I've been teaching young children for over 15 years. As I teach I get inspired to try new things every year. Some of them are my own creations and others come from something I've seen or done. I've created this blog as a place to share the things that I am doing in my preschool. I hope you can find inspiration for yourself, somewhere on this blog!

Monday, September 12, 2011

I Spy Bags

For our 5 Senses unit I decided to make I Spy Bags for our day that we talked about sight.  If you look in the next picture you can see the rice that I colored for the bags.  You can color rice the same way you color pasta: Rubbing alcohol with food coloring.  Shake up the rice and alcohol in a Ziploc bag, let it soak for a few minutes, then pour it out onto something to dry.  Make sure it's thick because if it soaks through, it could stain your table!!!

 

I found 10 items around the school that we could use in the bags.
 

The kids started at one end of the table by getting a baggie then filling it up with one of each of the ten items in the bowls.  Then they could put three scoops of rice into the bag.  Last, I had the kids copy my card and write "I Spy" on the front of their own card and their name on the back.



 

I finished off the bags by using packing tape to tape the card over the top of the ziploc bag so that the kids couldn't open them up.  This was the first time I had tried this activity and I LOVED it!
(Sorry I don't have a picture of the finished product-you'll have to use your imagination!)

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