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Bonus Activity
November’s Plans
Activity Plans
forfor The Activity
Toddlers Room
& Preschoolers
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room Bonus Activity Plan: Science Experiments
Monday | Magic Milk Experiment: dish soap
food coloring
1 Experiment with milk. Pour whole milk into a shallow
dish. Drop in food coloring. Dip a cotton swab in dish
Q-tips
shallow dish
soap and hold it in the milk. Watch it swirl! whole milk
baking sheet or tray
Tuesday | Fizzy Color Experiment: baking soda
2 Fizzy experiment! Drop colored vinegar into a tray of
baking soda using eye droppers.
eye droppers
food coloring
vinegar
Wednesday | Walking Water Experiment: clear jars
3 Squirt shaving cream on a baking sheet. Write letters
and numbers or make shapes with your fingers.
food coloring
paper towel
water
Thursday | What Absorbs Experiment:
4 Collect various objects of nature in a muffin tin. Pour
water into each section to see what absorbs water and
muffin tin
nature
water
what doesn’t.
Friday | Make a Lava Lamp: Alka Seltzer tablets
5 Fill a glass bottle 1/3 with water and 2/3 with oil. Add
food coloring. Drop in an Alka Seltzer tablet and watch
clear jars
food coloring
vegetable oil
it bubble up! water
Saturday | See What Dissolves: clear jars
6 Using items from the pantry, do an experiment to see
what dissolves in water.
spoons
various pantry items
water
Sunday | Blow Up a Balloon:
baking soda
Put 2 oz of vinegar in plastic bottle. Funnel in 1 TBSP balloons
7 of baking soda in a balloon. Secure balloon to open-
ing of bottle. When ready, drop baking soda out of the
funnel
plastic bottle
balloon and into the bottle. Watch the balloon blow vinegar
up!
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room Bonus Activity: Science Experiments
Magic Milk Experiment 1 Pour whole milk into a shallow dish to
generously cover the bottom.
Supplies:
dish soap
2
food coloring Drop several drops of different colors of
Q-tips food coloring in the milk.
shallow dish
whole milk
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3 Dip a cotton swab in dish soap and stick
it in the milk to watch it swirl around.
Tips:
The thicker the ‘cream’ Try only two primary No Q-tip? Use anything
the better. If you have colors of food coloring to with a small end (craft
cream, that works even see what color it makes stick, pipe cleaner, pencil)
better than whole milk. when they swirl together or just drop a single drop
Skim milk won’t work as of dish soap from the
well. bottle.
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room Bonus Activity: Science Experiments
Fizzy Color Experiment 1 Spread a layer of baking soda on a tray.
Supplies:
baking sheet or tray
baking soda Add food coloring to a dish of vinegar.
eye droppers
food coloring
2 Mix several different colors in separate
dishes, if desired.
vinegar
Suck up the colored vinegar using an
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3 eye dropper and squirt it onto the tray
of baking soda. Watch it fizz.
Tips:
Keep the colors to Even after all the vinegar You can also use a
two primary colors, is used, they can suck it spoon to scoop and
otherwise it will turn up out of the tray and pour vinegar. The eye
brown. See what color it squirt it back in. It may droppers are great for
makes! or may not fizz at this strengthening little
point. fingers.
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room Bonus Activity: Science Experiments
Walking Water 1 Fill two jars nearly full of water. Add
different food coloring to each.
Experiment
Supplies:
Tear two long strips of a paper towel.
clear jars Dip one end of each in the filled jars and
food coloring
paper towel
2 place the other end into a third, empty
jar.
water
Watch the water walk up the paper tow-
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3 el and drip down and mix together in
the empty jar.
Tips:
The absorbency of the Also, try folding a paper Try raising the filled jars
paper towel plays a big towel into thirds to see if above the empty jar to let
role in how fast the water that helps speed it up. gravity help.
walks. Experiment with
different kinds, as well as Stick to two primary
toilet paper. colors to mix so you can
see what color it makes.
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room Bonus Activity: Science Experiments
Go on a hunt around the backyard and
What Absorbs Experiment 1 collect various objects from nature. Sort
and place in a muffin tin.
Supplies:
muffin tin
nature
water 2 Pour water over your nature collections
in each section in the muffin tin.
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3 Make a guess if each object will absorb
the water or not.
Tips:
Ask your child what they Nature objects that work Try this inside with items
see happening? They may great for this: rocks, from the kitchen, too!
not understand what leaves, grass, pine cones, Flour? Cereal? Peanuts?
“absorbs” means. But dandelions, flowers, etc.
they can describe what
they see.
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room Bonus Activity: Science Experiments
Make a Lava Lamp 1 Fill a clear bottle 1/3 with water and 2/3
with oil.
Supplies:
Alka Seltzer tablets
clear jars
food coloring
vegetable oil
2 Add food coloring.
water
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3 Drop in Alka Seltzer tablets to watch it
bubble up.
Tips:
Small jars, mason jars, or Don’t be afraid to let No Alka Seltzer? This
tall glasses work great! them use the whole pack can be done with just
of Alka Seltzer tablets! salt, too. Just reverse the
water/oil ratios (mostly
water) and dump salt in
instead!
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room Bonus Activity: Science Experiments
Fill a bunch of clear jars half full with
See What Dissolves 1 water. Peanut butter jars work great,
but glasses would work too! Gather
random items from the pantry.
Supplies:
clear jars
spoons
various pantry items
water
2 One at a time, dump a spoonful of each
pantry item into a jar.
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3 Stir each item in the water to see if it
dissolves or changes in the water.
Tips:
Items that work great: Ask your child what they Try this outside with
rice, oatmeal, sugar, salt, see happening? They may items in nature too.
colored sprinkles, cereal, not understand what Leaves? Dirt? Rocks?
spices, popcorn. “dissolve” means. But
they can describe what
they see.
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room Bonus Activity: Science Experiments
Pour 2 oz of vinegar in plastic bottle.
Blow Up a Balloon 1 Funnel 1 TBSP of baking soda into a
balloon.
Supplies:
baking soda
2
balloons Secure the top of the balloon to the
funnel opening of the bottle carefully.
plastic bottle
vinegar
Hold balloon up to drop baking soda out
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3 of the balloon and into the bottle. Hold
tight to where the balloon is secured to
the bottle. Watch the balloon blow up!
Tips:
Don’t add too much of The science behind the You can reuse the
either vinegar or baking experiment: When baking balloons to do the
soda, it could cause the soda and vinegar mix it experiment over and
balloon to erupt. creates and gives off a over.
gas (carbon dioxide) that
blows up the balloon.
Carbon dioxide is heavier
than air so it will not
float in air if you release
it.
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