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Halloween 

Zombie Fingers Recipe

What You Need:

String cheese

Bell Pepper

Cream cheese

Small spoon

Small knife

What You Do:

1.    Cut the string cheese in half to make the base of the amputated finger.

2.    Help your child by carving out a small nail bed on the end of one side of the cheese. The nail bed should be the same size as on an adult fingernail. To make it appear more realistic, round the edges of the finger by gently whittling any straight edges.

3.    Create a knuckle by cutting three lines midway up the “finger.”

4.    Place a tiny dot of cream cheese on the bed of the nail.

5.    Cut up the bell pepper into tiny, rounded squares and fit them into the nail beds for a colorful fingernail, and you’re ready to munch!

  Halloween Bat Decoration

What You Need:

Black construction paper

Clothespins

Google eyes

White crayon

Glue

Scissors

What You Do:

1.    Help your kindergartener cut a piece of black paper slightly bigger than the clothespin. Let him glue it to the front of the clothespin. Set aside to dry.

2.    Use a white crayon to draw a set of bat wings about six inches across on black paper. Let your little one cut out the wings. Remind him to keep both of his “thumbs up” while cutting. His hand holding the scissors should have his thumb up, as well as his “helping hand” holding the paper. Help your child learn to hold his scissors correctly from the beginning. Scissor skills are an important component of kindergarten readiness.

3.    Have your kindergartener glue the bat wings to the front of the clothespin, on top of the piece of paper you already attached to the clothespin. Place the wings low enough on the clothespin so about a ½ inch of the covered clothespin is visible at the top. This will be the bat’s head.

4.    Let your child glue google eyes to the bat’s head. If you do not have google eyes available, your child could draw eyes using the white crayon.

5.    Your finished bats are ready to hang around the house. Use the clothespin to attach them to any thin surface, or consider gluing a magnet to the back of the clothespin to make a refrigerator magnet.

Christmas 

 

Handprint Santa 

 

What You Need:

Red construction paper

Green construction paper

Black construction paper

Pink construction paper

Paper plate

White paint

Wiggle eyes

Newspaper

Scissors

Glue stick

Pencil

Marker

What You Do:

1.    Have your child fold the green construction paper in half and set aside.

2.    Help her use a pencil to draw a triangular hat shape on the red construction paper before cutting it out with scissors.

3.    Let her draw a circle on the red paper. This will be Santa's bright red nose! Have her cut this out as well.

4.    Time to make Santa's blushing cheeks. Have your child draw two circles on the pink construction paper and cut them out with scissors.

5.    To create Santa's mouth, let her draw and cut out one more small circle from the black paper.

6.    Carefully help your child pour a thin layer of white paint onto the paper plate.

7.    Have her dip her hand flat in the white paint so that the paint covers the entire surface of her palm and fingers.

8.    Help practice stamping her painted hand on newspaper before she moves on to the actual card. The trick is to press her hand solidly on the paper without fidgeting and smearing the paint.

9.    Once she's confident with her technique, have her stamp her freshly painted hand on the front of the folded green construction paper. Make sure the fingers are showing -- this will be Santa's beard.

10.  At the top of the palm, have your child glue on Santa's paper hat, mouth, cheeks and nose.

11.  Let her glue on the wiggle eyes to complete Santa's face.

12.  To add additional hat details, help her fingerprint the base and top of the hat with white paint dots.

13.  Have your child wash her hands before using a marker to write a little message inside the card.

         Christmas Handprint Craft

What You Need:

Newspaper

Poster board

Paint in assorted colors

Paper plates

Pencil

Ruler

Construction paper in assorted colors

Scissors

White glue

What You Do:

1.    Begin by covering your workspace with newspaper, for easy clean-up.

2.    Help your child draw a large triangle with pencil and ruler on a light-colored poster board. Rotate board so that the point is facing down. It's easier to paint the Christmas tree upside down.

3.    Help him pour a big puddle of green paint on a paper plate. You can also fill a few other plates with different festive colors, like red and yellow.

4.    Have him dip his hand in green paint and carefully press it onto the poster board at the tip of the triangle, with his fingers pointing up.

5.    He will be making 5 rows of handprints. The first row will have one handprint, the second two, the third three, and so on. Can he count how many handprints will be on the tree, total? This is a great time to practice counting!

6.    After creating every row on the Christmas tree, wash your hands. Now let him decorate the tree by dipping his fingertips in the other colors and dotting them throughout the branches. He can also add other embellishments to the tree, like a rectangle for the trunk and yellow star at the top.

7.    Let the tree dry completely. Then cut it out and glue on red poster board.

Handprint Reindeer (Alicia Garcia)

What You Need:

Light brown construction paper

Dark brown construction paper

Red pom pom

Pencil

Scissors

Glue

Wiggle eyes

Sock

Tape

What You Do:

Help your child trace her foot on a piece of dark brown construction paper.

Let her use scissors to carefully cut out the foot. This shape will be her reindeer's face.

Next, have her fold a sheet of light brown construction paper in half.

Help her trace on of her hands on the light brown construction paper.

With the paper still folded, have her cut out her traced hand from the paper. She should now have two hand shapes.

Let her tape the cut-out hands behind the reindeer head to create antlers.

Have her glue two wiggle eyes in place to give the reindeer goofy personality.The last touch is the "Rudolph red" nose! Help your child glue the red pom pom to the center of the reindeer's face.

Seasons

          Learn the Four Seasons

 

Get your kindergartener started on Earth science with a lesson on...the seasons! Challenge her season savvy with this worksheet that asks her to write the name of each season under the correct picture. At the end, she'll write a sentence about her favorite season for extra sentence building and handwriting practice.

Autumn has arrived (Miriam)

Materials: 

Papel, markers, crayons, colored pencis, scissors and glue stick

Description:

 Give to the children a paper with a draw of a leaf for them to decorate after a mural for Autumn.  Another way is that they draw the leaf and also they color it.

Other possibility is to make this mural with flowers when spring arrives, with snowmen when winter comes…

    








   Writing Postcards: How's the Weather?

Your child can get practice identifying seasons (and also writing postcards!) with this seasonal variety. Encourage your student to think about what each season looks, feels, and smells like, then write it down on the back of each card.



Father's Day

        Funny Father's Day Card

 

What You Need:

Video camera or digital recording device

Blank DVD or CD

Jewel case

Construction paper

Pen and markers

What You Do:

1.    Before you begin the project, write a short list of “interview” questions or topics to discuss with your child. Example questions include:

o    What are your favorite activities to do with Dad?

o    What is your favorite thing about Dad?

o    What does Dad do to make you laugh?

o    What makes Dad so special?

o    What makes Dad a good father?

o    What special message do you want to tell Dad on Father's Day?

2.    Explain the idea of a video or audio card to him. Show him the list of questions and give him time to think about his answers if necessary.

3.    When he is ready, sit down with him and record his answers to the questions. Five minutes is an ideal length, but the recording can be as long or short as he wants to make it.

4.    Transfer the recording to a blank CD or DVD.

5.    Help him cut a sheet of construction paper to fit inside the jewel case. Ask him to write a short Father's Day message on the paper and decorate it as he wishes. He can also use a permanent marker to label the CD.

6.    Fit the paper inside the jewel case and attach it as you would a greeting card to Dad's Father's Day gift.

BOOKMARKS (Alicia Garcia)

Pictures of kids hanging (like off the monkey bars) or just standing with their hands over their heads, scissors, ribbon, laminator or contact paper, hole punchCut away the entire background of the pictures leaving only the cutout of the child.

Run through the laminator or cover with contact paper.  Cut off extra plastic.  Punch a hole between the hands on the pictures and add a ribbon.   A perfect gift for the avid reader in your life!

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5. Food art

Tired of drawing as usual? Get creative and turn nature's bounty into a work of art.
Cut up carrots, tomatoes, celery, or other fruits and vegetables, and help your child arrange the food into pictures on a large plate. The two of you can create a clown, train, or a beautiful piece of abstract art. You can use olives for eyes, round crackers for wheels, slices of cheese as windows — the possibilities are endless.
Enjoy your meal!!!!!!!!!!


http://www.babycenter.com/0_10-simple-fun-activities-for-parents-and-preschoolers-to-do_64431.bc

Turtle "Tambourine" - take a pair of paper plates, handful of beans, lentils, rice or macaroni, stapler, green construction paper, markers and scissors.

Cut turtle leg shapes and a head shape  from green construction paper. Allow child to decorate bottom of both paper plates; the will be the shell of the turtle. Place paper plates together, decorated sides out, insides together to form "tambourine". Staple together inserting legs as appropriate. Leave the neck area unstapled. Place handful of beans/lentils/rice/macaroni in to turtle body and staple the rest of the paper plates together, inserting neck and head where appropriate.  
Let's play some animal music!!!!!

 

http://www.dpeasley.com/Peasleburg_Academy/Preschool/pa_craft_ideas.htm

Soraya

FANNY SUN

What You Need: Plastic plate, hand painting, thread and glue tag.

What You Do:

First, they will take his plate of plastic. Later with hand painting they will decorate the plate freely. They will use different colors. Beside, they will decorate with sponges or their hands

When they finish, they will put their sun in a window. It's important use glue tag and thread.

The children will learn a basic solar sistem.

Activity for 1-2 year old.

 

 

 

Miriam

 

2.- Magics Butterflies

 

Materials: 

Toilet paper tubes, paper, finger paints, scissors and glue 

Description:

You give them a roll of paper and the paint as they want, then they give color butterfly wings and cut it . 

Once all colored wings, antennas and body butterfly sticks . Finally  draw the face and the eyes of the butterfly 

Other possibilities is to other animals with toilet paper tubes for example a centipede , a snake or a worm.

                                                                    

 

 

Alicia Reyes

 

 

Egg Maracas

 

Materials that you need:

-Plastic eggs

-Rice 

-Plastic spoons

-Colored tape

 

How we did it:

First the kids open the eggs of plastic to insert a handful of grains of rice and to close them again. It takes 2 teaspoons to place them to the sides of the egg of plastic.

Next, they placed the egg between two plastic spoons. Then they taped around the spoons to secure the egg.  

 

 It continues lining the piece with adhesive tape and it joins the handles of the spoons for major comfort.

 

 It decorates to your taste with colored tape.

And and starts enjoying his sounds!!!!

 

http://www.kiwicrate.com/projects/Easter-Egg-Maracas/781 

 Colored Pasta Jewellery

Material that you need: 

- Uncooked hollow pasta (eg. macaroni)

-Ziplock bags

-Food colouring

-Hand sanitiser

-Paper towe

How we did it:

The first place your uncooked pasta into a ziploc bag.  Put a few squirts of hand sanitiser into the bag.

Re-open the bag and pour a few drops of food colouring into the ziploc bag. 

Zip up the bag and shake until the food colouring has mixed evenly through the pasta. The pasta is extracted and places in towels in order that it dries off. The following step is to be putting the pasta in the thread and when it has been ended to close the necklace with zeal. Finally you have a wonderful necklace of macaroni.

 

Lydia

 

Alphabet Book

Materials

• Small notebook, paper or cardboard paper
• Crayons or markers
• Old magazines
• Scissors
• Glue
• Photos of friends and family 

Description

1. Help the child print a letter of the alphabet on each page of a small notebook, paper or cardboard paper.
2. The child can draw a picture of something that begins with that letter, cut pictures from old magazines and glue them onto each page, or use photographs of friends and family members.

Egg Carton Goggles

Materials

• Cardboard egg carton
• Crayons, markers, paint, stickers...
• Pen
• Scissors
• Ribbon or string

Description

1. Cut two wells from the end of the cardboard egg carton.
2. Trim any excess cardboard from the sides.
3. Make a little hole on the sides with the pen for the ribbon.
4. Cut using the scissors two circles to do the holes for the eyes.
5. Ask the child to decorate his mask or goggles using crayons, markers, paint, stickers...

 

Noelia

 

Cute Ghosts

What You Need:

Cardboar poster 

Cotton 

Glue stick 

Scissors 

Pencil.

What You Do: 

Draw a ghost on the cardboar poster.

 After let pickng cotton and pasting the ghost 

Then will pick up two eyes and a mouth and above the cotton stick together.

 

 

Alicia Garcia

 

Recycling activity: caterpillar roll toilet paper.Materials: 
toilet paper tube, hand paint, eyes stickers and cardboards of colours.
Description:

If you want to do something with the kids about animals colours and nature you can use this idea. You can also work on recycling, because you use toilet paper tube, which are made of cardboard. It's a funny way  to recycle and learn. First you ask your kids that bring to class some toilet paper tube, them they decorate however they want with diferent colours of hand paint and put the eyes stickers on the first tube or where they want. Finally they will paste the tubes on cardboard with leaf form. AND YOU GET A BEAUTIFUL CATERPILLAR!

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Carla

Jellyfish

Materials:

A plastic plate , ribbons of different colors and shapes, glue and cardboard.

Description:

With ribbons of different colors and various types the kids can create the tentacles of jellyfish.

Children below should stick labels onto plastic plate .

Finally, can make the eyes of  jellyfish  with cardboard.

Activity of the jellyfish

Birds

Materials:

Acrylic paint, brush, white cardboard, moving eyes , orange marker and glue.

Description:

The children will paint his hand with acrylic paint of the color of their choice. Then, they will shall lay hands on the white cardboard to make their mark. 

When the paint has dried, they can draw with marker orange the legs and beak of the bird. 

Finally, they should glue the moving eyes.