Water Table Fun-chicks and bugs

I found these cute little chick eggs after Easter a couple years ago, coupled with some Easter grass, and some counting cups and bugs I already had I came up with this fun activity.

Inside each chick are directions for how many bugs, what type of bugs, or what color of bugs for that chick to eat. An example is below:




I also provide tongs and different colored cups.

My children also have fun just digging through the grass and sorting them into the cups and pretending the chicks are searching for and eating up the bugs!!!!

BLOOMIN' MATH

We started this off with painting 10 flowers and 2 butterflies(I found popsicle sticks with flower shapes on the top at the $ store). I then programmed the flowers from 1-10. I also wanted to use these with my 1st grader and Kindergartner so I programmed the 2 butterflies with addition and subtraction signs.

Items needed are: the flowers and butterflies, 2 plastic flower pots, craft foam(for in 1 of the pots, cut it to size), and seeds(brown pompoms)

I use one of the pots to hold all the seeds and the other to insert the flowers.


Now for the fun...the children can insert the flowers to practice number recognition and counting by placing the correct number of seed to grow the flower and for the older kids they can practice their addition skills.