Sand Art

Colored sand and contact paper make a great, easy art project for young ones. 

Here's What You Need:

• Salt shakers
• Contact paper (clear)
• Card stock paper
• Colored sand
• Masking tape

Here's What You Do:

1. Put the sand into the salt shaker and cover half of the holes to slow the pour.
2. Cut the contact paper a little bit smaller than your card stock paper.
3. Cut the middle out of a card stock leaving a 1 1/2 inch border.
4. Take the backing off of the contact paper and place it sticky side up on the table. 
5. Position the border of card stock over the contact paper and press down.
6. (If you need to store the frames before you use them, put the wax part back onto the sticky part.) 
7. Shake the colored sand over the sticky part to create your picture.

L is for Listen, E is for Ear

We used our ears this week for letter E. They listened to mystery sounds and tried to identify what the sound was. 

I choose 8 things from our class that make noise (bell, maraca, two different baby toys, stapler, baby food jar of water, cymbals, and a wooden clapper). I took a picture of each item and printed them out onto cards. Two kids sat behind a "cubicle" and secretly made a noise using one of the items. The kids on the other side tried to find the matching picture to the sound. 

To make the "cubicle, I taped together two file folders and stood them up as a divider. 

I actually used the "cubicle" for my daughter to do homework when she was having a hard time focusing. She loved having her own little office to work in and she decorated it with pictures on the inside.

Rick Rack Christmas Trees

I couldn't post this before Christmas because it was the present that we made for our parents. So, sorry that this Christmas post is a little late. We made these rick rack Christmas trees to give as gifts to our parents. They turned out so cute and the kids did a great job making them. It was an art and math lesson all in one. The kids worked on their math skills by comparing the lengths of the different ribbons and putting them in order from shortest to longest.

 

 Here's What You Need:

• green rick rack ribbon
• patterned Christmas paper
• a star for the top - we used paper stars
• mat

Here's What You Do:

1. Cut your paper to fit your mat.
2. Cut the rick rack ribbon starting with one bump. Add a bump for each level that you want for your tree. Your tree can be as big or as small as you want it based on your paper and mat size.
3. Put the ribbons and star in a baggie for the kids.
4. Let the kids compare the sizes and put the ribbon in order from shortest to longest. 
5. Glue the ribbons onto your paper in the shape of a tree starting with the shortest at the top in the middle and going down from there. If you want, you can put lines or dots on the paper for the kids to use as a point of reference to insure that the tree is centered.
6. Glue your star at the top.
7. Glue your paper to your mat.

3 Year Old Teddy Bear Picnic.

 Here are some of the pictures from our 3 year old class teddy bear picnic. 

4 Year Old Teddy Bear Picnic

Here are some pictures from the teddy bear picnic with our 4 year old class.