Happy Friday! This week, we took a trip to Washington Market Park, celebrated Halloween, and made scented play dough!
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Washington Market Park
On Monday, we took a trip to the park! When we arrived, the children immediately noticed the carved pumpkins and decorated skeletons. When we made our way to the field, the children were interested in running, jumping, and climbing on the stacks of hay!
Halloween
On Thursday, we celebrated Halloween with a school wide parade and classroom party! Thank you to everyone for your support and participation - it was so much fun and the costumes looked amazing!
Play Dough
On Friday, we made pumpkin spice play dough!
The children took turns smelling and and touching each ingredient, taking guesses as to what they thought it could be. We mixed it up, let it cool, then explored our creation! The children each felt the play dough, noting that it felt “warm” and “soft.”
2 cups AP flour
2 tbsps coconut oil
1/2 cup salt
2 tbsps cream of tartar
1-1.5 cups hot water
Turmeric for color
Pumpkin pie spice
1) Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar, and oil in a large mixing bowl.
2) Add turmeric to hot water. Mix with dry ingredients.
3) Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky, combined dough.
4) Allow it to cool down then take it out of the bowl and knead vigorously for a couple of minutes until all of the stickiness is gone.
After the play dough cooled, we explored it with rollers and hammers.
Other activities this week included:
Finishing Halloween costumes
Lemon & lime observational painting
Apple stamping
Celebrating Diwali
Painting with spoons
Making jack-o-lanterns
Have a great weekend!