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Water
Activities

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Bonus
Bonus Activity
Weekly Plan
Plan
for
for Toddlers
Toddlers &
& Preschoolers
Preschoolers

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room Bonus Activity Plan: Water Activities

Monday | Painting With Water: chalk

chalkboard
1 Paint with water! Cover your surface with chalk and
paint over it with water. This is perfect on a chalkboard,
paintbrushes
sidewalk
the sidewalk, or even construction paper! water

Tuesday | Walking Water Experiment: clear jars

Fill two jars with different colored water, dip a strip
2
food coloring
of paper towel into each jar, place the other end of the paper towel
towels into a third, empty jar. Watch the water walk the water
towel and mix together as it drips into the empty jar.

bucket or tub

3
dish soap
Wednesday | Wash Favorite Toys:
sponge or toothbrush
Use a tub of soapy water to wash favorite toys. toys
water

Thursday | Water Wall: funnel

Cut pool noodles and tape on a vertical surface. Add pool noodles

4 funnels to the top of the pool noodles, or below. Fill

water bottles with water and pour into the top of the
tape
tub
water
water wall! water bottles

Friday | See What Dissolves: clear jars

5 Using items from the pantry, do an experiment to see
spoons
various pantry items
what dissolves in water. water

Saturday | Sponge Water Target: bucket

sidewalk
Draw a target on the driveway or sidewalk in chalk.
6 Soak sponges in a bucket of water to throw at the
sidewalk chalk
sponge
target. water

Sunday | Colored Water Transfer: bucket or tub

7 Have a water play day! Set out tubs of water with

some scoops to transfer water back and forth. Add
food coloring (optional)
scoops, spoons, etc.
water
color to the water if you’d like.

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Painting with Water 1 Fill a small tub with water and grab a
paintbrush!

Supplies:
chalk
chalkboard
paintbrushes
sidewalk
2 Cover an area (driveway, chalkboard,
etc) with sidewalk chalk.

water

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3 Paint in the area with water to erase it.

Tips:

If doing this inside, You can do this without Using real

only use a small tub of
water. Expect it to get
dumped, so only fill it
as full as you’d like to
clean up.
the chalk too. Just paintbrushes and paint
painting a sidewalk rollers adds a bit of
with water changes the excitement to toddlers.
color of it. What else They love to act just
can you paint? A fence? like Mom and Dad!

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Walking Water
Experiment 1 Fill two jars nearly full of water. Add
different food coloring to each.

Supplies:
clear jars Tear two long strips of a paper towel.
food coloring
paper towel
water
2 Dip one end of each in the filled jars and
place the other end into a third, empty
jar.

Watch the water walk up the paper

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3 towel and drip down and mix together
in the empty jar.

Tips:

The absorbency of the
paper towel plays a
big role in how fast
the water walks.
Experiment with
different kinds, as well
as toilet paper.
Also, try folding a Try raising the filled
paper towel into thirds jars above the empty
to see if that helps jar to let gravity help.
speed it up.
Stick to two primary
colors to mix so you
can see what color it
makes.

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Wash Favorite Toys 1 Mix up a batch of soapy water in a tub

or bucket.

Supplies:
bucket or tub
dish soap
sponge or toothbrush
toys
2 Have your child collect some of their
favorite, most used, toys (that are hard).

water

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3 Clean those toys with a sponge or
toothbrush!

Tips:

For less mess, take
this outside or lay out
a shower curtain or
large towel.
This can be done with Add a toothbrush to the
both big and little toy wash for detailed
toys! The big toys will cleaning (and fine
probably just not fit in motor control)!
the tub!

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Cut pool noodles to various lengths and

Water Wall 1 tape in different positions on a vertical
surface (fence, wall).
Supplies:
funnel
pool noodles
tape
tub
2 Add funnels at the top of and below
some of the noodles.

water
water bottles
Fill up water bottles with water and
3 pour into the top of the water wall and
watch the magic!

Tips:

No pool noodles? Try
plastic bottles and cut
the ends off, or cut
them in half lengthwise
to get more!
Older kids will love Younger kids may
creating the water just enjoy the water
wall, so involve them in sensory, let them
the creation! explore.

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Fill a bunch of clear jars half full with

See What Dissolves 1 water (peanut butter jars work great,
but glasses would work too!). Gather
random items from the pantry.
Supplies:
clear jars
spoons
various pantry items water 2 One at a time, dump a spoonful of each
pantry item into a jar.

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3 Stir each item in the water to see if it
dissolves or changes in the water.

Tips:

Items that work great:
rice, oatmeal, sugar,
salt, colored sprinkles,
cereal, spices, popcorn.
Ask your child what Try this outside with
they see happening? items in nature too.
They may not Leaves? Dirt? Rocks?
understand what
‘dissolve’ means. But
they can describe what
they see.

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Draw a target on the sidewalk with

Sponge Water Target 1 sidewalk chalk. Write numbers in each
circle, if desired.
Supplies:
bucket
sidewalk
sidewalk chalk
sponge
2 Soak sponges in a bucket of water.

water

3 Grab a water-soaked sponge and throw

it at the target to score!

Tips:

The numbers of the
target can be completely
arbitrary, but still fun for
younger kids.
Older kids can add up This is a great activity
their points, or aim to to do on a hot day to
get a certain number. cool off!
Can they make 50
points with 5 throws?

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Colored Water Transfer
Supplies:
bucket or tub
food coloring (optional)
scoops, spoons, etc.
water
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Tips:
This is a great
opportunity to
introduce color mixing.
Use only two primary
colors (red, blue or
yellow) to mix together.
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Activity: Water Activities
1 Fill two tubs with water. Add food
coloring to each if you’d like.
2 Set out a third, empty container to dump
the water into (and mix the colors).
Use scoops, spoons, measuring cups, etc
3 to transfer the water into the empty tub
(and back again)!
Smaller scoops means Take this outside if
more fine motor possible. If it’s not
control used as well as possible, set this
more time to transfer up indoors with a
the water! tablecloth (or shower
curtain or large towel)
on the floor to catch
spills.