Kindergarten Play Groups

We are right in the middle of admissions season here at Laguna Blanca. For this year’s play group, we decided to switch up the theme from bears to dinosaurs! I found some great activities that use the Smart Board that were sure to engage the visiting pre-schoolers. We also decided to give the visitors a little take-away gift.  My class made a dinosaur egg from Ivory soap for each of the littles to take home! We first shaved the soap with a cheese grater. Then the students chose a small dinosaur figurine and molded the soap shavings around it. Water helped keep the shavings together, and after squeezing and rolling the shavings around the dinosaur, an egg was created! What a fun and messy, yet clean, project!

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(I missed the photo-op at school, so my Kindergartener made one at home for me to share.)

So far I have heard nothing but rave reviews.  One mom contacted me and said her daughter had never washed her hands so frequently in a day….must have been a dozen times. Hand washing for this little girl was usually an unnecessary and laborious task! Another mom said her son came home and immediately got into the bathtub to start making the soap egg dissolve with the hopes of finding the baby dinosaur.  Sounds like good, clean fun! (Makes me think of Mrs. Pigglewiggle.…anyone out there remember the won’t take a bath cure? These dinosaur eggs would surely solve that!)