glue

This is one of my favorite glue bottles that I highly recommend for young children… The only problem is that after some use, the glue lid gets impossibly stuck to the bottle… I spent a long time cleaning the tops of these bottles and even ended up with some pretty sore fingers trying to pry [...]

Our favorite ways to glue in preschool

February 4, 2011

Gluing with Cotton Swabs Cotton swabs make a quick and easy way of adding glue to art activities – when you are done, just throw the swabs away. The drawback is that if you use one swab too long, it gets kinds of stringy so you need to have plenty of fresh swabs around to [...]

Q is for queen in kindergarten and big bottles of glue

September 26, 2010

I always enjoy visiting the kindergarten classes and seeing how much they can do. This week the children were working on the letter Q and part of their “work” was making their very own queens. Before getting started on this type of activity, the teacher has already shared with the children what will be included [...]

Sweet glue for creative art in preschool

March 13, 2010

Add some food coloring to corn syrup and you have a very sweet glue mixture! I took these photos at a local school I visited and noticed the blue bottle of corn syrup (made by adding food coloring). The children painted a little fish bowl cut out with the blue corn syrup. Then they added [...]

The Glue Table

December 9, 2009

Today, the post you will read is about glue but as you read it, there is much more meaning than just the use of glue in the classroom. However, I don’t want to tell you what to get out of this post when it comes to teaching in the early childhood classroom, I want you [...]