Weekly Create-to-Learn Family Project Video + Lesson: All the Best Moves
Encourage your child to use STEAM to explore living and non-living organisms. In this week's at-home activity, children use game-thinking to create an activity on how things move. "All the Best Moves" encourages children to move in playful new ways and to blend what they know with what they imagine. By combining their seemingly unrelated ideas, children build creative thinking skills.
REPLY to Participate: Have you done any STEAM activities at home? What supplies did you use? What did your child create? We encourage educators and families to ask questions, share artifacts, and access the expertise of Crayolian @James Wells in the At-Home Learning Community Discussions.
Pollinators Month Participation
June is Pollinator's Month – Using the Flowers and Their Friends activity, take your child on a walk to study flower and plant parts like roots, stems, leaves and seeds to better understand the natural world. Learn what role each plays in the plant's life, then investigate how sight, smell, and shape effect which birds and insects pollinate various flowering plants before creating their own plant out of Model Magic!
Shifting your understanding and updating your perspectives is increasingly important in the current learning environment. Does something need to be perfect to be beautiful? How do imperfections make objects more interesting or unique? Use the Cracked Cups: Fractured Beauty activity to encourage your child to reflect on broken objects and create "fractured art," demonstrating that beauty can be found in unexpected change.
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Roy G.
Community Host
Crayola
Easton PA
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