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”
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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”
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”
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…
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