I love making these hash brown patty faces! The kids love them too! It’s super easy to make them and you can do a different face each time. FUN!
This activity was simple to set up. I found some plastic bins and trays and filled them with soapy water. Then the kids washed toy cars with brushes and wash cloths. It was so much fun! They stayed busy for over an hour!
I love summer! We’ve been playing in the sprinkler on hot days. We still find some time for ABC practice though 🙂
I have plastic bins filled with seeds for the kids to dig, bury dinosaurs, use the sand wheel, fill up dump trucks, etc. They love it!
We studied our map of the USA and hung up a large American flag in celebration of Independence Day. The kids made flags with popsicle sticks and some with tissue paper. And they made glittery fireworks.
Summer is all about sunny days and butterflies! These were made with handprints, they’re so cute!
L is for Ladybug art project. The kids glued them into their notebooks.
A simple notebook is the perfect place for keeping art projects, writing practice, photos, and drawings. Children love to work in their notebook a little each day. They take time to go back and look at what they’ve done in their books and are always so excited to show off all their hard work. Once the notebook is full, the child can keep it forever and start on a new one.
We’ve done several different themes such as seasons, holidays, harvest, and Around The Globe. Most recently we finished our Passport To The Universe unit. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 BLAST OFF!!
We turned Earth Day into Earth week. We celebrated our home planet all week long.
One art project was to create a globe with blue paper cut into a circle and some green paint for land. The biggest land form was made with a big green handprint 🙂
The kids made Happy Earth Day cards for their parents. It was a good project for practice writing, cutting, and assembling.
We also made Earth Day collages and booklets.
Here are some photos from the week:
We learned about the three R’s: reduce, reuse, and recycle. The kids reused paper towel rolls and cardboard boxes to make inventions, binoculars, wands, etc.
I had a tray filled with items they could use: chenille stems, stickers, ribbons, google eyes, streamers, hole punch, tape, glue, etc.
The kids love to make inventions. They use items such as Mega Bloks, Legos, wood blocks, construction paper, egg cartons, paper tubes, ribbons, etc.
They can be very creative! And they love to show off what they’ve made.
Today I had several supplies ready for them to build with. They used chenille stems, paper tubes, stickers, markers, cardboard boxes, hole punch, tape and glue. I had some felt out as well but no one used it this time around…
Here’s what they made:
Warmer weather has finally arrived and most of the snow has melted! Hooray! We’ve been doing a lot of crafts and projects about Spring, April, and Easter. Some of our favorite little rhymes are: “Green grass, blue skies, Easter eggs, and butterflies!” and “April showers bring May flowers”. The kids love our Easter joke: “What is the Easter Bunny’s favorite game?” HOPSCOTCH!! 😀
We’ve been decorating foam eggs and bunnies with glitter pens, markers, and stickers.
The kids have been very busy making lots of colorful Spring artwork.
The frog says, “Hoppy Spring!” 😀
We love to decorate our door each month. The kids worked hard on paper tube butterflies and painted paper flowers to make beautiful springtime décor
We also made these colorful Rainbow Fish with their handprints. We used green and yellow crepe paper for the seaweed.
We love to decorate the door with a theme.
February was hearts, Love, Red, Pink, The letter V, and Valentines Day.
March is St Patricks Day, Rainbows, Clovers, Green, and Luck.
My last post was a month ago. Wow, time flies during the holidays / years end. I have between 3 and 8 children each day. We stay busy with themes, writing, math, doing mazes and puzzles and word finds, we read books, do storytelling, and of course we do a lot of craft and art projects.
For November we focused on the history of Thanksgiving, pilgrims, Indians, being Thankful, making a chain of thanks, Autumn, farming and harvest.
In December we did crafts based on Santa Claus and winter, counting to Christmas by adding a piece to Santa’s Beard everyday, singing holiday songs & reading holiday books, assembling Elves and Santas, and doing holiday writings. When it wasn’t below zero we braved the great outdoors to play in the snow.
For January we will be doing a snowman theme. We started with our melted snowman project. There is a cute poem that goes with the art project (I made a little snowman, I gave him a black hat, the sun came out and melted him, and now my snowman is flat). It’s fun because it is abstract art! Any age can do the activity. You’ll need a blob (melted snowman) cut out of white paper. The kids can glue eyes, nose, and hat on the blob in any place they like because it doesn’t matter how it looks, he’s a melted snowman! 😀 Then attach the poem! The kids really liked this project.
Then each child made a snowman with their footprint. I did their footprint with white paint. We let them dry and then we added features (eyes, nose, mouth, scarf, stick arms) and the kids got to pull apart cotton balls to glue to the bottom of their artwork as snow.
Next we’ll make snowmen using a photo of the kid’s head for their snowman’s head! I think it will be so cute. I printed each child’s photo to use for the project and pre cut several white circles to build snowmen. Preparing as much beforehand as you can will help make the day and projects go smoothly.
We’ll be doing another poem activity:
I made a little snowball,
As perfect as can be,
I thought I’d keep it as a pet,
And let it sleep with me.
I made it some pajamas,
And a pillow for its head,
Then last night it ran away,
But first it wet the bed.
We’ll be making snowmen with popsicle sticks and a snowman spelling each child’s name (One letter per snowball).
I like to brainstorm ideas on paper. Then gather supplies to make the projects. Then pre cut and prepare what I can ahead of time.
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