Thursday's Teachable Moments: Fine Motor Activity, Handwriting, and Super Science.

Thursday's Teachable Moments

With My Kids:

Cheap But,Really Fun

One Bottle of Dollar Store Hair Gel, 

One Gallon Zip-Loc Bag, add Glitter, if you have it.

Great for Practicing Letters or even just a fun toy.

Isaiah taking a squeeze gel break

Hannah enjoying drawing shapes

Isaiah drawing a circle.

Hannah drawing an I.

Helpful Hint: Don't leave any air in the bag. Or you will have bubbles which will make your letters hard to read.

Super Science Fun

What you need?

A water bottle or sprite bottle,  

1/2 cup vinegar, 2 tablespoons Baking Soda

A Balloon, 

Two Bored Kids

 Pour Vinegar into sprite bottle,  use funnel to get baking soda in balloon.  Place balloon on the top of the sprite bottle without dumping the contents.  Once the balloon is secured, the kids can hold the balloon up, dumping the contents into the bottle. When the baking soda hits the vinegar, first comes fizz, then comes bubbles, followed by the balloon inflating.  My kids were so amazed!

 They were so proud of their balloons!

For the next thirty minutes they played catch, volleyball, and eventually Momma and Baby. Doesn't everything eventually end up in a game of Momma and Baby?

Two Bored Kids + One Awesome Experiment =

Two Very Excited Kids

Hope you have as much fun with your kids as we did.  Warning:  My kids liked the balloon experiment so well, they ask to do it EVERY DAY! Good Luck.