What I do is look at seasons, holidays, and wacky holidays. Can I make a fun and educational week on the topic? Then I gather the subtopics so I can touch on a variety of things.
I balance the type of activity and blend topics together-like today we did rocketship shakers-you got the art aspect plus music. We accompanied it with a quick world music video on percussions.

July is National Ice Cream Month-we made Ice Cream week educational. I shaved ivory soap, added a few drips of warm water, and they mixed it and I put colors of their choice in it. Science, art, and sensory. We wrapped it over a styrofoam ball and I hot glued it to a cone. They then used fine motor skills to put colored rice on the top of their cone.
We did 2 impromptu activities-took a chunk of regular soap and ivory and we predicted (and put it on a graph) if it would sink or float (science and math) and we took some soap and put it in the microwave and watched it expand. We predicted results (more science skills).
We made ice cream, naturally- cooking is math & science.

$ Tree sells ice cream bubbles-after we used them outaide they were put into dress up.
We made cloud dough and used the colored rice for an ice cream parlor.

I could have bought ice cream scoops as well but did not. Lots more but I can't think of it now.

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