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r is for rivers, roads and rails

this is a wonderful puzzle game. i made it simpler by using only the pieces with one river, road or rail.

s is for suncatcher

we cut plastic binder dividers into strips, then snipped more, then pressed them on a piece of laminate, then added another piece of laminate on top. when the pieces of colored plastic would overlap, we would see color blending. beautiful.

r is for rainbow kite

actually, i thought of these as wind-catchers, but the preschoolers exclaimed things like, “oh yeah! a kite!”…so they became kites. the first step was cutting a hole out of the center. any kind of hole. i learned quickly (and should have known!) to poke the scissor through first (thankfully we avoided hurt children). then wasContinue reading “r is for rainbow kite”

c is for color wheel

a big piece of cardboard. remaining paint from our rainbow stripes. found objects. 3+ bottles of glue. ahhhhhh. color wheel.

r is for rainbow

oh joy was mine. we worked left to right following a sample chart of rainbow order to paint stripes. this was a hard concept to grasp at first. in order for the paint to dry by the end of the morning, we made prints with another piece of paper. this was pretty exciting! then weContinue reading “r is for rainbow”