Tag: emilia reggio
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Shaving Cream Cupcakes (bakery project 8)
Today we made cupcakes. Cupcakes with shaving cream. We love combining sensory exploration with art. These two things go together so well and at this time and age when kids are afraid to get their hands dirty, it is something we try to do as much as we can. We started with shaving cream and…
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Spices, Pancakes, Mud and Glue (bakery project, 7)
Our bakery project is going really well. We have bee doing so many little things, I just wanted to share some of them. We have been crushing spices – cinnamon, cardamon, cloves and more. It made our preschool smell so nice! We baked muffins, waffles and pancakes. Pancakes were the biggest hit. We measured and…
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Head in the Oven (baking project, 6)
Our bakery needed a new oven. We decided our small wooden oven does not cut it for 12 kids. So when I brought home this huge, sturdy box from Costco – I knew it will make a lot of kids very happy. And it did. First day, I just brought the box in the classroom…
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Pool Noodle Donuts (bakery project, 4)
Did you know an average pool noodle yields 77 donuts? We have been adding stuff to our bakery over a week now. And even though we have already made donuts, when I realized a pool noodle can be cut into donuts as well, I knew I had to try it with the kids. It is…
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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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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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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…
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Magnatiles and Candles
We wanted to make a simple art project today – decorate toilet paper rolls, then glue a cup inside and place a real (electric) tea candle inside – making a decorative candle for the holidays. We painted the rolls but they took forever to dry and kids really wanted to explore the lights themselves. So…
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Christmas Light Exploration
Christmas lights are fascinating for the kids to explore and engage with. We added some lights to our wall and kept half of the preschool in the dark. Kids loved it. Then we showed the the awesome glasses that change every light into a snowman, tree, gift… and they did not want to take them…
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Salt Dough Cookies
I grew up in the Czech Republic and, especially around the holidays, I tend to go back to projects that I did when I was little, the ones I loved and cherished. There is a big part of me that wants to share them with the kids I teach. And salt dough ornaments are one…
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