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Showing posts with label playbased. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

It's Playtime: Chocolate Lovers

Happy New Year Messy Kids and It's Playtime readers!  We all had a wonderful Christmas brake but now we're back and ready to rock.  We appreciate all our readers and participants and can't wait to see what the New Year brings.

This week on It's Playtime I'm celebrating....CHOCOLATE!
Stuck inside on a rainy day?  Open a Play Dough Chocolate Shop and see how creative your little baker can be.  What's Fun Today? shares the recipe for chocolate scented dough and other ideas for bakery play fun.

Teach Preschool dedicated an entire day to Hot Cocoa Play!  Check her post for art, sensory, and play ideas celebrating this delightful winter treat.

Why buy Cake Pops when you can make your own?  Rockabye Butterfly shows you how.  I bet your kids will love mushing the cake!  

If you were featured this week, don't forget to grab your special "featured button."
  


Now, on to this weeks play date! 
It's Playtime is a community and Thursday link-up hosted by:

* Rachele : Messy Kids (That's me!)
* Anna : The Imagination Tree
* Rachel : Quirky Momma
* Jamie : hands on : as we grow
* Jenny : Let the Children Play

How to Play :
* Link up a post about a playful learning experience enjoyed by kids.
* Give us love and pop a button into your post/blog. Invite your readers to the weekly play date!


* Stop by one of our blogs every Thursday and add your link about play. Your link will show up on each of the blogs in the It's Playtime community.
* Each week the playtime hosts will choose favorite posts to feature. (By linking you are giving us permission to use an image and link to you, if featured.)
* Be sure to visit some of the links that catch your eye. Commenting on posts that you find interesting or inspiring is a wonderful way to develop your own playful community.

Friday, December 30, 2011

The Messy Kids Top 5 Posts of 2011

This past week, I've noticed a lot of other bloggers posting their top 10 posts of 2011.  Just to be different (and because I've only been around for a little less then a year), I'm going to share the Messy Kids Top 5 Posts of 2011.


 



And the #1 Messy Kids post of 2011....No Flour Playdough!  

Thank you for being a part of my first year as a blogger and I look forward to sharing so much more with you in 2012!  

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

It's Playtime: A Winter Feast for the Senses


I've often expressed my love of sensory bins.  I'd hoped to create my own winter "snow" bin at my house but bags of plastic snow disappear early in the season (us southern Californians find snow where we can).  I guess I'll have to be as creative as these wonderful posts shared on It's Playtime!

There's the fake snow I was looking for!  Winter White Sensory Tub from Make, do & friend

I love all the different elements this Christmas Sensory Tub from Pre-school Play has to offer!  The mirror "pond" is my favorite.  I remember one of my grandmothers having something similar when I was a child and I loved imagining the characters ice skating over it.  

H is for Homeschooling also put together a Christmas Sensory Bin.  I love how completely different it is from the one created by Pre-school Play!  

We Can Do All Things shared their Homemade Iceland created from colored salt.  The little penguins look so happy!  

If you were featured this week, don't forget to grab your special "featured button."   


Now, on to this weeks play date! 
It's Playtime is a community and Thursday link-up hosted by:

* Rachele : Messy Kids (That's me!)
* Anna : The Imagination Tree
* Rachel : Quirky Momma
* Jamie : hands on : as we grow
* Jenny : Let the Children Play

How to Play :
* Link up a post about a playful learning experience enjoyed by kids.
* Give us love and pop a button into your post/blog. Invite your readers to the weekly play date!


* Stop by one of our blogs every Thursday and add your link about play. Your link will show up on each of the blogs in the It's Playtime community.
* Each week the playtime hosts will choose favorite posts to feature. (By linking you are giving us permission to use an image and link to you, if featured.)
* Be sure to visit some of the links that catch your eye. Commenting on posts that you find interesting or inspiring is a wonderful way to develop your own playful community.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

It's Playtime: Wishing for Snow



I live in San Diego, so I often find myself wishing for snow, as do my children.  My son is 4 and has yet to see snow.  Every year there is a short window where we can drive an hour from our home to play in the snow, and it seems, every year we miss out.  We drove north for Thanksgiving and my daughter's big wish was for it to snow, which it did not.  Very disappointing.  So this week, on It's Playtime, I'm featuring some fabulous snow activities...NO SNOW REQUIRED!

Who needs snow to make a snowman?  Not Nurture Store!  They created Snow Playdough and built their own indoor snowman.  The best part?  This snowman won't melt!  

I'm not the only one wishing for snow.  Sassy's Sanity is longing for Snow in the Tropics so they created some with contact paper, glitter, and miscellaneous white items.  The contact paper allowed them to stick the "snow" to the window creating the illusion of a white winter in 85 Fahrenheit.     Sounds like what I need to do!

Pre-school Play had some sensory fun with their Foam Snowmen.  This snow is messy fun with 0 cold fingers!

How about a little science with your snow play?  Hands on: as we grow investigated "icy roads" the safe way: at home with ice, sand, salt, and some trucks.

If you were featured this week, don't forget to grab your special "featured button."
  


Now, on to this weeks play date! 
It's Playtime is a community and Thursday link-up hosted by:

* Rachele : Messy Kids (That's me!)
* Anna : The Imagination Tree
* Rachel : Quirky Momma
* Jamie : hands on : as we grow
* Jenny : Let the Children Play

How to Play :
* Link up a post about a playful learning experience enjoyed by kids.
* Give us love and pop a button into your post/blog. Invite your readers to the weekly play date!


* Stop by one of our blogs every Thursday and add your link about play. Your link will show up on each of the blogs in the It's Playtime community.
* Each week the playtime hosts will choose favorite posts to feature. (By linking you are giving us permission to use an image and link to you, if featured.)
* Be sure to visit some of the links that catch your eye. Commenting on posts that you find interesting or inspiring is a wonderful way to develop your own playful community.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

30 Days to Hands on Play: Sensory Tub

Although I'm a bit behind blogging wise, our family has been having a great time with the 30 Days to Hands on Play Challenge.  Day 9 was Sensory Tub Play which was convenient for me because that was my plan for the day anyway (they say great minds think alike!)     

Our sensory tub included feed corn, acorns (we gathered on a hike), fake fall leaves, and spiky balls (sweetgum seed pods).  After throwing the "ingredients" into our sensory bowl, I provided the kids with a variety of tools and containers for play.  
 Michael enjoyed experimenting with different sized containers and making a mess on the table.  When I asked him to be careful he said, "I'm making a mess because I'm a little boy!"
Ariel loved the glass jar.  She played with layering the different objects to create "candles".  Here she is explaining her "around the world scents of fall" candle (which I later discovered decorating our bathroom).
 Michael offers me a taste.  

 Michael learns it's more difficult to pour corn using a big bowl then a small scoop.  
 Then he discovered this scoop fits into the container...
 and this scoop made a great drum stick for the table.
 Michael also found the hole at the bottom of one of the scoops was the perfect size for the feed corn.
Ariel arranged everything in the bowl so perfectly, then declared, "I'm making gumbo...it's a type of soup." 
 

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

It's Playtime: Leaves



Here in San Diego, the leaves are finally beginning to change color.  I'm lucky to have some beautiful trees along the street outside my home.  The reds are amazing this year!  So inspired by the changing leaves that I dedicate this week It's Playtime to leaf activities.  Enjoy the colors!  

Play Create Explore used leaves to create Leaf Snowflakes and Leaf Confetti.  And think of all the ways you could use that Confetti!

Homeschooling the Cameron Clan created Leaf Impressions from their backyard treasures and salt dough.  

Happy Little Messes used homemade Modge Podge on their leaves to make them stronger for play and future projects.

  Greencraftingkid used green leaves to create Green Creatures.  Isn't it cute?  

If you were featured this week, don't forget to grab your special "featured button."


Now, on to this weeks play date! 
It's Playtime is a community and Thursday link-up hosted by:

* Rachele : Messy Kids (That's me!)
* Anna : The Imagination Tree
* Rachel : Quirky Momma
* Jamie : hands on : as we grow
* Jenny : Let the Children Play

How to Play :
* Link up a post about a playful learning experience enjoyed by kids.
* Give us love and pop a button into your post/blog. Invite your readers to the weekly play date!


* Stop by one of our blogs every Thursday and add your link about play. Your link will show up on each of the blogs in the It's Playtime community.
* Each week the playtime hosts will choose favorite posts to feature. (By linking you are giving us permission to use an image and link to you, if featured.)
* Be sure to visit some of the links that catch your eye. Commenting on posts that you find interesting or inspiring is a wonderful way to develop your own playful community.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

It's Playtime: A Bit of Science



Halloween may be over but these It's Playtime science activities are good all year around...

Science Sparks shared their post about Making an Eerie Sound Device.  This simple activity can be spooky or just plain silly.  I love the video she posted demonstrating the device!

 Whole Child Creative Curriculum posted this Science Experiment for Preschoolers.  Don't have a rubber glove laying around the house (or school)?  Try using a balloon for a similar effect.

If you were featured this week, don't forget to grab your special "featured button."


Now, on to this weeks play date! 
It's Playtime is a community and Thursday link-up hosted by:

* Rachele : Messy Kids (That's me!)
* Anna : The Imagination Tree
* Rachel : Quirky Momma
* Jamie : hands on : as we grow
* Jenny : Let the Children Play

How to Play :
* Link up a post about a playful learning experience enjoyed by kids.
* Give us love and pop a button into your post/blog. Invite your readers to the weekly play date!


* Stop by one of our blogs every Thursday and add your link about play. Your link will show up on each of the blogs in the It's Playtime community.
* Each week the playtime hosts will choose favorite posts to feature. (By linking you are giving us permission to use an image and link to you, if featured.)
* Be sure to visit some of the links that catch your eye. Commenting on posts that you find interesting or inspiring is a wonderful way to develop your own playful community.

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