i buy these large cardboard alphabet shapes each year. then as we work our way through, we coopratively glue things on to represent that letter. here we have egg shells glued on the e. other favorites i can remember: apple seeds on a buttons on b crayon chunks on c dirt on d fake furContinue reading “e is for egg shell (and 25 others)”
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s is for stick art
once again, the magic of glue. we put out saucers of glue and invite preschoolers to dip sticks in and spread glue as needed. then begins the creation of craft stick sculptures. we talk about dimensions as we build these basically flat creations. i still see a small one hanging in a preschool mama’s carContinue reading “s is for stick art”
s is for secondary colors
really, this can be called c is for color or b is for blue or y is for yellow or g is for green or r is for red or o is for orange or p is for purple, because it is an activity we do in the study of secondary colors. we put aContinue reading “s is for secondary colors”
z is for zipper
oh, that tricky letter z. not much beyond zebras, zig zags, zooming cars and planes, zweibach. so we do things with zippers. we wear zippers to school, practice zipping our dress up vests, listen to different zipping sounds. this year i gave zippers away as a goodbye gift: zippidee-doo-dah, zippidee-day…keep learning and growing each summerContinue reading “z is for zipper”
m is for mother’s day ii
in a top-secret corner of the room, we made mother’s day bead strands which could be worn as a choker-style necklace (quite literally due to shorter-than-i-planned wire), a wrap around bracelet, or a longer necklace if mama would add a bit of string. there was a random assortment of beads, cut apart leis, straws, thenContinue reading “m is for mother’s day ii”
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