oh, how i wish model magic was more affordable! since it isn’t, our friday class was the group to sculpt transportation. we named the colors, counted together as i cut them apart (since that couldn’t be done ahead of time in fear of it hardening), then gave each child a plate of pieces. there wereContinue reading “t is for transportation”
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r is for rainbow in a jar
thankful for a couple of sunny days, we found a rainbow in a jar. actually, not in the jar (as some tried to find), but by sunlight shining through the water in the jar. then we took rainbow crayons, drew what we saw along with the capital R shape. who would have guessed the nextContinue reading “r is for rainbow in a jar”
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.
