Workshop Wednesday

One more Easter activity. Have fun!

Hand Print Whiskers for Bunny
Materials:
1 large sheet of construction paper

brown or white, pink, off-white, black construction paper for bunny
scissors
paper punches (optional)
glue
sharpie
black paint
paint brush

Directions:
1. using your white or brown paper cut out a bunny face shape and glue it to your large cardstock.
2. using your pink paper, cut out a cute nose and some inner ears and glue on bunny.
3. using a small circle punch or scissors, punch 2 eyes out of your off-white paper and glue on bunny.
4. using a hole punch or scissors, punch 2 small circles out of your black paper and glue to middle of eyes.
5. using your sharpie, draw on a mouth.
6. paint your child's palms black and have them stamp them on the bunny to make whiskers. Allow to dry.



Idea taken from Jill Dubien



Transition Tuesday

In the Garden
(Tune: Up on the Housetop)

Look in the garden,
There I see
Ten little carrots growing merrily
Rabbit came and ate one
Oops, Oh No!
Now there's only nine carrots in the row.

Last line:
Now there's NO carrots in the row!

Feature Friday

"Five Green Speckled Frogs" Masks

Act out "Five Green Speckled Frogs" by using frog masks. I recently conducted a workshop in Dillon, SC and the 4K teachers made frog masks to go along with the fingerplay/song. The masks are made from felt and foam. A small piece of elastic is attached to both sides of the mask. The teachers had a ball making them and I know the children will LOVE being the 5 frogs! A BIG thanks to the 4K teachers in Dillon!

Five green speckled frogs

Frog masks can be made any color. Just change the song.

Sat on a speckled log

Eating some most delicious bugs...yum yum!

One jumped into the pool

Where it was nice and cool
Then there were four green speckled frogs.

Continue counting down. The last line would be:

One green speckled frog
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs...yum yum!
He jumped into the pool

Where it was nice and cool

Then there were no green speckled frogs.

Workshop Wednesday

Rotten Egg Game

Materials: egg stickers to make the gameboards and game pieces; cardstock; plastic eggs; small easter basket. Place the stickers on cardstock strips. Place matching stickers on cardstock and cut out so they will fit in a plastic egg.

Directions: Two children may play this game.  To play, they each take a gameboard and then take turns opening one egg at a time.  If the egg contains a paper egg that matches one on their board, they place it on their gameboard and place the empty shell off to the side.  If they open the "rotten" (black) egg, they must put it back and also put one egg from their board back into the basket.  If they open an egg that doesn't match any on their board, they also return it to the basket.  Play continues until one player has matched all their eggs.



Taken from My Montessori Journey



Workshop Wednesday

Spring Craft: Personalized Kite

March is the time for kite making, and these personalized kites are cool! Cut a 9” x 12” sheet of colorful construction paper into a nine-inch square. Turn the square on a tabletop to make a diamond shape. Paint a child’s hand with white tempera paint; then have him make handprints on the paper as shown. Use a marker to print the child’s name in the center. Next, have the child remove his shoes and socks. Paint the bottoms of his bare feet with white paint; then have him step onto another different-colored sheet of construction paper. Repeat this step twice to make a total of six footprints. When the paint is dry, cut around the footprints. Tape one end of a length of ribbon or crepe paper streamer to the back of the diamond; then tape the footprint cutouts to the ribbon to resemble bows. Now go fly a kite!



Taken from Mailbox Magazine