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Explore Together (indoors): Revisit Our Bean Plants

Have children return to their bean plants to explore and record changes in the plants.

Explore Together (indoors): Rolling Around

Challenge children to build a tube trackway and send a marble down the entire length of the trackway. Encourage children to draw or write to record their observations.

Explore Together (indoors): Rolling on Different Surfaces

Explore how different floor surfaces affect how far a ball travels after leaving a ramp. Divide the group onto different surfaces to see on which the ball will go farthest.

Explore Together (indoors): Rubber Band Guitars

Help children place a rubber band around boxes, bread pans, etc. to make “rubber band guitars.” Have them explore making sounds with rubber bands.

Explore Together (indoors): Rubber Band Music

Encourage children to continue their exploration of sound by plucking on rubber bands and changing the pitch by stretching the rubber band.

Explore Together (indoors): Rubber Band Sounds

Have children continue exploring making sounds with rubber bands. Ask children to describe what they see when they pluck the rubber band.  Introduce the word vibrate.

Explore Together (indoors): Scarf Dance

Provide materials such as scarves, feathers, or strips of construction paper and have children move to music using these materials.

Explore Together (indoors): Shades of Red

Have children make shades of the color red using food coloring and water.

Explore Together (indoors): Shake and Listen

Have children choose materials and containers to explore making sounds. Challenge children to make loud and soft sounds with the shakers.

Explore Together (indoors): Skin Colors

Have children explore and discuss different colors of crayons and paints that resemble different colors of skin.

Explore Together (indoors): Sort Seeds and More Seeds

Have children identify which fruit or vegetable seeds come from. Have them sort the seeds in different ways.

Explore Together (indoors): Sorting Colors

Have children work together to sort crayons into different color groups.

Explore Together (indoors): Squishes of Color

Have children mix paints in clear sealable bags to observe how light and dark shades of a color are mixed.

Explore Together (indoors): Steeper and Steeper

Have children explore how the steepness of a ramp will affect how far a ball travels. Use two ramps with one being steeper than the other.

Explore Together (indoors): Talking Through Tubes

Invite children to explore talking through tubes. Guide children to talk or sing without the tube first, then with the tube to compare the sounds.

Explore Together (indoors): Tap and Scrape Sounds

Invite children to select from a set of materials to make and describe tap and scrape sounds. 

Explore Together (indoors): Taste and Compare

Have children compare plant foods by having them taste, smell, feel, and look at fruits and vegetables.   

Explore Together (indoors): The Huff and Puff Test

Build straw, stick, and brick houses and try to blow them over. Encourage children to document their observations by drawing, writing, or dictating to you.

Explore Together (indoors): Using Building Materials

Allow children to freely explore the building materials. Invite them to make different structures they have learned about.  

Explore Together (indoors): Vary the Obstacles

Children continue to explore ramps and objects that can be obstacles. Have children experiment with using different objects to use as obstacles.

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