Earth Day is April 22, and this year we are focusing on what pollution does to our planet. This is more of a pollution activity than a sensory bin but, Madison played in the mess after so I'm including it as a sensory bin.
This was so easy to set up, I put a container of clean water in front of her and had garbage, (vegetable) oil, and I also added some crackers for Madison to crush up!
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| She had to test it to make sure it was plain ol' water. |
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| Everything set out and ready for her to "pollute" the water! |
The idea behind this activity is trying to clean the water after it's been polluted. To really get the full effect of everything that you litter or throw in the water effects the water, you want to use stuff that's hard to clean as well as things that your child can just pick up.
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| Crumbling up crackers into the water. |
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| Adding in the oil |
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| Madison's final mess. |
After everything is in your water, it's time to try and clean it up! For this part, I highly recommend your child NOT be wearing a white dress! ;)
Some thing were easy to clean up, like the bottle and other garbage.
Other things, like the oil, food coloring, and cracker crumbs we could not get out. We talked about things we could do to clean the water and how much extra effort and money goes into these.
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