i did this for micah’s birthday once with a dinosaur theme. at preschool we use this for any letter of the alphabet since we can hide anything in the ice (except maybe u or x things…ideas, anyone?)! appleseeds, counter bears, coins, dinosaurs, elephants, fake flower petals, green things, horses, jewels, keys, lace, money, nuts, oContinue reading “i is for ice”
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s is for symmetry…or same : )
what i like about these projects is the versatility…this can be done with many colors of paint as b is for butterfly or white paint for e is for egg. quite simply the preschooler gets to squirt or spoon blobs of paint on a paper, then the teacher helps fold it carefully in half, thenContinue reading “s is for symmetry…or same : )”
t is for turkey
we finger-painted huge pieces of butcher paper (red, orange, brown and yellow) and once dry, cut it into leaf shapes. these hung from our ceiling and in the hallway for over a month…then it was thanksgiving time. we took the leaves down and added a paper body to turn our leaves into turkeys! we evenContinue reading “t is for turkey”
b is for blue
or really it could be g is green or p is for purple or any other color. we fingerpaint first with the goal being to keep some of the paper showing around the edge (an exercise in self control) to make a “frame.” then we used these after all the foam got pulled out toContinue reading “b is for blue”
b is for birthday
i love to honor the birthday child in the classroom. we bring the knitted cupcakes from katie to the housekeeping corner and bring out the birthday puzzle to the puzzle corner. at circle time before snack, we make a little cake out of playdoh (and joke that if they don’t watch out their mamas andContinue reading “b is for birthday”
