Instant
chocolate pudding
2
cups cold milk
Flat
bottom ice cream cones
Plastic
container with tight sealing lid
(Place
the pudding mix in the plastic container before starting this activity.) Ask the children if they've ever had
mud pies. Tell them you have and
they're delicious. Show them the
container and explain that it's dirt.
Pass it around and let them smell it. (Be cool and don't let on!) Build vocabulary by talking about how dry the dirt is. What's the difference between dirt and
mud? Suggest adding a liquid and
pour in the two cups milk. Seal
tightly, then pass the container around the group, encouraging each child to
"shake, shake, shake."
Open it up and have the children describe what happened. Serve in the ice cream cones.
Adaptations:
Add seeds (sunflowers) and a worm (gummy worm).
Worm
Painting
You
will need rubber fishing worms, paint, and paper for this project. (You can buy fishing worms in the
sporting goods department of discount stores.) Let the children dip the fishing
worms in paint and then “wiggle” them on the paper.
*Fishing
worms are also fun to hide in the sand!
Have
children hunt for small, flat objects, such as leaves, feathers, or
flowers. Place each item in a zip
sandwich bag. Zip shut and staple
4-5 bags together to make a nature book.
*Older
children could write a sentence about each object.
