A Field of Corn!
My kids love corn. They have never really seen corn that had just been picked, so I found two ears for us to play with and learn about! I showed them the ears of corn and we talked about what they were and the part of the corn we could see was called the husk. I then gave each child their own ear of corn to take the husk off. This was a great fine motor activity. My two year old ripped his apart before the 5 year old. I do not know if you can tell from the picture, but the 2 year old tried to bit into his corn right after removing the husk! They then washed their ears of corn in a bucket. I then took the corn inside to let it cook and we then began some fun craft activities to go along with the corn theme! My son's ear of corn had a surprise inside! There were to small ears of corn hidden within the husks. My daughter wanted to know if she could eat the "baby corn." I told her, "no," but we would do something fun with ...