First day of spring!

Happy Spring!
I've seen this craft idea a few times, and I think it is really cute! We did this today at the Y for TGIF. Sweetpea stayed at my house with Grandma while I was there, so she wanted to do one when I got home. We took a blue piece of construction paper and glued 5 green strips on it.

Next we used 5 mini cupcake holders flatened, and glued one on each stem. After that she glued five mini cupcake holders to the centers.

Finally she glued on some leaves.

Isn't it sweet!

Here is a poem we glued onto it at the Y:

5 Little Daffodils Fingerplay
One little daffodil had nothing much to do,
Out popped another one, then there were two.
Two little daffodils were smiling at a bee,
Out popped another one, then there were three.
Three little daffodils were growing by the door,
Out popped another one and then there were four.
Four little daffodils were glad to be alive,
Out popped another one and then there were five.
Five little daffodils were wearing golden crowns,
They danced in the breeze in green satin gowns.

I got this over at http://katiesnestingspot.blogspot.com/2009/03/storytime-art-cupcake-holder-daffodils.html

Crafts again!

We did a lot of crafts the last couple of weeks. I found the rainbow theme to be easy to incorporate crafting. I got the idea from these two crafts at two different blogs. No time for flash cards, and just for fun I think. I really anjoy browsing many blogs to get inspiration, and then adapt what I find to what I have. The first craft is a rainbow with a pot of gold. I cut two paper plates in half to make the pot and the rainbow. The kids painted the pot brown.

Then they colored the rainbow arch.

I let them color this one any way they wanted.

We then glued them to a piece of construction paper. I had printed some gold coins and they glued thos down also. Finally they sprinkled it with glitter.

Next is R for rainbow. I really liked this one. We used the same strips of construction paper that I had cut last week. I drew an R on white paper and covered it with glue.

Then the kids layed the strips across it in rainbow order.

When they were done I cut the R's out, and the kids glued them onto Black paper. Of course Sweetpea had to add glitter ;)

Color mixing/craft

I have been teaching the kids how to mix secondary colors. Last week we did this project. I sprayed shaving creme into three ziplock bags, then added yellow/blue, blue/red, and yellow/red. The kids squshed them to make green, purple, and orange.

After the colors were mixed we dumped the shaving creme into a pan and swirled it around.

Next the kids took white card stock and layed it on the mixture.



I then wiped the creme of with a napkin, and this is the finished product.

A couple of crafts!

The kid's and I had a really fun week studying rainbows and St. Patrick. Here are a couple crafts we did. I originally got the idea for this craft from the Crafty Crow, but they used Crepe paper. I didn't have enough colors of that around, and being the cheap skate that I am I decided to use construction paper instead. I just cut strips of construction paper in rainbow colors. I also Drew clouds on white cardstock and cut them out.

The kids glued the strips onto the clouds:

Then they glued cotton balls onto the cloud.

The finished product. I think they are very cute ;)
Another craft we did was sunshines. I saw this idea on no time for flashcards a couple of months ago. The kids painted a paper plate yellow and added glitter of course. After the plates dried I traced their hands onto yellow construction paper. I cut them out and the kids glued them to the back of the plate.

The kids painted these shamrocks green.

Then we wrote Father, Son, Holy spirit to show how St. Patrick taught the Irish about the trinity.

I will post a tot school/K roundup post in a few days to show you what else we did.