Birthday Party  

Let’s celebrate and have a party just because! This is such a fun and open invitation on to create inspired by birthdays.

 
In your playtray add different festive coloured sensory bin fillers and in the compartments add gems, cupcake liners, pom poms, sprinkles, candles, ribbon, etc. Invite children to make a birthday cake and cupcakes to celebrate with the materials offered!  

Can you help save the animals from the oil spill? 

An oil spill is a form of pollution - harmful or poisonous things that people put into the environment. Oil spills usually happen in the ocean, but oil can spill on land as well. These spills cause many devastating effects - mainly to plants and animals     This small world allows children to explore the effects of an oil spill on an ocean ecosystem!

Fill your PlayTray with water and then design your ocean ecosystem with plant and animals you would find in the ocean!   Then mix cocoa powder with oil to create a murky oil mixture to mimic an oil spill. Then add cut up plastics to add to your floating oil spill to represent the plastic waste we find in the ocean. Then in the compartments add clean water, dawn dish soap, a toothbrush, tweezers and pipettes for children to explore and help the ocean with!

This activity has a chance to make a lasting impact on how we have to keep our water clean! To help support the learning watch the dawn dish soap commercial about using soap to help remove oil and try it with your animals.  

Polar Playdough Tracks Investigation  

Can you investigate the polar animal tracks on the tundra? Who made those tracks? This is such a fun invitation for children to explore different footprints   Little ones will love to see the close-up imprints of the footprints and trying to guess which animal leaves tracks!

On your playtray lid roll out some blue and white playdough and sprinkle snow around the dough, acrylic ice rocks, polar scenery stones, ice scene blocks and more to create your polar icy tundra! Then add your polar footprint stones for your little learners to imprint

 
Ways to extend the play:
-Read the book and compare the tracks!
-What do you notice about each animals tracks? Are any of them similar?
-Can you match animals to the tracks?
-Can you try drawing the different tracks?

Let's Thread & Create!

Can you embroider a pattern or design in the burlap?   This activity is such a fun and easy way to be creative and build fine motor skills!

In a Playtray add your different coloured embroidery thread and plastic lacing needles.   Then offer burlap for children to thread and create on!

Free the Hearts

Can your child use the tweezers to free the hearts? This activity is a fun and easy way for children to build fine motor skills as they play!

Simply pour valentine's themed rainbow rice in a PlayTray and add your hearts! Once ready take Mavalus tape and add it all over the tray to create a web. Then offer tweezers for children to free the hearts

Ways to extend the play:
-Count how many hearts you free
-Create a heart pattern
-Match the coloured hearts of the same together

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