Ms Kristin

m is for mother’s day

this was mother’s day 2007’s project. we had non-mamas come in to help preschoolers by using hot glue guns (a pin back was added to the pre-cut foam flower shape). preschoolers placed items where they wanted them and the grownups glued them in place. with encouragement to add as much as they liked in “collage”Continue reading “m is for mother’s day”

e is for ear

we make “super ears” with empty toilet paper rolls and colored masking tape (really we could have used anything to decorate these, though i wouldn’t use markers because i h.a.t.e. how markers smear). what makes these super ears is that when you put the tube over your ear, everything sounds louder. of course we haveContinue reading “e is for ear”

n is for newspaper

what i love about these kind of projects is when we see it extended. so yes, this was squares of newspaper glued on a block n form, but what you can’t see are the dictations of what it really is: “the top of one side is a volcano” “the top of the other side isContinue reading “n is for newspaper”

z is for zebra

or z is for zebra stripes on a carboard z. q-tips as brushes and black liquid watercolor paint after a discussion of why zebras might have stripes…

y is for yarn

oh, joy. we made a HUGE spider web, working on it for a week. we used donated/thrifted yarn and with four points tied to furniture, we wove and wove. under and over. sometimes the balls of yarn would be thrown to a friend across the web. only one did a supporting shelf get pulled overContinue reading “y is for yarn”