1) Laundry Hamper or a box or bag large enough to hold three balloons. You can use this for collecting your other supplies too!

2) “Where do we keep our…?” Decorations- stickers, crayons, markers. Can be items from nature… leaves, sand, grass.

Our kits have everything your child NEEDS to complete the crafts; decorations are optional. 

When that’s easy:

-Use tweezers to pick up cotton balls

-Have child be the “wheelbarrow” (walking on hands while you hold their legs being held behind them)

-Set up some obstacles (e.g. cones, stools) to navigate around.

-Try having the wheelbarrow go backwards 

-Give each contestant a straw.

-Place a cotton ball on the track in front of each contestant

-Count “1, 2, 3 BLOW” and try to blow your cotton ball off the track

When that’s easy:

-Use a longer race track; for an older child you might use a whole table

-See who can blow their lamb off the track in the fewest blows 

-Have your child pull some cotton balls apart to make them fluffy

-Cover your eyes with the solid cotton ball making a point of how you can’t see. After pulling apart, demonstrate that you can see through it. Talk about thick/thin.

-Talk about how the cotton feels as you pull it apart

-Have your child use the glue stick to stick the cotton to the sheep’s body

-Talk about body parts as your child glues cotton to them “Oh look at that sheep’s fuzzy belly. Should we give him a furry head?” 

-Scatter your “pigs”

Enjoy playing with the balloons for a bit hitting, throwing, and kicking them about.

-Put the hamper in the middle of the room.    

-Announce “Get the pigs in the pen”

Have the children scramble to get the balloons into the container as quickly as possible.

When that’s easy:

-You can do this multiple times, timing older children.

-Challenge them to get the pigs into the basket using different parts of their body.

Ex “Get the pigs in the pen using only your elbows”

-Try different positions/movements.

Get the pigs in the pen by: crawling, hopping, spinning, etc 

-Show your child how to wrap a pipe cleaner around their finger into a spiral (piggy tail)

-If they can’t yet do this, let them wrap around your finger.

-If they can’t do that yet, you can wrap the pipe cleaners around the child’s finger.

-Place the piggy tails on piggy bottoms.

When that’s easy:

-Match the tail colors to the pig of the same color

-Bury the tails in a bin of dried items to dig through

-Hide the tails around the room for the child to find

-Have the child use the tweezers to place the pig tail

-Talk about the shapes that make up the piggy bottoms.

Have your child find that same shape on other piggies