Saturday, February 14, 2015

Love Bug - Valentine's Day Project!

Happy Valentine's Day, All!
Here is a quick and very cute project.
It is a project for Valentine's Day - a headband!

I prepped the red headbands with the pipe cleaners (taped them) before giving them to the children.
For this project, children used red poster board paper, black construction paper for the bug's head, white construction paper for the eyes, pipe cleaners, markers, glue, scissors, hearts.
First, they colored the words "Love Bug!".
They cut a piece of black construction paper for the head and made eyes out of white construction paper. They colored the pupils with markers. I measured their heads and stapled it together!
Voila! Cute!!!

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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Hearts - Valentine's Day!

This year we made another version of our heart projects. Be sure to check out my other Valentine's Day post which has another fun hearts project!

For this one, I created a document with hearts within hearts and the sentence "I love you to pieces.", with one letter in each square.
I copied the background heart document on pink paper and gave one piece to each student.
Students had lots of colorful pieces of construction paper which they ripped and glued on the hearts.
You can use construction paper or colorful tissue paper.

They also colored the sentence squares, cut each square and reassembled the sentence, like a puzzle.
You could have students color or paint each letter square, let it dry and then have the kids cut and reassemble.

They turned out really cute!

Would you like to make this?
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I hope your students love it as much as mine did! :-)

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Snowmen - Post # 2 of many!

I just love this snowman project!
The snowmen are happy and enjoying the snowfall!
We read "Snowmen at Night" and the children had a lot of fun creating these snowmen.
We talked about fiction vs. nonfiction based on the book we read, why we can't see the snowmen's eyes, how they look upward and loving the snow falling down!
I gave each child a piece of black construction paper and made available lots of colorful pieces of construction paper.

The kids thought it was funny how the snowmen's noses are "hanging in the air!" and they had fun walking "like the snowmen with their noses pointing to the ceiling!" It takes so little for five and six year olds to have fun, doesn't it?

Children made patterns on the snowmen's scarves using two different colors of construction paper. They used black markers to draw the smiles1

For the snowflakes, my students used white paint and made "fingerprint snowflakes" around the snowman!

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Snowmen - Post #1 of many!

We like to make all kinds of fun snowmen projects!
Here is another snowman project that my students really enjoyed!
The children painted the snowmen using pencil erasers.
I started by giving each child a piece of construction paper. They each traced the outline of their snowman and then painted it by dipping the pencil eraser in white paint.
Construction paper of various colors was used for the scarves, hats, boots and arms.

First thing: construction paper, pencils and white paint.

Each child drew the outline of his/her snowman first and then started painting it using the pencil eraser and white paint. One child commented that his snowman is made of many snowballs all put together! :)

Children used construction paper for scarves, boots, hats, and arms.

I really like how they each used different colors and created patterns on the scarves! Also, the arms are so cute: different in length and the number of "branches"!

My students used black markers for the eyes and some of the buttons, while other students chose to use construction paper for the buttons. Here are some of the projects drying up!