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Objective:
Creating simple activities to teach life skills
Skill Development: Sensory
Minimum Age: Preschool
Messiness: Medium
Materials
- Hand juicer from PrepWorks
- Similar hand juicer
- Dixie cups
- Oranges {we used smaller ones so fit better in their little hands}
Books to Read
*Reading enhancing the learning environment
🍊Orange Juice kind of day🍊
What better way to incorporate sensory play, learning life skills, and snack time than to create your very own Orange Juice! .
Look how proud they are!
Look how proud they are!
I cut the little oranges in half and gave each child one half.
Almost all of them started licking it so we talked about how does it taste.
I also asked them "What does it smell like?"
I explained how we can make our own orange juice by using this great little juicer. It's stable, holds the juice below in a little cup that has a spout so it was simple for the children to pour their juice right into their little dixie cups.
Allowing them to pour their own juice into a cup teaches hand-eye coordination and life skills.
Things to Discuss:
- What does is feel like?
- What does it smell like?
- How does it taste?