A fun, eco-friendly activity to reinforce what children have learned about snakes and to build team-work. Â Reinforce study about snakes. Learn to identify patterns. Use recycled materials to create a creative piece of artwork. Develop a sense of team work in building something together. Use fine motor skills to practice tying knots or twist […]
Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. (Author), John Archambault (Author), Lois Ehlert (Illustrator). In this bright and lively rhyme, the letters of the alphabet race each other to the top of the coconut tree. When X, Y, and Z finally scramble up the trunk, however, the weight is too much, and down […]
 Try this fun, open-ended three-dimensional activity. Children will love experimenting with the various ways to use the materials.  To reinforce fine motor skills To promote hand-eye coordination To encourage cooperative play To encourage tactile exploration   Before You Start: You will need smooth and pliable air-dry clay, paper plates (or trays), various […]
For our stART project this week, we read The Eency Weency Spider and made bottle top spiders. My kids LOVE this book because it is musical and you can push a button and sing along as you read the book. It is about ten little spiders who creatively find ways to get up the waterspout. […]
 It’s like drawing with 3 mediums in one project.  Fill an ice -cube tray with Tempera paint. Insert a craft stick into each cube & freeze. When completely frozen, paint draws like chalk. As it softens, the effect is as a crayon, and then like paint. This demonstrates solids becoming liquids.
This project is one that came to me after we were left with an overabundance of packing material from some Christmas deliveries. I hate to throw that stuff away when I know I can use it for something else. So here is our recycled snowman. Cut out the silhouette of a snowman from a piece […]
The Night Before Christmas Pop-up by Clement Clarke Moore and Robert Sabuda Twas The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg Seven Candles For Kwanzaa by Andrea Davis Pinkney Inside-Out Grandma by Joan Rothenberg A Snowman Named Just Bob by Mark Kimball Moulton […]
  Tempera paint and paintbrushes 1 toilet paper tube 1 paper towel tube, cut into two different lengths Colored paper (for faces and mittens) Black marker and pink pencil Glue Sheet music (from a songbook or gift wrap) 3 child’s socks String or raffia  Paint the tubes and set them aside to dry. […]
