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Making a 3D paper heart collage in preschool
Valentine’s day is right around the corner and our Pre-K class got a jump start on it by exploring hearts. We began by reading the simple children’s book titled, “The Day it Rained Hearts” by Felicia...
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Making valentine critters in preschool
I just love seeing all the bright colors of hearts in my classroom right now! They make my whole classroom look so cheerful… Today would have been the perfect day to read the book “My Heart Is Like a...
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Making a trashy collage for earth day
Through some of our reading materials, the children explored ways we can help take care of our earth. One part of this is being aware of what we do with trash…. After we played our “Trashy Fishing...
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Are you all set for father’s day?
My great niece, Clara, made a lovely gift for her daddy, and her mommy emailed over a few pictures of the gift for me to see… In the subject line of the email it said “Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” meaning don’t...
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A sticky square collage
Exploring shapes can be so much fun and lately, we have been focusing on the shape of a square. This activity was a very simple activity for the children to stop by and add a square any time they...
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Artwork A collages
As part of our focus on the letter Aa, we saved some of our group artwork, created the week before, for the children to use in a variety of ways.. Since the group artwork didn’t belong to any one...
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Buttons, buttons, and more buttons
I just love bright and colorful buttons and so whenever I happen to find a bag of them, I pick them up and save them. I finally found the perfect chance to share all the colorful buttons I had saved...
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Torn paper strip sticky collage
Before sharing this simple torn paper strip sticky collage with the children, I told them that we needed to work on building stronger hands and fingers and one of the best ways to do that, is by...
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K is for kaleidoscope designs
Each week we spend a few minutes of our morning exploring the sound of a new letter and this week we explored the sound of the letter K. We use different methods to explore the sounds of our letters....
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Painted paper collages and storytelling inspired by Eric Carle
Eric Carle is well known for beautiful collage-style illustrations that fill the pages of his books. We explored this style of artwork through painted paper story telling and our children created...
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Cardboard collage ornaments
We’ve been busy decorating our classroom this week and these ornaments were just thing our little Christmas tree needed… Mr. Hayden assisted the children in our annual tradition of setting up our...
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Rainbow collages
We recently shared about how we have been using a large mirror as our reflection table. See how we used our cutting scraps from our reflection table activity to create these beautiful rainbow...
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Flower petal glitter for preschool
Real flowers are so beautiful in the classroom and before all the petals naturally fell of this set of colorful flowers, I decided to turn the petals into an array of flower petal glitter… My bouquet...
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A very sweet collage all framed up for father's day....
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Exploring the beautiful colors and shape of a square on our sticky window!
View ArticleButtons, buttons, and more buttons
Reading "Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons" then we were off to have a little fun of our own with bright and colorful buttons!
View ArticleTorn paper strip sticky collage
Before sharing this simple torn paper strip sticky collage with the children, I told them that we needed to work on building stronger hands and fingers and one of the best ways to do that, is by...
View ArticleK is for kaleidoscope designs
Exploring design, shapes, and colors as we explore the book "I See a Song" and the making of our own kaleidoscope designs in preschool!
View ArticlePainted paper collages and storytelling inspired by Eric Carle
Our children retold the story and created painted picture collages in the style of Eric Carle.
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