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    The document provides suggestions for water-themed activities at a daycare center. It suggests displaying pictures of water, experimenting with different ways for children to drink water, and activities like letting toddlers pour water and play with bubbles. Other activities include filling bottles with water and objects to shake, making fish crafts, washing toys and dishes with water, bathing dolls, throwing balls in water to observe splashes, and exploring funnels of different sizes filled with water. The goal is to engage children with water in various sensory, art, cognitive and social activities.

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    The document provides suggestions for water-themed activities at a daycare center. It suggests displaying pictures of water, experimenting with different ways for children to drink water, and activities like letting toddlers pour water and play with bubbles. Other activities include filling bottles with water and objects to shake, making fish crafts, washing toys and dishes with water, bathing dolls, throwing balls in water to observe splashes, and exploring funnels of different sizes filled with water. The goal is to engage children with water in various sensory, art, cognitive and social activities.

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    The document provides suggestions for water-themed activities at a daycare center. It suggests displaying pictures of water, experimenting with different ways for children to drink water, and activities like letting toddlers pour water and play with bubbles. Other activities include filling bottles with water and objects to shake, making fish crafts, washing toys and dishes with water, bathing dolls, throwing balls in water to observe splashes, and exploring funnels of different sizes filled with water. The goal is to engage children with water in various sensory, art, cognitive and social activities.

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    Water Games

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    The document provides suggestions for water-themed activities at a daycare center. It suggests displaying pictures of water, experimenting with different ways for children to drink water, and activities like letting toddlers pour water and play with bubbles. Other activities include filling bottles with water and objects to shake, making fish crafts, washing toys and dishes with water, bathing dolls, throwing balls in water to observe splashes, and exploring funnels of different sizes filled with water. The goal is to engage children with water in various sensory, art, cognitive and social activities.

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    Pictures of water

    Display pictures and illustrations related to water throughout your daycare. A few
    suggestions: children playing in water, a mother watering plants or flowers, a dog
    drinking water, etc. Explore the pictures with your group.

    ROUTINES AND TRANSITIONS


    Drinking water different ways
    Experiment with different ways of drinking water: in a small glass, in a large glass,
    with a drinking straw, with a spoon, etc.

    Like a big kid


    Set pitchers of water on a table outside. Let older toddlers try to pour water in their
    glass. Younger children will enjoy transferring water from one drinking glass to
    another.

    SENSORY ACTIVITIES (touch)


    Bubbles
    Pour a small amount of water in the bottom of a small swimming pool. Add bubble
    bath and stir with your group. They will enjoy playing in the bubbles. Add small
    containers children can fill and empty with bubbles.

    SENSORY ACTIVITIES (look)


    Bottles
    Use plastic bottles. Fill them with water. Drop a different item in each bottle. Among
    other things, you may add glitter, food coloring, plastic flowers, fish shapes cut out of
    felt or Fun Foam, etc. Secure the caps on the bottles and let children shake the
    bottles. They will enjoy watching the various objects move around in the water.

    ARTS & CRAFTS


    Little fish
    On a large piece of cardboard, let babies and toddlers paint, draw, or glue pieces of
    blue paper to represent water. Cut a variety of fish shapes out of construction paper
    and let children decorate them. When they are done they can glue their fish on the
    blue background.

    Paintbrushes and water


    If you have a black chalkboard in your daycare, encourage children to paint the
    surface with water. A large cardboard box or paved driveway can also be used.

    MORAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES


    Cleaning as a group
    Gather several buckets and fill them with soapy water. Add sponges and cloths and
    invite children to wash your slides, swings, fence, plastic chairs, etc. Variation: Let
    children wash the toys in your daycare or their dishes after lunch.

    Time for a bath


    Encourage babies and toddlers to bathe the dolls available in your daycare. Offer
    empty soap and shampoo bottles, facecloths, bars of soap, and towels to make the
    activity seem as real as possible.

    COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES
    Balls
    Collect several different balls. Be sure to have very light balls and very heavy balls.
    Have children throw the balls in a small swimming pool. They will enjoy the splashes
    the balls will produce. Help them notice that the heavier balls produce bigger waves
    and that the lighter balls float more easily.

    Different sizes of funnels


    Collect several different funnels, from very small funnels to gigantic funnels. Let
    children explore them in containers filled with water or small pools.
    This activity is perfect for learning about cause and effect. What's more, funnels
    represent improvised hourglasses for babies.

    A few suggestions:
    ● Add food coloring to a water bottle and empty it in a funnel in front of babies
    to help them differentiate the pool water from the water that is coming out of
    the funnel.
    ● Let the water dripping out of the funnel drip on babies' different body parts to
    offer them a gentle massage. Use lukewarm water that you can let drip
    through the funnel onto babies' hands. The water should be slightly warmer
    than the pool water so that children can feel the difference.

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