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Winding Tape

We'd added blue and yellow food coloring to water to make green. 

 Then the children wanted to do more experiments like that. 

 One of the boys wanted to make a volcano (or maybe it was a tornado) and he had the idea to tape two bottles together. But it didn't stick. 

 Since then some of the children have been winding tape around other objects in the room. Great for fine motor development.

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