Ever wonder how to interact while learning with your kids? How to enjoy those sponge-like preschool brains, we do a weekly learning theme with short activities each day. It is so easy to get stuck in the rut of telling our kids to go outside or go play with their trucks. We are striving to do an activity with them each day. Come join us! This is our list of preschool activities we came up with to learn about the earth:

1) Go on a nature hike and identify non-living things, living things and signs of life (ex: dirt, ants and an ant hill or water, leaves and broken twig, etc.)
2) Get a bag of topsoil and bury items in it.
3) Find rocks… paint rocks. Add squiggly eyes and some hair and you can make paperweight creatures.
4) Do a soil analysis. Find out how much sand, pebbles, clay, silt and soil is in your “dirt”.
5) Bury food for a week in your yard. Dig it up and see what happened to it.
6) Make garden stones out of plaster/concrete.
7) Sculpt a cup or box out of clay.
8) Make dirt pudding. Have fun burying candy bugs into the dirt.
9) Make “Dirty” play dough. Brown play dough with glitter specks (rock) in it – my kids loved it!
10) Pick-up garbage in a park, along a quiet street or on a trail.
11) Make a terrarium (mini-world in a bottle).
12) Make Dirt-art. Use card stock and draw an image with glue (we did the letter D) and pour dirt over the picture to make the “d.”