Tag: preschool
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Leaf Making Factory
Watercolors and diffuse paper are always a hit. Sometimes we use pipettes and liquid watercolors, other times we do brushes and regular cake watercolors… but it is always fun for the kids. They love seeing how the ‘thirsty paper’ drinks up the paint. They love watching it spread by itself. They love to experiment with…
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Colored Glue Fall-inspired Tiles
Ever since we did our colored glue project, kids have been asking to do it again. And ever since one parent dropped off a huge stack of white tiles at our school, I was trying to figure out what to do with them. Today we decided to combine these two – and were pleasantly surprised…
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Salt Dough Mandalas
We have been collecting chestnuts, acorns, pumpkin seeds and berries for a while. We love fall and kids (and I) love bringing a lot of signs on fall inside a classroom. We have a big ‘fall treasures’ box by the door that we have been adding to… and it was time to start using these…
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Glue Guns for All!
We love glue guns in our preschool. And we especially love the new super cold ones we got last week. Before that we had a low-temp ones but they could still burn your finger so I helped the kids with their creations (especially the 3s) and I took only two kids at a time. We…
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Sensory Walk
I went to the Zero Landfill Seattle event couple of weeks ago and scored all these amazing treasures! It is a priceless (and yes, free) event where designers give away all of their old samples to artists, craftsman and teachers. I brought two wagons and filled them all! First thing we did was a sensory…
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Slime Exploration
Who would not like slime? It’s fun to make it, color it and then squeeze it, cut it, pour it, paint with it, measure it, pull it, etc. The limit is only your imagination – meaning in our classroom the uses are limitless. This year we decided to follow three different recipes. Slime 1 cup…
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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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