PHYSICAL: Fine Motor CREATIVE / AESTHETIC PHYSICAL: Gross Motor

 Water Tray  Epsom salt painting  Water balloon stomp

 Play Dough – making solid objects  Melted crayons art  ‘Move Like a State of Matter’ video on YouTube
 Ice melting/Ice excavation experiment  Watercolour resist artwork – use crayons (a solid) to draw and then painted  Balloon rockets
 Clay building with air dry clay – experimenting with watercolours (liquid) on top of them  Water Play
changing states of matter  Mixing colours using water coloured paints  Water table
 Pouring station  Oil and water droplet panting  Helium balloon/air balloon play
 Water beads sensory bin  Milk painting  Sand play – experiencing pouring/mixing a solid and
 Lego/Duplo STEM activity – building water dams with  Marbled mink paper comparing it to a liquid
duplo and water  Rainbow wizards brew  Ice sculptures
 Rain sensory bin – exploring liquid through rain  Ooey Gooey oily art  Bubble play
 Layering liquids experiment  Oil and watercolours on the light table
 Duplo – playing with solid objects/building solid objects  Ice Sculptures

Concept: Matter Term: 3 Weeks: 1-4

SPIRITUAL / MORAL
PERSONAL / SOCIAL /
EMOTIONAL COGNITIVE / LANGUAGE  Dancing sultanas experiment
 Droplets on a coin experiment
 Walking water science experiment
 ‘Potion Lab’ dramatic play  State of matter sorting game
 Homemade lava lamp activity
 Mud kitchen  Rainbow in a jar science experiment
 Tornado in a bottle experiment
 Cooking/baking  Butter in a jar experiment
 Leak proof bag experiment
 Investigation table to explore solids, liquids and gases  Water cycle in a bag experiment OR water cycle discovery bottle
 ‘Ice world’ small world play  Cloud in a jar experiment
 Cooking/Baking
 Oil and water colours on the light table  Watch a candle burn and reflect on its beauty. Invite
 Making play dough
 Water Absorption Investigation Table children to wonder about how the flame is causing
 Mystery balloons
 Water xylophone to explore liquids and sound science the wax to melt
 Make your own ice-cream
 Layering liquids experiment  Books – listed under personal/social/emotional
 Making healthy fresh fruit icy poles – experimenting with freezing, turning a
 Book corner with books about the states of matter. What’s the  Photographs of various natural features of our world
liquid into a gas
Matter in Mr. Whiskers’ Room? By Michael Elsohn Ross. What is that involve the states of matter– clouds, rain, water
the World Made of? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. What is a  Sink or float experiment
fall, ocean, rocks, trees etc.
Solid? By Jennifer Boothroyd. What is a Liquid? By Jennifer  Bath bomb dissolving experiment – what liquids will dissolve the bath
Boothroyd. What is a gas? By Jennifer Boothroyd. Bartholomew bomb?
and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss. Touch It!: Materials, Matter and  Balloon gas experiment
You by Adrienne Mason. Change It!: Solids, Liquids, Gases and  Making “oobleck” slime from the Dr. Seuss book
You by Adrienne Mason.