Month: January 2019
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Sewing Sprinkles on Cookies (bakery, 3)
I have been looking for another chance to bring sewing into the classroom, and when the kids asked to make cookies, I thought – YES! I cut the little plastic mesh into circles to make the cookies for them and then spent two hours threading the needles and making knots. I worked with 4-5 […]
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Clay Donuts (bakery project, 2)
Our bakery project is in full swing now. Every day kids add more and more ideas and creations to their bakery. Now they realized we need donuts. So we decided to bake some. We had some vanilla clay I made for the kids to play with… and we figured, if we make donuts out of […]
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Baking Sponge Cakes (bakery project, 1)
I have been observing the kids closely to see what theme, or an idea would inspire all of them. It was difficult. I would always get one or two interested in something but the other kids would wonder off after couple of minutes, not engaging anymore. Then I had a revelation – baking! That was […]
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Snowy Days at Preschool
Yet another snowy day at school. It is grey and rainy outside but it is January… and it January we love exploring snow. Kids usually get to the mountains over the weekend – skiing, sledding, tubing or just building a snowman. They always come back and tell us all about their adventurous and are eager […]
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Acrylic Paint Pour
Mesmerizing art in a cup. This is such fun (and highly addictive) activity! We tried it once and we knew we were hooked. It’s so easy. First, you need to mix your paint. You need a cup and a Popsicle stick to stir it (for each color). Then take: acrylic paint little bit of water […]
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Slime Paint
It seems that there are more and more kids that would benefit from some form of sensory integration therapy. I have a lot of kids this year that are bothered by the sound of the fan in the bathroom, taste of anything unknown, touching anything messy or sticky, physical touch of their classmates… or they […]
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Silly Susie
Last week I went to Value Village and they had a pile of Styrofoam heads by the registers. It was like something from Dr. Who. I could not decide if I like them or they freak me out a little bit, but I could no stop myself. I knew the kids would have a blast […]
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Two-feet Tall Wooden Snowman
We don’t work with wood as much as I would like (aside from our glue gun days). So when I saw somewhere a snowman out of plank of wood, I knew I want to try it. I got really lucky – I went to Home Depot and found the 2x4s in the clearance section – […]
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Salt Snow Painting
Watercolors and salt – two of our favorite materials. We have done salt on watercolor paintings to see how the crystals soak up the pigment and water, we drizzled salt on glue and then touched it up with watercolors to see how they spread on the paper… but this was the first time we made […]
Artree: online preschool 