Author Archives: Ms Kristin

let the children lead us

i come from a long line of people who can make something out of nothing…nothing out of seemingly everything…see redemption in almost anything… get teary at the simple re-telling of meeting a stranger, telling each other, “hey…there’s a sermon in that…”, i’ve also been told i can blow sunshine up places not appropriate to mentionContinue reading “let the children lead us”

c is for {playing with real} coffee

get ready, there were two WHY oh WHY oh WHY have we not done this before moments last week. so, when i realized it was National Coffee Day and it was C week, we painted with left over coffee. we have done that before. back when we were making our treasure maps (AAAARGH!). i movedContinue reading “c is for {playing with real} coffee”

c is for coloring water with markers!

i saw it first on pinterest. it was better than i thought. markers-new or old- dipped in cups of water makes an amazing sight of color. the color bleeds out, mixes with others, saturates a little vessel of water. one common technique among all classes was to add a marker to a cup, then leave.Continue reading “c is for coloring water with markers!”

t is for tool {glue guns and big hole punchers, to be exact}

well, we jumped on the bandwagon that has been rolling along for quite some time and we used low temp glue guns. this joined in the category of “things we can do at preschool that you might not be able to do at home.” like many have reported, the children knew the silver part wasContinue reading “t is for tool {glue guns and big hole punchers, to be exact}”