Summer is here and living in the desert water play is a VERY big part of our outdoor activities. Water Play is fun, but important for so many reasons!! Check out this great post from Mother Goose Time about why children need water play :)
Water play can be free play where you give the kiddos some toys and a table full of water... and that's it! Let their imaginations and curiosity take it from there :) Here are a few of my Kiddie Korner littles in free-play at a summer bash event we went to with our local FCC group. They had nets, cups, squirt toys, etc in the water tables and the kids had a blast playing!
Other water play activities can be lesson based and directed. Here was a super simple water play activity I used during our Bees and Butterflies module. I used some simple pipettes for the kids to use to transfer water. The lesson was based on how bees and butterflies get nectar out of a flower. They use their proboscis (long tube like piece of an insects mouth used for sucking liquid)! The kids got to suck water up into the pipette just like a bee :)
For some extra fun during the activity I had two separate colors for the kids to mix into their cups. They thought it was awesome who the yellow and blue made green!
HOW DO YOU STAY COOL IN THE SUMMER?!
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