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Kelly's Busy Bee Learning Center We believe children learn through play.

Play is a source of fun and pleasure, a way of practicing and perfecting skills and gives children a chance to use their imagination in creative and dramatic play.

10/10/2026

Tuesday we have guest from the Health Department coming in to talk to the children about Halloween Safety. If you fo not want your child to participate please let us know. 🎃 👻 Thank You

Part 2 This multi-sensory, nature-based craft activity is an exceptional way for young children to build a wide range of...
10/09/2026

Part 2
This multi-sensory, nature-based craft activity is an exceptional way for young children to build a wide range of foundational development skills. By moving from the outdoors to an indoor art project, children engage their minds and bodies through several core domains

• Comparative & Scientific Thinking: Feeling the difference between a pliable, moist green leaf plucked from a branch versus a dry, brittle brown leaf from the ground teaches children about life cycles, moisture content, and seasonal changes. They are actively forming hypotheses about why the leaves feel different.
• Classification and Sorting: Navigating a "leaf hunt" requires visual discrimination. Children learn to categorize items by color (green vs. brown), state of decay, size, and shape.
• Cause and Effect: They learn the physical principle that applying pressure to a dried, brittle object causes it to fracture and crumble, whereas applying the same pressure to a flexible green leaf will only bend or tear it.

• Gross Motor Development: Walking, bending, reaching, and navigating uneven outdoor terrain during the leaf hunt builds core strength, balance, and spatial awareness.
• Fine Motor Strength & Pincer Grasp: Plucking a leaf off a tree, pinching single leaves off the ground, and squeezing glue bottles strengthen the small muscles in the fingers.
• Hand-Eye Coordination & Bilateral Integration: The act of crumbling dried leaves requires two hands working together to perform opposing movements. Placing and gluing the tiny crumbled pieces onto a specific shape (the squirrel) refines spatial control and hand-eye coordination

• Tactile Discrimination: Feeling the distinct textures—waxy/smooth/soft green leaves versus rough, crunchy, and sharp dried leaves—helps organize the child's tactile sensory system.
• Auditory Processing: Crumbling the dry leaves provides immediate acoustic feedback. Children learn to associate the visual and physical state of "dried up" with the sharp, crackling sound it produces.
• Proprioception (Body Awareness): Squeezing the dried leaves teaches children how to modulate their grip force—learning exactly how much pressure is required to crush the leaf into pieces without missing the target or blowing them away

• Vocabulary Expansion: This activity provides natural context for descriptive words like brittle, pliable, crunchy, smooth, veins, decay, texture, and crush.
• Texture-Based (Process) Art: Using real-world objects rather than standard crayons or markers expands their understanding of media and texture in creative expression. Representing a fuzzy animal like a squirrel using rough, organic leaf litter promotes symbolic thinking

This multi-sensory, nature-based craft activity is an exceptional way for young children to build a wide range of founda...
10/09/2026

This multi-sensory, nature-based craft activity is an exceptional way for young children to build a wide range of foundational development skills. By moving from the outdoors to an indoor art project, children engage their minds and bodies through several core domains

• Comparative & Scientific Thinking: Feeling the difference between a pliable, moist green leaf plucked from a branch versus a dry, brittle brown leaf from the ground teaches children about life cycles, moisture content, and seasonal changes. They are actively forming hypotheses about why the leaves feel different.
• Classification and Sorting: Navigating a "leaf hunt" requires visual discrimination. Children learn to categorize items by color (green vs. brown), state of decay, size, and shape.
• Cause and Effect: They learn the physical principle that applying pressure to a dried, brittle object causes it to fracture and crumble, whereas applying the same pressure to a flexible green leaf will only bend or tear it.

• Gross Motor Development: Walking, bending, reaching, and navigating uneven outdoor terrain during the leaf hunt builds core strength, balance, and spatial awareness.
• Fine Motor Strength & Pincer Grasp: Plucking a leaf off a tree, pinching single leaves off the ground, and squeezing glue bottles strengthen the small muscles in the fingers.
• Hand-Eye Coordination & Bilateral Integration: The act of crumbling dried leaves requires two hands working together to perform opposing movements. Placing and gluing the tiny crumbled pieces onto a specific shape (the squirrel) refines spatial control and hand-eye coordination

• Tactile Discrimination: Feeling the distinct textures—waxy/smooth/soft green leaves versus rough, crunchy, and sharp dried leaves—helps organize the child's tactile sensory system.
• Auditory Processing: Crumbling the dry leaves provides immediate acoustic feedback. Children learn to associate the visual and physical state of "dried up" with the sharp, crackling sound it produces.
• Proprioception (Body Awareness): Squeezing the dried leaves teaches children how to modulate their grip force—learning exactly how much pressure is required to crush the leaf into pieces without missing the target or blowing them away

• Vocabulary Expansion: This activity provides natural context for descriptive words like brittle, pliable, crunchy, smooth, veins, decay, texture, and crush.
• Texture-Based (Process) Art: Using real-world objects rather than standard crayons or markers expands their understanding of media and texture in creative expression. Representing a fuzzy animal like a squirrel using rough, organic leaf litter promotes symbolic thinking

We are having it on this day so all the children can make it.
10/08/2026

We are having it on this day so all the children can make it.

10/08/2026

Children use several physical, cognitive, and social-emotional skills while playing the classic Elefun butterfly-(leaves) catching game

• Hand-eye coordination: Tracking the flying leaves and aiming the net to catch them in mid-air.
• Gross motor skills: Running, jumping, reaching up high, and moving quickly around the floor to chase floating or fallen leaves.
• Visual-motor coordination: Judging the distance, speed, and trajectory of the lightweight leaves as they shoot out of the elephant's 3-to-3.5-foot trunk.
• Bilateral coordination: Using both hands together—one hand to hold the net handle and the other to position or stabilize it

• Focus and concentration: Directing visual attention toward the trunk to anticipate when and where the leaves will pop out.
• Counting and basic math: Counting the collected leaves or matching leaves at the end of the round to see who won.
• Cause and effect: Observing how turning on the motorized fan pushes air through the trunk to launch the toys

• Turn-taking and following rules: Playing alongside 2 to 4 players, sharing a shared space, and waiting for the round to start or end.
• Coping with friendly competition: Managing excitement, winning, or losing in a fast-paced, low-stakes game environment

Engaging children in an activity where they pick out fake leaves from a pile and chart them by size (big, medium, and sm...
10/07/2026

Engaging children in an activity where they pick out fake leaves from a pile and chart them by size (big, medium, and small) builds a wide range of foundational cognitive, physical, and mathematical skills

Children build key physical, cognitive, and creative abilities when painting fall leaves on a tree using cotton balls• P...
10/06/2026

Children build key physical, cognitive, and creative abilities when painting fall leaves on a tree using cotton balls

• Pincer grasp and finger control: Holding a cotton ball directly or gripping a tool like a clothespin or wooden peg builds the small muscles in the fingers and hands needed later for writing.
• Bilateral coordination: Children use both hands together—one hand to steady the paper or hold a clothespin, and the other to dip and stamp.
• Hand-eye coordination: Aiming the cotton ball specifically onto the tree branches or template requires visual tracking and muscle control

• Dab-and-dot control: Using a dabbing motion instead of long strokes teaches children to modulate pressure—pressing too hard squishes the cotton, while pressing too lightly leaves no mark.
• Texture exploration: Children feel the soft, squishy texture of cotton versus the slickness of wet paint and paper.
• Spatial planning: Filling out the tree canopy teaches concepts of boundary, density, and layout (learning where branches end and where leaves should cluster).

• Color theory and mixing: Experimenting with warm autumn shades like red, orange, yellow, and brown helps children recognize and combine colors.
• Seasonal and scientific awareness: Connecting the craft to real-world changes helps kids understand why green leaves transition to autumn colors.
• Focus and patience: The repetitive, process-oriented motion of dabbing builds attention span and task completion

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1306 Ste Gen Avenue
Farmington, MO
63640

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Monday 6am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 6am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 6am - 5:30pm
Thursday 6am - 5:30pm
Friday 6am - 5:30pm

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+15733660511

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