Spaghetti painting is the perfect art activity for a rainy May long weekend, and it’s even more fun when you pretend the spaghetti are wriggly worms :). This activity is also great for strengthening those fine-motor muscles in your little ones’ hands.
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I love when my bugs get out the felt board to play on a rainy day. It makes for a great quiet-time activity, and it keeps them occupied for a good twenty minutes. I especially like felt board activities because it encourages hand-eye coordination, fine-motor development, problem solving and spatial awareness (by experimenting with how the felt pieces fit together to form a complete picture), and story telling.
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With Halloween just days away, I thought it would be fun for the boys to conduct a couple of science experiments starring… GUMMY WORMS!
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I am still trying to absorb the devastating affects this flood is having on our city of Calgary and in southern Alberta. Seeing the bleak pictures and aerial images of homes and familiar restaurants, shops and pubs submerged in murky water, roads and bridges being consumed and washed out, and our beloved zoo engulfed in a muddy, brown lake has been absolutely surreal. Luckily, our home is on high ground, away from the rivers, but the sadness I feel for my city and the surrounding areas is overwhelming. Albertans are kind, compassionate, resilient, and hardworking, so there is no question we will get through this together. As a Calgarian, I am so proud and grateful to all of the emergency response workers, and to our dedicated mayor, Naheed Nenshi, for their outstanding and tireless efforts to keep our fellow Calgarians safe and cared for. THANK YOU!
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A few weeks ago we received our Painted Lady Butterfly kit. It’s been very interesting and exciting to watch our tiny caterpillars grow, spin their chrysalis’, and emerge as beautiful orange and black butterflies! I’m so glad I decided to do this with my boys. They both really enjoyed observing and learning about the life-cycle of a butterfly and, because of this hands-on experience, M has now adopted a few new scientific words into his vocabulary: camouflage, proboscis, and metamorphosis; pretty impressive, not to mention a mouthful, for a three-year-old!
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Since our caterpillars arrived a week ago, they’ve been very busy eating and growing. It won’t be long now until they spin their chrysalis’ and transform into lovely Painted Lady butterflies!
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