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Fun Preschool Activity -- Display Your Treasures
Description: Teaching your preschool children how to display their treasures.
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TEACHING OBJECTIVE/BEFORE YOU BEGIN:
This is a great time of the year to look for treasures of nature in
your neighbourhood. As the season changes so do the items
you find outside. Explain to your preschooler what is happening
as the leaves change colors and fall off the trees, the summer
flowers die and fall flowers begin to bloom, nuts and seeds are
swept off the trees, and the grass begins to turn brown. Look for
the beauty of the season as you help your child collect items to
take home. When you help her make a simple case in which to
display her treasures she will have lots of opportunity to use her
small motor skills. Be sure to point out to her which items are
heavy and which are light. You will be giving her a number of
lessons in science as you do this activity with her.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
A bag or basket
An empty cereal box
Tape
Scissors
Glue
Paper
Markers or crayons
ACTIVITY STEPS:
1. Suggest taking a walk around your neighbourhood to collect
nature's treasures your child might find.
2. Give her a bag or basket to put small items in as you go -
things like pretty colored leaves and flowers or weeds, a special
rock, different kinds of nuts and seeds, feathers, etc.
3. Back home look at each item, talk about each one, decide
where it might have come from, how it could be used to nourish
animals or trees or grass, what people might do with the item,
etc.
4. Using the empty cereal box make a display case for your
treasures - glue the cover shut and cover the box with plain
paper - carefully cut one large side out and reinforce any week
parts with tape inside the empty shell.
5. Ask your child to decorate the sides of the display case with
markers or crayons.
6. Glue your collected treasures inside the box - put the heavier
ones on or near the bottom and the lighter ones higher in the box.
7. When finished place your treasure box in an appropriate place
to show others as they come to your home.
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