note: this activity was done during a week long camp
called “way back when…” for 4 & 5 year olds at our local museum.

this was simply a quill feather and a little cup of liquid watercolor (or food coloring).

children dip and draw, dip and draw, dip and draw….just like way back when.

note: this activity was done during a week long camp
called “way back when…” for 4 & 5 year olds at our local museum.

i didn’t plan to have my basket of “wheels” out all week, but it was a hit that stayed.

the museum had several metal hoops for rolling, and i added rolls of tape (simpley to have more).

they loved it. i want to remember this for preschool (b for bus wheel, c for car wheel, r for roll, etc).

we also made horseshoe and wagon wheel prints using plastic cups (wheels) and styrofoam cups with a notch cut out (horseshoe).

another phase of the move is done.

we are returning to our church (where we were in operation for 7 years) after nearly 7 more years at the retirement home.

it is a bittersweet transition…but we are definitely “coming home.”

thank you to the nearly 40 helpers we had ranging in age from 3 to 80-some.

note: this activity was done during a week long camp
called “way back when…” for 4 & 5 year olds at our local museum.

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depending on who you asked, these were called pouches or purses (or one little friend insisted it was a BAG).

this was a simple 8 inch diameter circle of fabric with little slits cut around the perimeter. children threaded a shoe lace (i bought the leather looking kind) through each hole (VERY tricky for some of us. we used a piece of tape to hold the lace in place and then took the tape away) and then a teacher tied the ends together. these work as little drawstring bags.

we had a selection of buttons that children counted out and put in their pouch/purse/bag (it happened to be 5 white and 1 colored).

the purses/pouches/bags couldn’t go home on the day we made them because we needed them for something…

note: this activity was done during a week long camp
called “way back when…” for 4 & 5 year olds at our local museum.

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during our week of exploring life way back when, we ate snack on bandanas and called them our “picnic cloths.”

the first day children chose a bandana and we wrote their names on them.

there was a place in our “classroom” to hang them when they weren’t in use.

our snacks for the week were related to our themes:

on transportation day we ate wagon wheels and horse food (honeycomb cereal and carrots)

on homes day we ate big and small logs (pretzels).

on clothing day we ate washtubs and fabric squares (individual applesauces and saltines).

there was also quite bit of creativity expressed during our relaxed snack times:

it sure was funny to go home and tell families we ate logs, wagon wheels, horse food, wash tubs and fabric squares. hee hee hee.

it was wonderful to be graced with beautiful weather for outdoor picnics 3 days of the week…but our inside picnic worked just fine.