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Science
& Nature:
Looking at living things, reading books, exploring ingredients,
conducting experiments and making observations all help your young
scientist learn about her world.
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Collection Collage
Age Range: 3 - 5 years
Preschoolers often collect small items like
pine cones, twigs, pebbles, shells and seeds. The next time you are out walking
together, encourage your child's curiosity. Creating a collage from the found
items will allow your child to preserve and display their collection.
You will need:
- Collected items (feathers, seeds, pebbles, twigs etc.)
- The lid from an egg carton or a thick piece of cardboard
- Equal parts of flour and salt
- Water to mix
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Instructions:
Combine flour and salt and add enough water to make thick collage dough.
Spread the dough into the egg carton lid and then press the collected items into
it, arranging them as desired. Once complete, allow the dough to harden. The
result will be a beautiful work of art made from nature items!
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Comfort: Enjoy walking outside and noticing
nature. Pay attention to the colours, shapes, sizes and kinds of things you see
and collect. Collecting items provides wonderful opportunity to spend time
together and share your thoughts and observations. What do you like to collect?
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Play: Play an I Spy game while looking for things.
What things can you find that are green? Smooth? Come from trees? Once you have
collected enough things, have your child look at a small grouping and then cover
their eyes while you hide something. See if they can guess what's missing!
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Teach: Collecting items for making a collage is an
excellent way for your child to learn many concepts such as colour, shape, size,
texture. Ask your child to identify items that are round, brown, rough, small or
shiny. See if they use the things they found to create patterns in the
dough.
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