Light Table Ideas

Light Table Trees (image only)...sticks and green (or other colors for fall) marble chips

About a year ago I started noticing other bloggers' posts on using light tables with kids. Although they make light tables specifically for kids, I was inspired to ask on our town e-mail list if a former photographer had a table they would be willing to sell of give away. I was pretty excited when someone responded with a homemade one as it seemed perfect for using with kids. We started exploring it just after the winter holidays, when the early evenings were dark and we needed something to…

When I think of all the different activities we do, I am pretty sure that "L" week is one of my favorites! I know I say that a lot, but we always seem to have so much fun. Let me show you some of the highlights of our week . . . Our friend, Larry the Leaping Lizard, was a huge hit! Besides being fun to put together, we used our fingerprints to make the little purple dots on his body. The best part was getting to leap like a lizard all day long. Another fun surprise for the week was our…

The kids have been asking a lot of questions about space. I started out by setting out some invitations to learn around the room for them to explore the Earth and the moon during Thinking, Learning and Dicovering Time, inviting them to look closer and document what they noticed. We looked closer at maps and the kids created their own maps of a community complete with symbols, a key, and a rose compass. They kept asking what the earth was made of so we investigated the inside of the earth and…

Sometimes Graham and Parker like to make collages of their light table toys. Here are some fun examples!! Sometimes they turn out so pretty!! Hope you all enjoy seeing them!

Share your passion for the Star Wars movies with your kids with these fun printable shadow puppets and a torch. Great for literacy development for kids of all ages.

These Children's Play X-Rays are perfect for kids interested in skeletons! Includes 9 play x-rays that can be printed on vellum and enjoyed!

A fun preschool activity with shapes and colors! A set of cards to print on transparency film to create endless combinations of shapes and colors

Valentine's Day invitation to play on the light table from And Next Comes L

Kids discover math patterns though play with a hundred chart on a light table

Diy sand and water tray. Could build for light table also

For light table....cut up colored dividers into shapes, border with masking tape to make durable...great for light exploration, color mixing and shape identification

Make triangles, squares, and other shapes on the light table with these gorgeous rainbow swizzle stick cocktail stirrers!

A beautiful and simple way to explore colors and patterns on the light table with rainbow crystals!

try Ello on light table???

Creating flowers on the light table