Summer Nature Table

With the first official start of Summer here, it was time to change out our Nature Table! We've been on many adventures since school let out and have already quite a collection of sand and pebbles and shells, so we knew just what was going in! We cleaned out the shells with water and a funnel and the kids had a blast putting it all together!

I tied in a shovel and a small bowl of blue water to mimic the clear blue water of the oceans!

I pulled out our shell and coral collection and put that jar next to the box. The books behind are TREES and BUTTERFLIES, both make awesome field guides while out on a nature hike!

Do you have a nature table? Please link me to it in the comments! I would love to see it!!

Craft in a Minute! Colored Sand

 We are on our way to the sane park after school today, but for my little guy he just can't wait to get out there! He was getting antsy and the water table and sandbox just weren't doing it for him! I figured we would stick with our Sand theme that we have going on after school, and came up with just the thing! Colored Sand! I went into my studio and came out with some empty plastic bottles I had and we got straight to work!

Materials Needed:
Cheese Grater (.10 at a tag sale)
Plastic Spoon
Container (Old hummus container)
Sidewalk Chalk
Sand (from our sand box!)

Just take the chalk and grate it into the sand that you have previously scooped and keep on mixing it up, so you can see how much you need to add! This took us barely any time to make up (I grated and he mixed!) and then before you knew it, he was having a blast mixing it all together! hahaha!!