Jumat, 12 Oktober 2012

BOO! A Quick and Easy Halloween Craft

Earlier this week, we made a quick craft to decorate the room for Halloween!  I just love Halloween and so do my kiddos!  I saw this idea on Pinterest, but I wanted my kids to practice drawing and cutting so we did not use any patterns.  Here is the finished product:

A Quick and Easy Halloween Craft


All you need is a white paper plate, rectangles of black construction paper for eyes and mouth, rectangles of white for arms, and white crepe paper.  I cut mine into foot long strips, but next time I'd do 1.5 feet so they are a little longer.  Also, I think a few more strips would look good. Live and learn, right? 

We'll also be making pumpkin life cycles, bats, and spider hats!  Almost entirely Pinterest inspired, just how I like it!  How did I teach before Pinterest?!?!  Stay tuned for more Halloween craft fun!

Sabtu, 08 September 2012

The Wheels on the Bus craftivity

I must apologize for my absence in the blogging world!  I have been so busy with getting into the kindergarten routine!  I have missed reading all of your awesome posts.

This week, my little sweeties and I read The Wheels on the Bus.  They LOVED it!  We sang it, we added motions, we practiced retelling the story.  I wanted to add a little practice with our fine motor skills, so I created this cute little bus craftivity.


This bus was the finished product from one of my cuties.  It was very simple to make.  I created a bus template and copied it onto yellow paper.  The kids cut it out.  I cut out wheels (circles are hard for them to cut!), and they cut out my window templates.  They also added characters from the book into the windows.  I let them try out colored pencils and they were so excited for a break from the jumbo crayons!  I heard over and over how fun this activity was, and they couldn't believe it was our reading time!  I reminded them that we were doing a response to our story from the week.  If you wanted to try this craft, you might want to add pipe cleaner wipers.  I considered it, but ultimately just ran out of prep time.  If you can use this activity, email or leave a comment and I'd be happy to scan and email the templates I used!

Have a great weekend, and thanks for stopping by!