Acorn Sensory Bottle

We've gathered real acorns to explore and crafted our own in all the acorn activities for kids we've tried over the years! This autumn season we made an acorn discovery bottle that is perfect for sensory play outside or on the light table. 

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Oil and Water on the Light Table

Oil and water are the perfect experiment for kids! It's so pretty it's almost mesmerizing so we decided to try this process on the light table.

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3D Shapes on the Light Table

We explored 3D shapes by constructing with transparent blocks on the light table. The colors and angles were highlighted as the kids turned and studied the different faces and properties. What a playful and colorful way to introduce a math concept!

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Nursery Rhyme Retelling Slides on the Light Table

Nursery rhymes are a great way to practice story sequencing which is an important reading skill. We used recycled materials to create our own retelling slides for familiar nursery rhymes that we know and love. 

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Fish Color Matching on the Light Table

Color matching is one of the pre-cursor skills to sorting items by different attributes. It's a vital early math skill for preschoolers! We made color sorting extra fun by creating an under the sea theme on the light table! Our kids matched the scales to the fish in this colorful game.

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Chameleon Color Changing Activity for A Color of His Own

We are huge fans of Leo Lionni! We created a fun and interactive way to learn about colors using the chameleon in the book A Color of His Own!

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Airplane Color Sorting on the Light Table

Our toddler loves airplanes so we set up a quick color matching activity on the light table! This is perfect for a preschool transportation theme! 

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Bottle Cap Hundred Chart

A Hundred Chart is a fantastic  tool for children to naturally discover patterns in math. We recycled bottle caps to create a loose parts math invitation for the light table!

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Five Green and Speckled Frogs Game

Five Green and Speckled Frogs is a cute preschool song that lends itself to lots of math learning. We added a few props to inspire pretend play with fine motor skills!

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Hundred Chart Patterns on the Light Table

During any creative play with math manipulatives patterns will emerge. We put a hundred chart on our light table to explore numeric patterns in a colorful way!

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New Year's Water Beads Play for Kids

We decided to celebrate New Year's Eve with the kids a bit early since we aren't sure if they will stay awake until midnight! But if your kids do or even to celebrate before or after the ball drops here is a beautiful fine motor activity to celebrate the new year.

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Retelling The Mitten on the Light Table

We love Jan Brett's book The Mitten so we took the retelling of this classic story to the light table!

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Christmas Lights on the Light Table

We love simple invitations to explore with vibrant and beautiful colors! For this holiday themed fine motor activity we mixed colors to create festive Christmas lights on the light table.

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Snowflake Crafts and Activities for Kids

We love snowflake crafts and activities because you can make them before the holidays but enjoy them long after the other decorations are packed away! You'll love these ideas to entertain your kids as they learn about frozen fractals.

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Scoop and Pour Serving Practice on the Light Table

We set up a fun practical life invitation to play on the light table. Our kids loved practicing self serving skills such as scooping and pouring!

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Money Slime

We love making slime! For this math activity for our kids we added coins to the slime to introduce the concept of money. Wait until you see how it looks on the light table! 

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Sensory Spider Hatching for Kids

We watched spiders emerge from totally cool and creepy "egg sacs" for sensory and fine motor fun spider hatching!

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Sorting Skeletons on the Light Table

Holiday themed activities are motivating for kids and easy to set up. As an engaging Halloween math activity we sorted skeletons on the light table!

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Five Little Pumpkins on the Light Table

Five Little Pumpkins is a favorite Halloween poem to retell in our house! We've already shared our Fine Motor Five Little Pumpkins so for this activity we used recycled materials to make dry erase jack-o-lanterns for the light table.

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Halloween Shapes on the Light Table

Get into the spirit of Halloween with fine motor sensory play in the light table! These sticky clings are the perfect reusable material for endless not so creepy scenes.

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