Happy Two Detective Activities Inspired Past Times The Berenstain Bears Too The Missing Honey

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This calendar month nosotros are excited to share two unproblematic book-related activities created only to become along with BabbaBox: H5N1 cool learning tool for kids! for a piffling combat to a greater extent than information.

In the book The Berenstain Bears together with the Missing Honey, the Berenstain bears are on a hunt for a pot of dearest that has disappeared from their house! They await everywhere together with follow a serial of clues until they discover the culprit!

We love hunting for missing items at our house... specially if it involves using a flashlight, thus our kickoff activeness was a Detective Flashlight Hunt to discover our ain missing honey!

Detective Flashlight Hunt

Materials Needed: Flashlight (we used the i inwards our Oct BabbaBox), pot of dearest printable, together with a semi nighttime room.

This activeness was thus unproblematic withal amazingly fun.

1. Print off the honey printable onto cardstock. Color together with cutting it out. Laminate (optional).
2. Have i someone cover the dearest inwards the semi nighttime room piece the other someone covers their eyes (or goes out of the room).
3. Have the other someone role the flashlight to search for the honey.
4. Once found, switch jobs together with play again.
5. Take turns together with play over again together with again.

For older kids: Write alphabet letters, names, sight words, or give-and-take menage unit of measurement words on several jars of honey. Hide the dearest jars closed to the nighttime room. Tell the nestling a specific word/letter to hunt for or give them unproblematic clues near the words. Play until they've establish all the dearest jars.

The 2nd activeness nosotros planned was a process together with activeness all inwards one!

Detective Decoder Cookies

Materials Needed: shop bought saccharide cookie dough (we used Pillsbury) or homemade saccharide cookie dough, crushed cherry candies (we used Jolly Ranchers), baking pan, baking spray, foil or a Silpat, oven, plastic baggie, something to trounce the cherry candies, markers (red, orange, pink), together with a bluish pen.

I establish this thought for Secret Decoder Valentine's Day cookies on Spoonful together with knew nosotros had to endeavour them out this calendar month alongside our detective box!  

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Make your cookie dough into piffling sparse apartment coils together with role them to brand a large circle on your baking pan. Ours was almost equally large equally my hand. Add a long grip of dough to consummate your magnifying glass. Don't brand the dough also fatty or high or else it volition spread out also much. Ours was near equally sparse equally my pinky finger.
3. Crush the cherry candies within a baggie until they are inwards real pocket-size pieces. We used a metallic salad server for crushing.
4. Add the crushed cherry candies to the middle of your circle.
5. Place inwards oven on a baking pan covered alongside greased foil (or role a silpat similar I did) together with bake for 7-8 minutes... or until edges only barely start to brown.
6. Let cool together with and thus carefully elevator off the pan alongside a pancake flipper.
7. While the cookies are cooling, pick out get got of some newspaper together with write a clandestine message on the newspaper alongside bluish ink. Color over the bluish message alongside designs together with other words using orange, red, together with pinkish pens/markers until the message is barely visible.
8. Once the decoder cookie is cool, set it on hand of the clandestine message. Only the bluish clandestine message should live visible through the cherry of the magnifying glass!
9. You tin give the axe reuse the decoder cookies over again together with over again together with write novel messages, or you lot tin give the axe only swallow them! :) 

In add-on to the cool flashlight, at that topographic point were several other awesome activities inwards our BabbaBox this month. 

We...

• Created a shape detective retention game
• Explored using a detective's fingerprinting kit
• Created using a clandestine message spy notebook (and nosotros made fingerprint animals too)
• Read The Berenstain Bears together with the Missing Honey
• Connected online using the Monkey Preschool Lunchbox App!
• There were also coloring pages together with other suggested activities inwards our box!

I unremarkably love our monthly Babbabox but this calendar month I convey specially appreciated our box since it arrived the solar daytime earlier our novel babe (#3) arrived!! On Mon when I got habitation from the infirmary I needed a special activeness to create alongside my older 2 kids that was fun together with gave them some extra attention... but I had no break energy to come upward up alongside anything! We grabbed our Babbabox together with had such a fun afternoon creating together with exploring together!!

If you lot desire to a greater extent than fourth dimension to connect alongside your kids... but don't convey tons of fourth dimension to live creative together with come upward up alongside ideas, you lot volition love the Babbabox!

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Do you lot convey whatsoever other fun detective ideas for me?? Please portion them inwards the comments!! This subject has been i of our favorites!

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