** there are enough activities to take you through many days! **
Lets read The Black Rabbit by Philippa Leathers
Who was Black Rabbit? Why was he only there sometimes?
I wonder what a shadow is? To understand shadows, first, we need to talk about light.
Where does light come from? Light comes from the sun, from fire and also from energy powered tools like a flashlight or a lightbulb.
Light can only travel in straight lines. If light hits a solid object, it can't go around it! The object blocks the light, and a shadow is made behind the object.
Where is your shadow? If the light shines on your back, then your shadow is in front of you. If the light is shining on your front (like in your face), then your shadow is behind you!
This book, Shadows by Suzy Lee is a wordless picture book. The girl in it uses her imagination to picture what the shadows might be.You might want to pause on every page to get a better look at the illustrations! We spend a lot of time looking when I show this book in the classroom! The joy of the actual paper book is that you can turn it over to see the "real" picture or the imagined shadow right side up. If you have an ipad, and lock the rotation, it might work!
Here is an image from the book:
Parents! you can set up a light and shadow centre at home for your child to explore. This is a great activity for a rainy day!
you will need
- a room that can be made a bit dark, or a dark corner of a room (this was quite hard to find in our very bright, window filled classroom!)
- a source of light - a lamp, a projector, or a flashlight.
Can you make a shadow puppet with your hand?
Can you make a story with light and shadows?
You can make some cut-out shadow puppets too. Just cut them out of heavy paper or cardboard and attach to a chopstick, straw or stick! You can click HERE if you need instructions.
You can add some objects for more exploration:
*a light table, or make one with a clear or translucent bin and a battery operated light inside, or flip it over and put the light underneath it!(or a string of white Christmas lights!) (make sure you use small lightbulbs that don't get really hot)
For the light table:
- objects that can block OR reflect the light, OR that light can shine through. For example: any coloured plastic that is see- through (cups, plastic ice cubes, magnatiles, plastic alphabet fridge magnets), an old cd, a jar of clear water (lid screwed on tight!), small jars of coloured water (lids screwed on tight!), a mirror, translucent buttons, xrays, transparent lego, marble gems, gel window stickers, look around your house, im sure you have something.
- dark paper with some holes punched in it to shine the light through. You can even punch them in the designs of constellations and shine a flashlight through to make the constellations project onto your ceiling!
Lets make some shadow drawings! You might need to wait for a sunny day to do this! Shadow drawings are so fun. They are best done in the first part of the morning or the late afternoon, so the shadows are the longest.
You can go outside with another person and trace around their shadow with chalk! You can make them pose in funny poses and then trace it!
You can also make a shadow drawing with a toy! You will need a place to draw near a sunny window, or go outside to do it. You might have to wait for a sunny day to do this, or you can use a flashlight.
Parents!After I had finished my blogpost, I found an excellent book about Light and Shadow. It has many activities (many similar ones are above), and goes into more depth about light and shadows. It is a great book to explore. If you click on the book, the link will take you to the ebook.
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