-Sky Scrapers-
Visit www.factmonster.com to learn some great things about the skyscrapers in the world as well as see pictures! Return to Calendar page
-The Perfect Strawberry-
Visit your local library and check out the book "The Little Mouse, the Strawberry, and the Big, Hungry Bear" by Don Wood and read it with a parent or by yourself. Then use the Story Time Felts pieces to tell the story again from memory. Use the extra papers that come with the sets to tell other stories with the same pieces or make up a story of your own.
To get your own "The Perfect Strawberry" Story Time Felts set visit our product pages.
-Who Ate the Food?-
Visit your local library and check out the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle and read it with a parent or by yourself. Then use the Story Time Felts pieces to tell the story again from memory. Use the extra papers that come with the sets to tell other stories with the same pieces or make up a story of your own.
To get your own "Who Ate the Food?" Story Time Felts set visit our product pages.
-Bisquick Paint-
NOT to eat!!
You will need:
-1/3 cup bisquick
-1/4 cup salt
-1/4 cup water
-2 T tempra powder (any color)
-Glitter (optional)
Mix Bisquick, salt, water, and tempra powder until smooth. Pour into bottles with narrow openings. Paint on paper or cardboard. Sprinkle immediately with glitter if desired.
* Tip -Save old ketchup and mustard bottles. They make perfect squeezable bottles.
- recipe from: Betty Crocker's Bisquick cookbook, by General mills.
-Play Dough-
NOT to eat !!
You will need:
-4 cups flour
-1 cup iodized salt
-1 3/4 cups warm water
-food coloring or paint powder
Mix the above ingredients together in a large bowl and knead for 10 minutes. If you want to make hard-baked figures, just bake at 300 degrees until the dough is hard. You can also air dry for a few days and it will become hard. Paint and varnish if you like. Store dough in plastic wrap or in airtight container.
Idea from the book "365 Afterschool Activities, TV-free fun anytime for kids ages 7-12," by Shella Ellison and Judith Gray, pg 60.
-Elephants-
-Elephants stomp when they walk.
-Sometimes baby elephants lie down to sleep.
-Elephants weigh 10,000 pounds. It would take 250 students to add up to 10,000 pounds.
-The daddy elephants leave the herd when they are 12 years old.
-They can run 24mph for short distances.
Also visit www.indianchild.com to learn more great things about elephants.
<-Fishy Tales-
Visit your local library and check out the book "Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister and read it with a parent or by yourself. Then use the Story Time Felts pieces to tell the story again from memory. Use the extra papers that come with the sets to tell other stories with the same pieces or make up a story of your own.
To get your own "Fishy Tales" Story Time Felts set visit Our product pages.
-Tornado in a Bottle-
You will need:
-2 clear plastic large soda bottles
-tape
-water
-food coloring
Fill one of the bottles 3/4 full of water. Add a couple of drops of food coloring. Invert the other bottle so that it sits on top of the first bottle with the openings together. Wind the tape tightly around the necks of the bottles so that no water can leak out. The top bottle now should be securely balanced on top of the bottom bottle. Now, hold the bottles with 2 hands and swirl the water around. Turn upside down and watch what happens.
Note: Tornadoes can sometimes produce winds of 250 miles per hour. A water spout tornado is a tornado over water and a dust devil is a tornado over sand in the desert.
Idea from the book "365 Afterschool Activities, TV-free fun anytime for kids ages 7-12," by Shella Ellison and Judith Gray, pg 294