Tie Dye and Sand Art ~ Messy Summer Fun Week 3 2012

During the Summer I hold Messy Summer Fun Classes/Workshops/Camp-days...on Mondays. Each session includes a sensory tub, messy craft, ice sculpture to melt, messy gross motor activity and snack....This week for our Tie Dye and Sand Art Messy Fun, I had 22 Children... however, everyone worked together and things stayed pretty organized...and everyone got to make both projects. 

Some of the kids in their finished shirts...

This week's ice sculpture had dice erasers inside...

 With so many kids this week... the 3 sculptures were melted quickly...

 Playing with the water sensory bin....sea life themed...

 Shaving Cream Balloons...

 Relay/obstacle course/ free for all.... shaving cream balloons, hippity hop, hula hoop...lots of mess!

 Hippity hops are fun...but running is faster and means twice as many balloons...

 It actually stayed pretty organized...

 Sand Art.... half of the kids did Sand Art while the other half did their tie dye shirts... 

then they switched... a very organized chaos....

 The kids had 12 colors to choose from....and chopsticks to make fun designs...

Some of the finished bottles...

 Meanwhile at the Tie Dye table..... 

 Ryleigh working on her shirt...

 Ryleigh went with a giant swirl method....

 3 of the finished shirts.... 

We finished off the day with homemade snowcones for snack.... yummy on a hot day!!!

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Messy Summer Fun Week 2... 2012

It's the return of Messy Summer Fun!!! .... I run a 5 week program during the summer which includes fine motor, gross motor and lots of sensory activities... all of which are MESSY!!! This year I have 23 kids ranging from 9 months to 7 years.... here's what we did this week:

We had an ocean life sensory bin.... with water...

 blue stones from the dollar store... a couple of ice cube trays...

 some fish and dolphins.... some containers....and a sponge for diversity...

Our messy craft this week was ice cube painting- I mixed a little bit of water with some washable paint and froze it in an Hawaiin ice cube tray. This is always a big hit.... and so messy....

 The little ones...showing their messy hands...

 After the paint ice cube melted... the paint remains...

I made ice sculptures with numbers frozen inside..in layers.... 
the kids tried to see who could get to the numbers first....

 Melting the ice sculptures....

 Our relay race this week included hippity hops, water balloons, and the sprinkler...

 The kids had to transfer the water balloons from one bucket through the sprinkler to the other....some made it...and some just threw them... either way... good times...

 Sprinkler....

 For this week's snack we had home made snowcones...

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Messy Summer Fun Week 1 2012

It's the return of Messy Summer Fun!!! .... I run a 5 week program during the summer which includes fine motor, gross motor and lots of sensory activities... all of which are MESSY!!! This year I have 23 kids ranging from 9 months to 7 years.... here's what we did this week:

Jello Sensory Bin...I made two kinds of jello (with some expired jello)... added in some ice cubes to keep it from melting instantaneously..... some beads, ice cube trays and some dishes to play with...

 The kids loved the sticky icky mess!!!

 For our messy craft we made "Elephant Toothpaste"... I got the recipe from here .... In a liter bottle mix a drop of dish soap, a drop of food coloring and 1/2 cup Hydrogen Peroxide (I used the normal 3% and it worked great!)... in a separate cup mix 2 Tablespoons of warm water and 1 Teaspoon of Yeast... then pour the yeast mixture into the bottle....

 The toothpaste slowly climbing out of the bottles...

 Out of the bottle... a big foamy mess...

 This was also a hit... especially as the kids could touch it...

 For our frozen ice sculpture, I themed it with little plastic fish from the dollar store and some pretty beads (and food coloring)... froze it in layers in a big tub... and let the kids try and melt them in the kiddie pools...

 The older kids figured out the process right away....

 Braeden liked playing with the bucket...

 A close up of a half frozen sculpture...

Our gross motor activity was a race/obstacle course/free for all with sponge transfer, shaving cream balloons, lots of water, and the sprinkler...

 Sponge Transfer...

 To make the shaving cream balloons, I used the foam shaving cream in a can (gel is not going to work)... put the balloon up to the nozzle... and they fill really easy....

 Mid Race...

 The shaving cream makes a delightful mess....

 Some of the kids for Messy Summer Fun...

 We finished up the morning with a Pink Lemonade Cupcake snack.... 

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Messy Summer Fun... Week 5.... the finale...

This week was our Messy Summer Fun Finale....and we had 17 kids...17!!!! So Messy...So Fun!!! We did Toilet Paper Mache... I did this last year with Ryleigh and thought...hmmm.. so messy...perfect for a ton of kids... :-)

I covered plastic cups with plastic wrap...and then had the kids (moms) dip toilet paper into a glue/water solution I made... then stick them on the cups...The older kids (ages 4 and up) caught on to this project and were able to do it themselves (wanting to stick their hands into the goo was a different matter)....

The younger kids (ages 14 months- 3) had a different reaction...they were either SO into it...or really appalled at the thought... Can you guess how Braeden felt about it?

Appalled....

Ryleigh loved it...

Since the shaving cream balloons were such a big hit from earlier this summer, I decided to do them again... and water balloons...

Still a kid favorite!

I think pretty much all the kids were covered...

I'm not sure exactly how this happened... but I have an idea... Sorry Kara!!! :-)

For the water activity/ gross motor skills... we set up a bounce house with a water slide...

How many kids can you fit in one of these?

The water-slide was a fun way to end the messy summer...

The water slide resembled sprinklers too much...so Braeden watched from the top of the club house..

Ending the day with Popsicles...

Hopefully I haven't completely scared away the mommies and they will come back next summer!

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To see what others did this week check out Tot School at 1+1+1=1; Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations; Mom 2 lil Posh Divas; Beneath the Rowan Tree and the Weekly Wrap-up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.