Make-It Topic: Spring Cleaning

Imaginative:

• Place out mini brooms, dust pans, spray bottles, mops, little gloves, and buckets for cleanup fun 
• Place out different clothes for folding and baskets

Language:

• Read the book “ How do dinosaurs clean their room” 
• Read “Maisy cleans up"
•  Read “Curious George cleans up” 
• Sing 5 little mops dusting all around 
• Make a flannel board story about cleaning 
• Make a flannel board using Whmis symbols explain why they are dangerous

Art

• Paint with soap: draw a picture with soap first and paint over it 
• Use shaving cream, glue, and food coloring to paint with 
• Paint with sponges 
• Paint outside using spray bottles 
• Place out large pieces of paper, step in mud and walk across, clean the feet in water at the end 
• Make a collage of cleaning materials 
• Place out a large sheet of paper and a paint tray of water color, give the children brooms to paint with

Water/Sand

• Place soap and sponges in the water table 
• Make clean mud in the water table (toilet tissue and ivory soap mixed with water) 
• Place out small brooms and dust pans in the sand table 
• Place out spray bottles in the water table

Gross Motor

• Place a small vacuum on the floor for the children to vacuum 
• Place out a large bucket of soapy water and sponges have the children wash the toys outside 
• Place out shapes on the floor with brooms, have the children sweep to the shape 
• Have a bean bag toss into a laundry basket 
• Place sponges on the children’s feet, have faces on the floor

Science/Curiosity

• Bubbles 
• Bottles with oil water and glitter 
• Make soap
  Large bowl, 3 cups ivory snow 1 to 11/2 cups water, vegetable oil, essential oils.
  Mix soap flakes with water until feels like play dough, add oil, form into, dry overnight

 Blocks

• Place out small boxes from soap to build with 
• Use sponges of different sizes and shapes to build with

Conceptual/Table top/Fine motor

• Sequence game with different size sponges 
• Cut up pool noodles, place out with kitchen tongs for picking up 
• Lace brooms 
• Use dusters to make a matching game 
• Memory game of cleaning materials 
• Match the hazard signs 
• Make a sorting bin of smaller type toys 
• Make a sequence story of how dinosaurs clean their room 
• Match the cleaning gloves 
• Lace gloves

Music:

• Clean up, clean up, everybody, everywhere clean up, clean up, everybody do your share 
• Make music shakers out of spray bottles 
• Use corn brooms to make music 
• Clean to the drum beat

Quiet

• Make pom-poms using them for cuddle dust bunnies

Field trip

• Go to the store, see the types of cleaning supplies they have 
• Everyone can put on gloves with a brown paper bag, go around the block collecting litter to clean the neighbor hood

 Extensions from the activities

• Sorting toys from the play room 
• Make a cleaning routine for the day home