Author Archives: Ms Kristin

we made this one day after a few preschoolers using their fists a lot.  it’s good for punching, kicking and sitting on. we taped three of our vinyl pillows to a pole in the room.  best move ever.  especially for the extra indoor  time coming this winter.

may you find corners of magic this christmas time. see you in the new year!

when it was L week but also close to christmas, we used lime kool aid to scent the glue for some green candy canes. : )  after gluing on strips of light green paper, they used tiny brushes to paint on the lime glue. it lost almost all its smell once dry (that surprised me),Continue reading “l is for lime candycane”

we altered teacher tom’s “halloween is coming” poem for our christmas pajama parties: christmas time is coming and this is what i’ll do i’ll hide behind this ornament (or snowball) and then i’ll say BOO! with our pajama party lasting all week, we got more and more enthusiastic as the week went on!

we used real sheep wool to cover little ovals of cardboard, then added a ribbon and cardboard sheep face. this was after a day full of mama sheep talk (we covered a large cardboard shaped sheep with toilet paper pieces and made up all sorts of stories about her), making up verses to “baa baaContinue reading “c is for christmas sheep ornaments”