Edmonton Islamic Child Care Centre

Transportation Shape Exploration
Children explored different shapes by driving toy cars around a large square, circle, and triangle. They identified each shape, followed the outlines with their vehicles, and practiced controlling their movements. This hands-on activity supported shape recognition, fine motor development, hand-eye coordination, and early spatial awareness. The children also enjoyed talking with their friends, sharing vehicles, and using their imagination as they explored the different roads.

Children explored a traffic-themed sensory bin using toy cars, colorful rice, and loose parts. They drove cars, scooped and filled cups, and created roads. This activity supported fine motor skills, sensory exploration, creativity, problem-solving, color recognition, and language while learning simple traffic and transportation vocabulary. 🚗

Traffic lights Activity

The preschool children were learning about Traffic lights and basic road safety.
We discussed what each light means .Red means stop ,yellow means get ready and green means go .

Materials used
* Black constitution paper.
* Red constitution paper.
* Yellow constitution paper .
* Green constitution paper.
* Glue .
This activity helped children develop their fine motor skills through cutting and gluing . While also increasing their understanding of traffic lights and road safety .🚦🚦🚦

☀️ The children enjoyed exploring the sand outdoors on a warm, sunny day. They scooped, poured, dug, and built using different sand toys while working together and sharing materials. This fun sensory activity supported fine motor skills, creativity, imagination, problem-solving, and social interaction while enjoying fresh air and nature. 🌿🏖️

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The children enjoyed a fun summer water sensory activity with sea animals, green leaves, flowers, and water tools. They poured, scooped, and explored the water while practicing sharing and taking turns. This hands-on experience supported fine motor skills, creativity, and summer-themed learning. 💙🐬🦀💦

Children used wooden cork stampers dipped in paint to create colorful prints on paper. They explored colors, patterns, and textures while strengthening their fine motor skills and expressing their creativity.

🍁🇨🇦 Today, the toddlers celebrated Canada Day by coloring a red beaver 🦫, one of Canada’s well-known national animals, using a red crayon ❤️. They also explored the color red ❤️, looked at the Canadian flag 🇨🇦, and talked about the maple leaf 🍁. This fun activity supported fine motor skills ✍️, creativity 🎨, and learning about Canada’s symbols 🇨🇦🍁.

Clay activity

The children were excited to explore Clay and use their imagination to create different farm Animals 🐑 .
They demonstrated creativity fine motor skills. While shopping and molding the Clay and enjoyed talking about the animals.
This activity supported creativity, language and hand-eye coordination

Children made animal footprints using paint and compared the sizes of the footprints. They explored early math concepts by identifying which footprints were bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Today, the children explored the word Sun and learned that it is called شمس in Arabic. They talked about the colors yellow and orange and used paintbrushes to create bright sun paintings. The children were happy, engaged, and excited to participate. This fun activity helped us celebrate the beginning of summer through art, color, and creativity.☀️