Let’s Get Wet!

Materials

• water table or large tub; plastic wading pool (if outside)
• containers of different sizes and shapes

Key Science Concepts

• Water takes the shape of its container. 
• You can use lots of different objects to move water.

Directions

1. Gather children around a water table or large tub with different containers nearby. (Give children turns at the water table, limiting the number to four or five at one time.)
2. Have children explore the different things they can do with water and ask:
   • What can you do with water?
   • What does the water look like in the container?
   • What do you think it would look like if I pour it into another container? What is the same and what is different?
   • If I wanted the water to be in a square shape, what do you think I could do?