Clean the Beach

🌊clean the beach🌊⠀

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It was the first day of summer over the weekend and we celebrated with a trip to the beach! By beach, I mean this fine motor activity beach for #goforthegoldsummer series. Same thing, right?😂 🏝⠀

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Both my kids (5 and 2.5) had a blast doing this activity, it was great fine motor practice, quick and easy to set up, and after the activity was done, it turned into a sensory bin for the rest of the day! All and all it was a winner! ⠀

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🏖The Set Up🏖⠀

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🐠 Pour some sand (we used kinetic) in a tray or container and push it all to one side. ⠀

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🦀Pour in some blue water (water with 1 drop of blue food dye mixed in). I poured it on the opposite side as the sand and put just enough that it touched the sand a bit.⠀

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🐠Take shells and/or ocean animal figures and wrap them up with “seaweed” and “trash” (an assortment of rubber bands, pipe cleaners and yarn). Thank you @charlies_kids_creations for the idea to use yarn! ⠀

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🦀Take the wrapped up shells and ocean animals and place them inside the bin in random spots. I also added two umbrella toothpicks into the sand for decor. ⠀

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🐠Put out some fine motor utensils (scissors, tweezers, tongs, etc.) and a bowl or something to put the “trash” and “seaweed” in. ⠀

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🏖The Activity🏖⠀

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Have your child “clean the beach” by removing the tangled seaweed and trash off of the shells and animals using any of the fine motor utensils. After cleaning, have your child place the animals and shells back where they belong (on the sand or in the water). ⠀

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Austin spent the majority of the time cutting with scissors. Brooklyn’s tool of choice was unwrapping with her hands and then using the tweezers to place things back where they belong. As they played we talked about the importance of keeping beaches clean to help protect marine life. ⠀

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It was such an easy activity to set up, the kids were engaged, working on their fine motor skills, playing and learning! ⠀

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🏖Make sure you’re following the hashtag #goforthegoldsummer on instagram

and all the amazing teacher accounts listed (swipe to last pic) that are participating! You don’t want to miss out on any of the beach themed activities this week! Happy Monday☀️