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Crystal Color Stacking Blocks

Discover the beauty of our wonderful R60310 Crystal Color Stacking Blocks! Stack up the clear color blocks to form new colors. Place on top of Roylco’s R59601 Educational Light Cube for even greater light effects!

To start, we began by placing the blocks directly onto the R59630 Light Cube with the light turned off. We let the campers explore the blocks on their own first. This was a great exercise for kids as they described the block colors and stacked the blocks according to the grooves on the back.

As soon as we turned the Cube on, all eyes were on it!

It was absolutely mesmerizing, even for the most active kids.

Next we placed the R59630 Sensory Tray onto the Light Cube. As you can see from the photo above, the clear tray allows the bright colorful light of the Light Cube to shine through. We also added a bit of sand to the inside and challenged the young architects to build the strongest tower they could make. The tower had to withstand the vibrations of the Sensory Tray once we turned it on.

Accepting their challenges, the campers filled the bottom blocks with sand to secure the structure in place.

They continued to fill the blocks with sand until they realized it might be too top heavy to withstand the force of the vibrations. We tested it out and sure enough, the whole thing toppled from the top down!

Next, they tried a different formation. They flipped the blocks the correct way and buried the edges into a pile of sand, thinking that this might be the trick to getting the tower to stay upright.

The base held together after we turned the Sensory Tray on, but not the top! Since they stacked multiples of the same block together, those parts fell first. It was a great learning experience, and every time we tried to pack up the activity, the kids begged us, “Just give us 5 more minutes! We need to build a stronger tower!”

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Posted on October 19, 2015February 12, 2020 by Raman

Apple Tree Family

Trace your family history with beautiful imagery using our R49133 Apple Family Tree!

The kit comes with 24 trees and accompanying apple stickers for every student in your class! Remove the stickers and place onto the tree. Kids can cut out small photos of their family members, write the names of their family members or decorate the apples with drawings representing their relatives.

The Apple Tree Family Tree is a great way to get students thinking about their family histories, where they come from and key vocabulary words to describe the members of their family (i.e. aunt, uncle, cousin, grandparent, etc…)

Share students’ work by inviting parents to visit for a special Family Tree Celebration. Students can take turns explaining their family tree to the rest of the class. You can even coordinate this activity to occur during parent-teacher night!

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Posted on October 12, 2015February 12, 2020 by Raman

Dinosaur Print Papers

Our printed papers are renowned for their bright, colorful patterns! We’ve separated them into themes, such as this one: Dinosaur Print Papers. Use them to decorate your R16035 Collage-a-Saurus dinosaurs!

We first set out the R16035 Collage A Saurus for students to assemble. They simply pop out the dinosaur from its backing and R15311 Dinosaur Papers for students to select from.

Place the Collage-A-Saurus onto a sheet of Dinosaur Paper. The sheet may not fully cover the dinosaur figure so you will have to either fill the rest in with a separate sheet, or use scrap bits from the first sheet.

You can also do both sides of the dinosaur if you’d like! Just make sure to flip it over when you are tracing!

Cut along the traced line.

Glue the printed pattern paper onto the Collage dinosaurs.

Don’t forget to decorate the plant stand as well! This helps the dinosaur stand up.

Thanks to our campers for bringing their dinosaurs to life!

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Posted on October 7, 2015February 12, 2020 by Raman

Borders Paper

Frame your students’ artwork before they make it! R15287 Borders Paper features a variety of printed borders with blank interiors for students to illustrate their artwork.

We asked students in a class to draw themselves and their favorite things. We got back some beautiful and colorful drawings! Each of the Borders Papers represents a historical era or culture through the thematic illustrated frames, so they can be used as supplements to social studies lessons.

These two friends drew pictures of each other!

This picture tells a story! When asked about the picture, this student said it was silly because the friends were getting rained on even though there was sun on the other side! Use Borders Paper to frame short stories, poems, even photographs!

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Posted on October 6, 2015February 12, 2020 by Raman

Straws and Connectors City

On a nice sunny day, we went outside to build structures as part of our city development and planning lesson! We dropped a TON of Straws and Connectors on the ground and asked the campers to build around the city roads we made from special rolls of tarmac-like paper.

What a mess! Soon to be made into an amazing sculpture with the help of a few creative minds!

Lots of collaborating took place as some campers built off each other’s sculptures.

Some structures required a little reworking!

Others knew exactly what they wanted.

These campers worked together to build a structure of cubes. They added more cubes and then at some point, realized that they needed a bit of variety to their structure…

As soon as one of the camp helpers showed them how to make variations with the straws, the boys were hooked!

These campers also took on the challenge and added more interest to their building design.

More and more designs popped up in other areas surrounding the “streets.” These designs looked like magnificent building achievements!

We all worked together to make the best out of our designs, and in the end we built a whole city of color! Later, our campers took a walk throughout the “city” to view all the great architectural designs. This is a fun outdoors activity that will last all day and make the most of your students’ problem-solving, critical thinking and design skills.

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Posted on September 30, 2015February 12, 2020 by Raman

Skyscraper Building Cards

Build ’em up and knock ’em down! Skyscraper Building Cards are a perfect addition to your building play center for kids who love to play architect and Godzilla all in one!

We decided to test how our R60450 Skyscraper Building Cards could be used in a variety of different projects. One of these projects was designed to introduce students to city planning. This project enabled students to work together as a team to create little cities with the basic structural design of the Skyscraper Building Cards. It was up to students to plan where all the buildings went, how high they were built and what types of buildings they were making.

We went to the Design Exchange Museum in Toronto for their March Break camp and set out the materials for the campers. The Skyscraper Building Cards were fairly easy to pick up: the blue cards are made to stand upright while the red scaffolding cards were placed flat on top of the blue cards.

Once campers got the basic idea how to build with the cards, they decided to immediately start building a city. They made many little structures to fill up a large amount of space.

We loved the way the campers decided to criss-cross the scaffolding cards. This added a bit of interest to their building designs.

In the same group, one of the campers decided to build upwards instead of outwards. She stacked multiple little buildings together to make a base, then repeated the same design on the next level. This continued until she reached a reasonable height, which prompted the other campers to claim that the surrounding buildings were actually little “houses” and the big building represented the city center.

Other campers got right into the fun. They constructed buildings with floors for people to work in. The people toys are our R75304 Super Topplers!

The designs began to get more and more complex…

This design, for instance, included a 3-level parking garage which was attached to the building by ramps and walkways.

Finally, we took our structures to the next level by introducing our newest R59630 Sensory Tray! The Sensory Tray is a sand and water table all-in-one, featuring a vibrating mechanism to engage students’ senses even further. We placed a bit of sand at the bottom of the tray to give the structures some stability.

But once the unit was turned on, it toppled the building right over! It was a great challenge and the campers were eager to rebuild their structures with more stability.

We had great fun testing out new building designs and challenging ourselves with new ideas and materials!

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Posted on September 23, 2015February 12, 2020 by Raman

Drama Hats

Make believe you are a pilot, cowboy, Viking, queen and more with lovely blank, printed Drama Hats!

All the Drama Hats come printed on blank paper and are die-cut into recognizable hat shapes. Choose between a crown, Viking helmet, captain’s hat, medieval warrior helmet, pirate hat, pharaoh headdress, aviator hat and cowboy hat!

Use markers, crayons or pencil crayons to color in the white parts of the hats.

Kids love to take their time filling in all the little details.

Encourage students to add embellishments and other fun craft materials to “fun up” their designs.

The older students tend to fill in more of the surface area than younger students do. You can encourage younger students to fill in the areas with paint if they are having trouble coloring in all the spaces.

Attach on a strip of paper to either side of the Drama Hats. You can accordingly tighten or loosen the strips to fit each child’s head. Tape it secure.

We cut out props such as eye patches and mustaches from craft foam and wore them along with our hats. The campers had a great time role-playing. A chunk of time was spent running around in the garden acting out the different roles and creating on-the-fly stories about adventures in the woods!

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Posted on September 9, 2015February 12, 2020 by Raman

Tube Crafts Pencil Holders

Make beautiful holders for your writing and painting tools using colorful card paper!

Age: 5+

Duration: 10 minutes

You’ll Need:

• R39301 Tube Crafts

• R22052 Double Color Sheets

• Tape

• Scissors

The R39301 Tube Crafts will be used to make the tubes for the holders.

Select one flat sheet of the Tube Crafts and cut it all the way across using the midpoint notch as a guide.

After you have cut across the sheet, you should have two separate templates to make smaller tubes.

Roll up several of the tubes in various sizes.

Next, cut little slits into the bottom edge of each tube. Space the slits at about ½” apart.

Press the tabs outwards to make the tubes stand more securely. Tape them down onto a flat sheet of Double Color Card paper.

And voila! A great way to keep all your desk tools in one neat little area. We suggest using 3 tubes at a time because they provide stability for holding various objects. Use the tubes to store your favorite colors of markers, pencil crayons, Goo Spreaders, paintbrushes, pipettes and more!

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Posted on September 2, 2015February 12, 2020 by Raman

Flying Sparkly Fish

Add the word “fancy” to your Flying Fish when you decorate them with glitter glue!

Age: 5+

Duration: 15 minutes

Learning Objectives: Learn about the different types of Flying Fish. Exercise fine motor skills with glitter glue application. Create a dimensional fish from raised scales, fins and gills.

You’ll Need:

• R51082 Flying Fish

• Paint

• Paintbrush

• Glitter glue

Color your Flying Fish with a wash of tempera paint. Kids can color in the whole sheet or alternate coloring with other colors. Wait until the fish are dry before popping them out from their paper backing.

Some students opted to decorate their Flying Fish with multiple colors.

Once the fish were dry, our campers then added a finishing touch. First, they dabbed a few spots of clear glue onto the fish scales…

…then sprinkled on a bit of glitter! Make sure to place your Flying Fish project onto a sheet of newspaper or a paint tray to hold all the excess glitter.

We then tipped the Flying Fish on their sides to let the excess glitter slide right off. We used a variety of glitter colors, such as green, gold, blue, red and silver.

The campers then waited for the glitter glue to dry before heading over to our photo backdrops!

We cut out waves from cardboard and painted them with blue and white stipple effect.

We strung up our Flying Fish and pretended to “reel them in”!

We got the best reaction from this camper who struggled to bring her catch above the waves!

Best catch of the day!! Look at the sparkles on that one!

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Posted on August 26, 2015June 12, 2020 by Raman