Examples of Prompts/Activities for Water, Sand, and Other Materials |
Digging: bury items in sand to be uncovered (perhaps relating to a current theme) such as plastic dinosaurs, insects, worms, coins, plastic “jewels,” small mirrors or laminated photos of the children |
Washing: wash baby dolls, small cars, dishes, toys |
Molding: provide molds of different kinds for damp/wet sand, dirt, or other modeling materials |
Fishing: bamboo poles with magnet attached to end of string, paper clips and small paper or rubber fish with paper clips attached |
Road building: sand or dirt-based materials, small vehicles |
Challenges: use tongs or giant plastic tweezers to pick up different sized colored pom-poms and put them in plastic tubs or jars |