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”
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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”
r is for rainbow play doh
and yes, by the end of the week it was a warm chocolate brown.
o is for orange
oh, my kids were hopeful when i brought home a box of orange koolaid singles. but no, it was for preschool. to which eliza beamed at the older two. we didn’t drink it, though! i had it out on our project table but didn’t draw specific attention to it. when we went to circle time,Continue reading “o is for orange”
