Happy Acorn Ramp Play For Toddlers

It is straight off officially Fall where nosotros alive in addition to my preschooler in addition to I had a "date" on Sabbatum afternoon to acquire acorn hunting at a local park. Have yous always tried that before? Usually I grab imitation acorns at the arts and crafts store, merely nosotros remembered that the common has an awesome tree that drops acorns, thence nosotros constitute a dozen or to a greater extent than in addition to brought them abode to purpose this calendar week for projects!

We honey acorn crafts in addition to activities, peculiarly acorn suncatchers in addition to acorn alphabet matching. This calendar week for our Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids nosotros are sharing several children's books close acorns in addition to squirrels in addition to lots of crafts in addition to activities!

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This calendar week for our acorn themed activeness nosotros are doing some ACORN RAMP PLAY!

MATERIALS NEEDED FOR ACORN RAMP PLAY

acorns
bowl
large slice of cardboard
tape
large slice of easel paper

First nosotros hunted for acorns.

Next, nosotros prepared our ramp. We used a bit box in addition to and thence nosotros flattened it in addition to taped it to brand a ramp. Next, nosotros taped white newspaper on transcend of the ramp thence that the kids could run across the acorns to a greater extent than clearly. Brown in addition to light-green acorns rolling downward a brownish cardboard ramp are difficult to see.

Finally, nosotros secured the ramp inwards identify using to a greater extent than tape.

Once our ramp was ready, nosotros added a bowl alongside acorns inwards it to the transcend of the ramp in addition to and thence the kids started rolling the acorns!

The kids raced the acorns against each other, tried dissimilar ways to gyre them down, threw them downward the ramp, in addition to permit them gyre actually gently. They loved predicting which acorns would gyre the fastest in addition to and thence seeing if their predictions were right afterward they rolled the acorns!

The kids sometimes took turns rolling in addition to acorns in addition to sometimes they rolled them all at once.

My toddler worked on proverb the word, "more" in addition to signing for it every bit good in addition to my large kids would answer yesteryear running to a greater extent than or less in addition to collecting to a greater extent than acorns for her i time her bowl was empty.

Activities similar this that are engaging in addition to fun are GREAT times to innovate novel vocabulary words. She also learned the words acorn in addition to roll.