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Tour the world by flower: Pennsylvania and Florida

We teamed up with Playground Parkbench for this fun flower craft series! I am originally from central Pennsylvania, and I moved to central Florida in 1990. So we decided to take on both Pennsylvania and Florida for this series!

State flower for Pennsylvania Mountain Laurel Mountain Laurel Kalmia latiflolia The State Flower is the Mountain Laurel, as enacted by the General Assembly on May 5, 1933. The mountain laurel is in full bloom in mid-June, when Pennsylvania's woodlands are filled with its distinctive pink flower.





 
State Flower for Florida Orange Blossom Orange Blossom Citrus sinensis The orange blossom was designated State Flower by Concurrent Resolution Nov. 15, 1909 Legislature. It is one of the most fragrant flowers in Florida. Millions of these white flowers perfume the atmosphere throughout central and south Florida during orange blossom time.

Swinging Motion Probability on the light table

Montessori inspired educational ideas using plates

Painting to Mozart

Just a fun little painting project. I turned on some Mozart and had them put one dot of each color paint all over the page. Then I had them begin painting with long lines and connecting to the dots as they wanted to.

I love how they turned out!!  Parker's is a free flowing abstract and Graham's turned out to be animated fruit friends. - strawberry, banana, pear.

The paints are from discount school supply, trays from oriental trading.

Still life arrangement on the light table

Montessori Inspired Counting

Nature Texture Collages with paper and stickers

Building and Designing on the light table

building and designing with light

Here are a few fun arrangements that have been on the light table recently!

I cut out these birds from Ikea place mats, and cut some shapes from laminated cello sheets.

The butterflies were hand drawn with sharpie markers on overhead projector transparency. 

Birds and Butterflies

Homeschool Room and Indoor Play Environment Update 2014

Mickey Mouse on the light table

This was a really fun project to make!!  

I laminated cello sheets and then used a Mickey Mouse punch to make a bunch of Mickey's for the light table! Graham and Parker love them!!

They are a really fun addition to our light table accessories, nice and sturdy too!

 I also laminated a few cellophane treat bags from the dollar tree and use the Mickey Mouse punch on them too.  You can see them in the pics, they are the Christmas patterned ones.

Exploring them on the light table....

Homeschool Room and Indoor Play Environment Tour

Light and Learning

Play, love, learn, create

A few of the activities Graham and Parker have done lately.....

light table lacing beads

Arctic Penguin Habitat on the light table

Counting and Designing

This week I wanted to highlight my Twins' masterpiece on the light table.  I set out a few light table manipulatives and some light table numbers.  They counted out amounts of various manipulatives in accordance to the numbers that were on their light table.  They had a really fun festive time while learning! Graham got really into it. Once they were done counting, they played with the manipulatives. Graham said his was designed for Christmas! They had so much fun for this, I love seeing what they do with their light table manipulatives. We have been collecting for two years now and they have a great collection for the light table!