With this beautiful change of weather and learning about seasons, collecting sticks and leaves 🍃 outdoors ☀️ was an absolute pleasure. I wasn’t quite sure how this would turn out, but H even asked to create more than one leaf creature, selecting a butterfly 🦋 from the example. He worked so hard to come up with his creation, including asking for markers and additional construction paper. There may have been examples pictured…
I found this idea via @jugandoconmariposas and adapted it a little, creating 2 file folder games that could be easily stored away for future use. I drew geometric shapes and a letter H using the same colors as the jumbo craft sticks, so that the children would get to match them up in order to complete the shape. Smaller crafts sticks would have likely allowed for more shapes per page…
While learning about clouds, we read It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw and then did this “cloudy art” activity from the curriculum. Mixing white paint with water was a FANTASTIC combination so that the kids could suck it up with a pipette and drop it onto the thick blue paper to make a beautiful contrast. ☁️ We also had one cup filled with just white paint and another…