Preschool at Home Experiences Week 2, activity 1 Home-made paint from vegetable scraps Place your chopped plant ingredients into a small saucepan and cover with twice as much water as fruit or vegetable. Place over medium heat and bring to a simmer for one hour. Turn off the heat and let the water return to room temperature. When cooled, pour through a strainer and into a mixing bowl. Then funnel your new dye into a glass jar. Bonus: compost the leftover scraps! Learning outcomes Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating. Key Concepts Observation, investigation and hypothesising and experimenting with mathematic concepts such as problem solving, measurements, quantity and colour recognition. Resources Pot, water, vegetable scraps, strainer, glass jar, paintbrush and paper. Read this article for more details. Questions to ask: What colour paint do you think this vegetable will make? What other things can you think of that are the same colour as this? What colour do you think it will make if we mix these two colours together?
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Preschool at Home Experiences
Week 2, activity 1
Home-made paint from vegetable scraps Place your chopped plant ingredients into a small saucepan and
cover with twice as much water as fruit or vegetable. Place over
medium heat and bring to a simmer for one hour. Turn off the heat
and let the water return to room temperature. When cooled, pour
through a strainer and into a mixing bowl. Then funnel your new
dye into a glass jar. Bonus: compost the leftover scraps! Learning outcomes Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem
solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and
investigating.
Key Concepts Observation, investigation and hypothesising and
experimenting with mathematic concepts such as problem
solving, measurements, quantity and colour recognition.
Let's move: time for some exercise If you have room inside, blow up a balloon and either with your
hand or a wooden spoon see how long you can keep your balloon
in the air. You can count how many times you hit the balloon
before it touches the ground or time yourself. For outside, if you
have a soft or light weight ball you can do the same thing, but
maybe try with a tennis racket or small paddle if you have one
otherwise just try hitting it up with your hand. Get an adult or
sibling to join – the first one to let the balloon hit the ground is out. Learning outcomes Children have a strong sense of wellbeing. Children take increasing
responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.
Key Concepts This activity encourages concentration, balance, counting,
fitness.
Resources A balloon blown up for inside or a soft
light weight ball for outside.
Tennis racket (optional)
Wooden spoon (optional)
Small Paddle
(optional)
Questions to ask:
How many times did you keep the
balloon in the air?
Let's try doing it knelling down or
sitting down, is it easier or harder?
Preschool at Home Experiences
Week 2, activity 12
Commotion in the ocean Try this craft activity to create a giant jelly fish.
Using the paper plate as the “body’, children can decorate it using
coloured textas or paint. Using tape, fix the tentacles to the
underside of the plate. You might like to make a variety of jelly fish
in different colours and sizes and hang them with a piece of string. Learning outcomes Children view and listen to printed, visual and multimedia texts and
respond with relevant comments and/or questions. They use
representations from art to share and project meaning.
Key Concepts Print and text concepts, constructing meaning through art,