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Whether or not your family celebrates Halloween, the chance to mix, mash and mull "fall brew" can stimulate your child's imagination, activate multiple senses and strengthen emerging STEM skills. Toss in a few special ingredients, and the learning gets even more sensational.
If you do not celebrate Halloween, talk about stews, ciders and other Fall concoctions that your family enjoys. Wonder together how they are made? How could we pretend to make our own?
Stirring our Brew
Stirring and stirring and stirring our brew. (motion as if to stir)
Ooooo-oooo. Ooooo-oooo. (cup hands around your mouth as you howl)
Stirring and stirring and stirring our brew.
Ooooo-oooo. Ooooo-oooo.
Tiptoe. Tiptoe. Tiptoe... (tip toe)
BOO! (jump and yell, Boo!)
Teaming up to make Fall "brew" supports children on many levels. First, the very act of transforming water into "brew" by adding, mixing and mashing different materials supports children with the transforming schema. Further, gathering ingredients fuels the transporting schema. Both schema are part of a series of brain-boosting behavior patterns in which young children engage worldwide. Children also use their senses to discover and explore various "ingredients" as they concoct their brew. Finally, children of all ages exercise their imaginations as they pretend, whether you are spooky witches or chefs at work. Even your youngest explorer can pretend to cook—a most accessible play scenario. Your older and more advanced explorers model for the younger.
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