Toddler Science: Smell

November 2nd, 2009
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I had wanted to keep up with the weekly Unplugged projects, but through the summer we spent a lot of time outdoors and it fell to the wayside. This last week Meredith wasn’t feeling well and had no interest in going outside, getting dressed, or really doing much besides cuddling on the [...]

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Unplugged Project: Science fun with toddlers

April 24th, 2009
The kids waiting to find out what would be going on

This is another idea I got out of the same book as the transportation project. It’s an experiment most people I know of have done, but I’d never thought of doing it with dish soap before. We mixed vinegar with food colouring and glitter, squirted in a squirt of dish soap [...]

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Unplugged Project: Transportation

April 22nd, 2009

I’ve been following this blog with interest for a long time now, but never had the inspiration to actually participate in any of the weekly Unplugged Projects until now. I can think of lots of fun things to do, but none that might interest an almost two year old. Last week’s [...]

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“Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how.”
~ John Holt

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