make a mistake when it comes to playtime!

Brown Week

We started our Brown week this week and, as we usually do, we started with a sensory bin:

We also wore our brown cowboy hats!

We also made some brown bears using some brown make-up powder:

And painted using brown paint: