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Today in the twos creative classroom the twos played a parachute game for their physical movement. Since this week our theme was Circus the twos bounced a bear in the parachute. Everyone loved doing this activity. They had so much fun. Everyone grabbed a handle and bounced the bear up and down in the parachute. Whenever the bear fell out they always put it back in the parachute. The older and younger twos really loved it! There was only one younger two that didn't really stay playing the parachute game very long. I think it was because all the children were playing with the parachute instead of just him playing with the parachute. Because when we're in the muscle room at recess he usually loves playing in the parachute. Pretending he's napping under it, sitting on it, and playing peek a boo. Usually when were in the muscle room he is usually the only on that likes to play with it, the rest of the older ones play with each other or other toys. But when were bouncing something on the parachute all the children join in. It was a lot of fun. I really liked that the blog also suggested that the object that you bounce in the middle of the parachute would go with your theme for the week. I think the children would have a lot of fun bouncing a ball in the middle of the parachute too. The blog was called Nurture Store Creative Kids Learning: Parachute Games Active Play for Creative Kids

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Today in the crazy twos creative classroom the children pretended to draw pictures on notes to their friends and put them into the mail bag and then separate the drawings into the separate mail bags for each of the children of my class. All the children really enjoyed coloring on their own mail bag. Some of more then others. The older twos liked drawing on a note for their friend and then putting stickers on their note to their friend. They really liked telling me who they wanted to give their notes to. Some of them surprised me of who they wanted to give their note to. Like Harper who is a little girl who is outspoken wanted to give a boy whose rather quite in class a note. The younger ones mostly wanted to give their notes to themselves. I think the best part of this dramatic play activity they liked was putting the stickers on the notes. I tried with one older two to get them to put their note in an envelope but they just became frustrated with it, so we just decided to write to: and from:. one of my older twos was the only one that wanted to separate the notes into the separate mail bag. I even tried to put a blue mail carrier hat on some of the children that said they wanted to but they just took off the outfit and went to play. I was surprised how long they wanted to do this activity. I loved that it was an extension of dramatic play. They drew pictures on their mail bags, notes to their friends, put stickers on their notes for their friends for about 3 0 minutes. The blog that I took this activity from looked like they did it with ages 3 to 4 and I was hesitate to do the activity with my class but they seemed like they enjoyed it. The older twos much more then the younger ones. I would love to do this more in my classroom. The blog was Here Come The Girls. The activity was the Post Office.

Hello, Today in my twos creative classroom we painted with paint ice cubes. The older and younger ones really enjoyed it. I caught my youngest two trying to eat the ice the paint cube because I guess he thought it was a popsicle. He also liked this art because you didn't have to get dirty with paint. He liked using the stick to paint and mix the colors. My older twos liked using all the different colors. It was a great activity to show them if you mix two different colors they make a whole new color. One of the girls mixed blue and red together and it made purple. Then since she liked that so much she mixed red and yellow together and together it made orange, which one of my oldest boys pointed out. The children liked using the stick with the paint cube in different ways. Some swirled the paint, some made dots. They really liked this art activity. From letting the hot water warm up the paint to washing the paint out of the ice cube trays and throwing away the sticks. I have to say a very easy clean up after such a fun, somewhat messy activity. This activity would also be great for a science activity. Since the children are so use to seeing paint in a liquid form instead of a sold they would be taught on how things can be turned into a solid or a liquid.