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International Fairy Day Celebration
Every year, we join preschools all over the world to celebrate the International Fairy Day Tea Party Celebration on September 21st. It is a wonderful celebration of play and imagination. The idea behind it is: Celebrated on a day where all the children around the world share the fact that we have 12 hours of daylight…
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Dress for Mess
At our school kids get messy. One of the first things we say to new parents is: dress for mess, aprons are optional, we play in mud and we get dirty. Every day. A lot. Every year we have kids that love getting muddy, wet and dirty and kids that don’t. Funny thing is though,…
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Flying our Kites
We have two days now between the week and a who-knows-how-long of rain. I don’t mind rain. I actually like it and I know the kids love it! But there are some things that are more fun without drizzling: like flying a kite. It’s amazing how couple of plastic bags, sharpies, string, tagging tape and…
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Suncatchers from DVD cases
I knew I wanted to do a project with these as soon as I saw them but I wasn’t really sure what to do. I didn’t want to make anything too crafty. I wanted to make something abstract with the kids. Something they would love making their own. In the end I decided to leave…
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Our Skittle Experiment
The scientific method is defined as a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data is gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from this data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested. And that is what we did yesterday in our Skittles Experiment. We gathered our candy, looked at it, described it and saw how the color melts.…
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Too Much Glue
Kids love glue. I love it too. So I don’t insist they only use a little bit in their work. I explain the benefits of little vs. ton of glue… but let them decide and try it out. After all, glue is fun. It is a really great sensory activity, it is affordable and using too…
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The Marble Project
It hasn’t been a week since the school started. Actually, it only was a couple of days and some kids only saw each other once or twice. Yet, they are working together amazingly well. Yesterday they decided to play with marbles. The marble run was their favorite toy these past few days and they were…
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Journaling with Preschoolers
We have decorated our journals with a Henri Matisse inspired collage and now is the time to start filling them in. When my son started going to preschool (a long time ago), his teacher did this amazing thing. Every month she would ask the kids to draw their self-portrait and sign their name. It was…
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Matisse Self Portraits
Henri Matisse is always a hit with the kids. They like the idea of painting with scissors and they absolutely love guessing what animal is hiding in his painting (though they rarely think it is a snail). We are starting our journaling next week. I got the primary journals for the kids all ready…
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Our Narrative Blanket, part 1
I have always admired Faith Ringgold and her narrative blankets. She does such a wonderful job capturing the emotion, combining different textures, colors and moods. I have always wanted to make an art inspired by her with my students. Tar Beach (Part I from the Woman on a Bridge series), 1988 (Gauggenheim Museum) Being a preschool…
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