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Spices Collage

J asks me all day long to “shake shake shake”.  No, he’s not asking me to show off my best dance moves (which there are none!), he’s asking me to let him shake spices.  You see, he really likes to help me cook.  His favorite part is helping me with the seasonings by shaking spices.

The other day, I remembered that I had a mixture of spices left over from our spice paintings.  So, I decided that we should do another activity with the spices.

J has also been quite the collector on our walks lately, so I have all these random leaves and flowers in the garage.

So, I took the leaves, flowers, and spices, and make a natural spice collage with J!
spice and nature collage

I set up the invitation like this.  The plastic is clear contact paper, sticky side up.  I laid the leave and things on the side, along with the spices.  Note:  The spice container says Crushed Red Pepper, but it was just an empty container that I washed.  None of the spices I used were hot.

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J immediately went to the spices and shook (and giggled) until…

spice and nature collage

all the spices were gone!

spice and nature collage

He really enjoyed not only the shaking of spices, but also placing the leaves on the sticky paper. 

spice and nature collage
Things we learned:

  • Noticed the smell and taste of the spices
  • Felt the texture of the spices and the leaves.
  • Talked about words like shake, sticky, nature, grainy, leaves, flowers, and many more!
  • He noticed the sound of the spices hitting the paper.
  • Worked on fine motor skills (twisting open the container, and picking up the spices)
  • Worked on large motor skills of shaking and swishing the spices around

This can be turned into a  sun catcher if you cover the work with another sheet of contact paper and hung it in the window.

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Filed Under: Play Tagged With: arts and crafts, Fine Motor Play, Invitations to Play, Preschool, Sensory Play, Toddler

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  1. abby

    June 25, 2012 at 5:10 am

    So funny… Today I reorganized my spice cabinet and have all these duplicate bottles with small amounts of spices in them. I just couldn’t throw them away… And was feeling like a hoarder for wanting to “find something to do with them” and then I read this!!!! You are gooood!!! She is gonna love it and I will have to post a pic of the finished product.

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    • Amanda

      June 25, 2012 at 5:15 pm

      Good timing huh? Please do post pics, I’d love to see them!

      Reply
  2. Anonymous

    July 17, 2012 at 5:03 am

    Very neat activity- but crushed red peppers?! That can pretty painful if he rubs them in his eye.

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    • Amanda

      July 17, 2012 at 5:28 pm

      I stated in the post that I did not used the crushed red peppers. It was an empty bottle that I had cleaned…just still had the label on it.

      Reply

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