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Light Table Activity for Kids: Exploring with Loose Parts
On this particular day, I set out the following objects: clear plastic cups (they're individual sized applesauce containers from our recycling stash), various colored glass stones, and our homemade colored transparent shapes.
The materials can easily be stacked and layered, allowing the clear cups to light up with different colors.
Or perhaps the materials will be used to create faces, like J did.
Or if you are K, you will do some "cooking." And one must simply sample the "food" when cooking.
The boys also used the materials to build colorful towers like this...
The boys also counted, sorted, scooped, and poured the glass stones, but really the possibilities for play are endless. That's the beauty of loose parts play.
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