As we are ready to welcome spring inspite of temperature ups and downs , we are learning the elements of Spring. Bugs are one kind that we are again going to see a lot. So learning about them a little bit , will help Moha to correlate and of course love them more. We learned about ladybug few days ago. As a starter, the night before the activity, we read the book “The Grouchy Ladybug” by Eric Carle @worldericcarle. The next morning she just loved her play setup because she can relate.
So what we did:
- Sensory bins with rice, flowers, leaves and lady bugs. Lots of free play. She pretended the lady bugs are eating aphids from the leaves.
- We made few lady bugs with the papers. The papers are chosen as red, yellow, orange to let her know that ladybugs can be of different colors. I don’t have pics for it because we made them at different time.
- We matched the uppercase and lowercase letters from a sticker page to construct “LADYBUG”
- During sensory play, she was narrating the story “The Grouchy Ladybug” which I was so happy to listen. While narrating she took two ladybugs and called them “this is the friendly ladybug and this is grouchy one” and played as per story narration.
- We talked about the ladybugs who were present in our mini garden 🪴 last summer and when they are going to come back again.
- The big success of a play setup to me is, when My little one keeps coming back to the table several times a day and Keeps playing for sometime on her own. So this setup was a big success.
Don’t forget to check our special guest visited last year. Eagerly waiting for her visit this year too. ❤️🥰
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We played this setup when Moha was 31months old.
Tales of a Messy Mother 