Basic Supplies

I like to keep my activities and projects as simple as I can…I am totally not artistic!
Here’s a list of basic supplies to think about having on hand:

• glue stick
• school glue
• safety scissors
• construction paper
• crayons
• ruler
• watercolor paints
• tempera paints
• paintbrushes & sponges
• pipecleaners
• rubber bands
• blocks or legos
• clothespins
• cardboard boxes ( a packing box and a few empty cereal boxes…I like to use them to cut out solid pieces for various projects)
• colored tissue paper (save from gifts)
• plastic or glass jars (clean out a few spaghetti sauce or apple sauce jars. These are great for storing stuff, like paintbrushes, or for some projects)
• shoebox
• empty egg carton
• empty toilet paper & paper towel tubes
• empty kleenex box
• Play dough (see recipe here)

Don’t worry about going out and buying all of these things. I like to just collect supplies as we go, and you can always improvise!
One other thing that I like to do is to keep a notebook in which I note our topic, the books we read, which ones we liked the most and why, what activities we did, etc. I just think it’s neat to be able to look back at the fun we’ve had!