Dino Fun Sensory Tub

 

We put  together our  Dinosaur Sensory tub earlier today. It is loaded with all types of dino fun! It includes river rocks for the filler, so it is definitely our heaviest sensory tub yet! There are 4 different wooden dinosaurs that I painted, different dinosaurs in three different sizes, a wooden painted volcano, a wooden painted tree and bush, a glow in the dark dinosaur skeleton, plastic shrubbery, a T-Rex hat, artifact brushes (paint brushes), dinosaur eggs, and more! We also included some Dinosaur Fossils that we made out of coffee grinds and coffee (click here to make your own),a dinsoaur bone we made (click here to make your own),  and 2 different types of dinosaur eggs that we made (click here to make some).  We had a lot of fun putting this together and making the different items to go along with this!

Let's Make Dinosaur Eggs!!!

 

My kids and I had a blast making dinosaur eggs! These were fun, easy, and inexpensive to make. We made 2 different types of dinosaur eggs, both worked great, but this is the messier recipe of the two.

 

 You need: 1 1/4 cup dirt, 1 1/4 cup flour, 3/4 cup salt, 1/2 cup sand, water, and plastic dinosaurs.

 

 

 

Combine all of the ingredients together in a bowl.  Form eggs around little plastic dinosaurs. Let the eggs dry out and harden. Dry time depends on the humidity and weather conditions. Our eggs took days to dry out completely.

 

After they were completely dried out, I gave my kids some tools and let them have at it!

Easy Peasy Dinosaur Bones

 

Check out our dinosaur bones! These were so simple and fun to make! My little guy really enjoyed making these for our dinosaur sensory tote.

 

 

To make these, I mixed some Elmer's School glue with water and cut out bone shapes out of cardstock.

We crumbled small pieces of toilet, soaked them in the glue solution, and squeezed them to release the excess water.

 

We then placed the pieces on the cardstock. 

 

When we were finished we let them air dry. When they dry, they dry hard like a paper mache. Dry time depends on the weather and the humidity, ours took about 4 days to dry out completely and harden.

Stone Soup Felt Story

I made this felt story to go along with the book Stone Soup. Stone Soup is an old story that shows the importance of cooperation. The story is about a traveler that goes to a village looking for food and none of the villagers are willing to share their food because the each only have one type of vegetable or food. Using his "magic" stone, he shows them how to work together and make a gigantic pot of soup that will feed the entire village.  I used templates from DTLK that can be found here.

Make Your Own Jolly Rancher Lollipops!!

 

We had a ton of fun making Jolly Rancher Lollipops! My oldest loves Jolly Ranchers and my youngest is dying to try one, but I am afraid he will choke on one... I thought this would be a great way for us to have some fun and both children could enjoy some Jolly Ranchers. My kids enjoyed mixing and matching and creating all types of flavor combinations.

All you need is:

• JOLLY RANCHER Hard Candy
• Parchment Paper
• Lollipop Sticks

Instructions:

• 1. Preheat oven to 225°F.
• 2. Place three candies side-by-side on parchment paper.
• 3. Bake 5-6 minutes.
• 4. Remove from oven.
• 5. While lollipop is still warm, press stick halfway through the pop.
• 6. Twist slightly to mold candy around the stick.
• 7. Cool completely.

 

They were definitely a hit!

My little guy was in heaven!

 

 

My oldest son's favorite was the one he made of all green apple JOLLY RANCHERS.

 

Under the Sea Felt Fish Tank

This was our summer project last year, we just set it up again and are planning to continue to add to  it this summer. We started out with a few felt fish that we made and added a new fish, plant, or sea animal each week. It was a family project, the kids picked out a fish, my husband or I made the fish out of felt and then we learned a little bit about the fish before we added it to out felt tank. So far, we have a shark, angel fish, parrot fish, octopus, clown fish, lobster, sting ray, blue crab, sea turtle, sea horse, whale, and some others. This was a fun and educational project, my kids are looking forward to adding to it again, as am I. This also goes well with our Under the Water tote that I am putting together for July.

The Itsy Bitsy Spider Felt Story

 

 

The itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the waterspout
Down came the rain
And washed the spider out
Out came the sun
And dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the spout again