The Thoughtful Spot Day Care

A Fun End to a Great Summer!

Magic Bead Bracelets The beads are white until.... You put them in the sun!  

Shell Collage Wall Hanging Make sure to coat the aluminum pan with vaseline and lay the piece of yarn in the pan before pouring in th...

Sand Dough You will need: 1 cup sand 1/2 cup cornstarch 1 tsp. alum 3/4 cups of water Stir together sand, cornstarch, and alum in s...

I used white sand and brown sand.  I had the older kids sift their own sand to make it more of a process.  They added all the ingredients to...

Marshmallow Masterpieces We used toothpicks and marshmallows to make cool shapes and towers!  This kept them busy for a long time!

Making Bugs in our Creepy Crawler Maker

The Wild World of ROCKS! Collecting Rocks Washing Them Up Painting Rocks for our Rock Garden!

Our Bug Station The kids like to use the magnifying glasses to look at the fake bugs, and the real ones too!

Bug Updates! Posted Below

Ocean T-shirts I usually make these every year with the kids.  However, we didn't do it this year so I used one of the five that...

This is the ant farm below!  The ants aren't included, you have to order them through the mail or online.  They come really fast!  This ...

The Ants are Here! This is a gel ant farm.  They are much easier than a traditional ant farm.  The gel is their food and water and you don...

There is a light you can buy (separately of course) to go under the ant farm so it glows!  This is the start of a tunnel just a couple hours...

This happened overnight! This is the end of the second day!

This is two weeks later!  They have been busy!  It says the ants are supposed to live for 1 to 3 months.

Books About Bugs Beautiful Bugs  by Daisy Connell Busy Honeybees  by Justin McCory Martin What Is An Insect?  by Jeff Bauer Strange Bugs...

Finger Puppet Friends I love finger puppets!  We use them as our clean-up friends.  Five minutes before clean-up I put a finger puppet on m...

The Earthworm Nursery The top picture are Vermipods.  Vermipods are small clay balls and inside the clay ball is the earthworm cocoon.  The...

The Ladybug's Are Here! The first container is what the ladybug larvae come in.  You empty them all into the Ladybug Land and put the ...