I save the oddest things when I find them. Like these colorful Popsicle sticks. I bought them at the end of summer from Walmart and put them away in a basket for a rainy day and it has been raining here all week long….
When I purchased these, I intended to set them out on my light table – which I will do on another day – but I had so many of them that I decided that it would be fun to put them all out on the art table for the children just to explore…
The children found the sticks sitting on the table and dived right in. I noticed that the first thing they did was sort them all out by colors. Â Each child wanted to have all of one single color to him or herself so together – they did a little color sorting…
After sorting out the colors, the children began to try other types of play. Some of the children just liked holding and feeling them…
Some children liked stacking them together or crisscrossing them to make designs…
Some of our children shared their patterns with me…
While others preferred constructing shapes like this ladder…
We had other shapes too…
And in the middle of all of this – I had one child make the great discovery that if you put a yellow and blue color stick together – it will make the color green!!
Super exciting play and lots of learning going on!