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Making a baby footprint painting

June 10, 2011

I finally had a chance to make a little footprint painting with my grandson! Let me say right out of gate that this was no easy task to do all by myself… I wanted to try and make a footprint painting while Kai was still just a few weeks old so I could have it [...]

Teach Preschool in the news: exploring plants and nature

May 17, 2011

My little friend, Tristan was kind enough to join me on Indiana Fox 59 Morning News this week to explore a few ideas we can do with plants…. For this segment, I brought the last of my flowers saved from Mother’s Day and a few plants I had set aside… Tristan showed how to take [...]

Still life flower drawings in kindergarten

May 11, 2011

This is the final activity we did with our flower bouquets. You can see the other posts here > painting with flowers, a flower canvas, and cutting flower stems. I have also seen many different folks share about still life drawings which made me really want to give this a try with the kids… To get this [...]

Cutting flower stems in preschool

May 11, 2011

Cutting flower stems in preschool Perhaps I should have titled this post “Attempting to cut flower stems in preschool” because child scissors don’t make much of a dent in the stems. However, one of our students figured out how to make this work…. These are left-over stems from our flower bouquets which I posted about [...]

Painting with a bouquet of flowers in preschool

May 10, 2011

Did you save the flower bouquet for preschool? I have shared how the kindergarten class made a flower canvas from a flower bouquet that was just about ready to be thrown out. Here are some additional activities to use up those flowers from the flower bouquet as well… While at one table, the children were making [...]

Save the bouquet of flowers for preschool

May 10, 2011

Did you get a bouquet of flowers recently? Are they just about ready to throw out? Well before they get too far gone and you decide to throw them out – turn the flowers into a bit of preschool fun! I went around and gathered some flower bouquets that were just about done in and [...]

Creating a flower collage in preschool

April 25, 2011

Collages are a simple way for children to extend their understanding of different concepts that they are exploring or showing an interest in… Collage materials can include any kind of materials you can possibly think of. These children are making what I would consider one of the most basic types of collages using pictures and [...]

Exploring seeds in preschool

April 14, 2011

This activity box is filled with a variety of dry beans and pasta for a little spring garden sensory play…. If you are wondering why there is pasta mixed into the mix – I can’t really say except that it provides a little more color and texture… As with any sensory activity like this, we [...]

Is this flower taller or shorter than a preschooler?

April 12, 2011

I happen to stop by this classroom and the teacher had a very tall paper flower sitting out on a table… The children were very excited about this flower so to build on their enthusiasm, we decided to see who (or which) was taller – the flower or the child… All the children hurried up [...]

Endless fun with flowers in preschool

March 29, 2011

The preschool children loved playing with the flowers and play dough from one of our spring activity boxes!

Spring up your preschool classroom with pussy willows!

March 22, 2011

The children made pussy willows in preschool today! They started out by exploring a real pussy willow. We had to be careful because if we handled the branch too much the little buds (catkins) would fall of the branch very easily. So instead we took one of the catkins off and let the children feel [...]

We made tissue paper flowers in preschool

August 21, 2010

Tissue paper is such a wonderful product to work with in preschool. The bright colors that are available lend to wonderful opportunities for exploring art. Each child was given a paper flower shape as their canvas… The children painted the stem and leaves of the flower with green paint. Controlling the flow of paint is [...]

Water Bottle Printing with Preschoolers

June 24, 2010

This idea originally came from Frugal Family Fun Blog. I have seen this idea on many other blogs as well but this is where I saw the idea first. I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it. Theme: Flowers The theme for this particular week is Flowers. The children are creating [...]

Wonderful collection of flower activities for your preschoolers

April 12, 2010

A fantastic collection of flower ideas for your preschool classroom! Click on each picture to see the blog post!

Simple flowers, caterpillars, and rainbows in preschool

March 14, 2010

I keep this product in my kitchen cabinet all the time and love it because of its special kind of adhesive ability to wrap up foods with an easy seal. I buy Glad Press’n Seal wrap from the local grocery store or Walmart. Pull out a length of the sealing wrap and set it out [...]

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