Once again it was a beautiful week! We spent a lot of time outside in our driveway riding trikes and bikes and kicking the ball around! We also spent some time in the sandbox and on the swing set as our backyard has finally started to dry out! It’s amazing what a few sunny, warm days can do!
The driveway this week was covered with the usual bike ‘roads’ and train tracks to follow, along with a hopscotch layout, some numbers and letters, and some chalk paintings! However, we also tried our hand at tracing shadows with chalk, something we tried when Cutie Pie was younger, but which didn’t work because he wouldn’t stand still long enough, and seen just recently on Tinker Lab!
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| Chalk outline of a tree a few minutes after drawing it |
We also used this shadow tracing as a science lesson talking about why shadows move. When they noticed the shadows changed shape, even though the item whose shadow was traced was not moved, I asked how they thought it happened. Cutie Pie really thought about it before answering. I don’t remember what he answered, but I do remember I giggled before talking about how the sun moves across the sky (the easy answer for Sweet Pea) and how it is really the earth moving around the sun. Cutie Pie remembered playing with flashlights making shadows and how the shadow of an object changed when the flashlight moved. He seemed to quickly understand the basic idea of the earth moving making the sun moving lower in the sky, thus the shadows got longer, simple answer!
Try chalk shadow tracing and see what your kiddos think! For more play ideas check out We Play at Childhood 101!
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