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Matching Coloured Egg Cards
Matching coloured egg cards. We started out by matching plastic eggs to the coloured egg cards. This didn’t really get Derek attention. We then switched to just matching the cards and this went better. Needed to give Derek some help in finding the card that […]
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Plastic Eggs & Spoon – Water Play
Practiced scooping the eggs into the tray. Derek then discovered he could open the eggs and fill them with water and the water will pour out the little holes. Also we noticed that the eggs with water are heavier and harder to scoop up. I […]
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Painting A Bird House
Bird house built courtesy of OPA. Derek couldn’t stop asking about the bird house as he knew we were going to be painting the bird house today. Derek enjoyed painting the bird house. He kept talking about the bird that may live there and how […]
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Ice Cube – Colour Mixing
I kind of messed up by putting the wrong ice cube into the wrong container of water. Also the colours didn’t turn out all that good. It’s a pretty cool activity if everything goes properly so do give it a try. Derek liked playing with […]
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Ice Cube – Painting
Mix water and paint and freeze in ice cube trays. Once frozen paint using two primary colours and as the paint cubes melt the colours will mix. This didn’t quite go as planned. The paint cubes didn’t melt as fast as I was expecting so […]
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Hand Print – Colour Mixing
Mixing primary colours to make secondary colours. Paint your child’s hand a primary colour and make a hand print. Paint other hand a different colour and make a hand print. Add more paint to hands, rub them together creating a new colour and make hand […]
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Hidden Colour – Science
Hide some food colouring under baking soda and let you little scientist find them by using vinegar. Though this wasn’t a long activity, Derek enjoyed it and liked seeing what happened. It was a bit slow using the spoon. We abandoned the spoon and just […]
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Colour Collage
Pick a coloured paper and glue items and glitter of chosen colour onto the paper. Let dry and continue if interest allows. Derek wasn’t very interested in today’s activity. He needed some encouragement to continue and add more to his picture and didn’t want to […]
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Colour Sorting Sensory
Fill a bin with items of different colours. Put stickers on an ice cube tray or egg carton and then sort the items by colour. The colour sorting part itself didn’t last long but Derek ended up having more fun just randomly playing with the […]
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Coffee Filter – Butterfly
Derek liked colouring the coffee filters. He did have some trouble using the spray bottle on his own as well as twisting the pipe cleaner but overall this was a fun craft and Derek likes the end result. (Tip: lots of colour and only a […]