Wordless Wednesday: halloween crafts

St. Patrick's Day art

I love doing things with hand prints. There are so many things you can do with them and it's really cute when their hands are so tiny! Well for this project I made a clover with thier hands. Actually my co worker did but I cut them out :)

Another one I did was a pot of gold. I started out with a bowl shape on black paper and glued it to another piece of paper. After that I gathered glue, a dixie cup and gold glitter. Using the bottem of the cup,  dip it in glue and make circles on the paper. Then take gold glitter and spread it everywhere!

The next one involved a coffee filter, and I cut it in the shape of a clover and placed it on a tray. I then found some blue and yellow water color. The kids then got to put the two colors on the filter how ever they wanted too and has the colors mixed it turned green! It was fun seeing all the different unique clovers they made.

Wordless Wednesday: Abstract art!

Wordless Wednesday: Christmas crafts

Note: I meant to post this weeks ago and in fact thought I had but it never got published. These are numerous crafts I did with the kids in my classroom

These were made with their shoe print and hands :)

Christmas cheer

I don't know if anybody knew this but I love Christmas! To start the celebration both me and Mr co worker did a Christmas tree craft with the kids.

Lots more pictures soon to come!

Arts and Crafts: Modified

Ever since I moved to the wobbler room I've had to modify my art projects to make them simpler for 1 year olds to do. It's been a hard adjustment, but I've discovered that the best way to do this is just give them a piece of paper and have them color, paint, and glitter it all they want! They may not look exactly how you wanted them too, but the kids love it and they look great hanging up in my classroom!

We are focusing on Fall and harvest currently has we are getting ready for Thanksgiving

My corn that turned out to be bananas...

This next project is actually a project my co worker did with the kids, but it was just too cute not to share! Bonus points if you can guess what it is. Again, doesn't normally look how you expected it. :)

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It's a pumpkin pie! All it took was a paper plate, some orange plate, pumpkin spice and a cotton ball for the whip cream. This particularly project makes the room smell so good. Just have to remember to take them down after a week though, eventually the pumpkin spice starts smelling not so good

The messier, the better

I love doing messy things in the classroom with the kids. Particular painting. We go through a lot of paint. Enough that we have to fill the paint bottles almost on a weekly basis. Well today I wanted to change it up a bit. I added some sand to change the consistency and texture to paint starfish.

I've never done this before and hope that it turns out ok. Kind of fun to do something different

Car tracks

In case you haven't noticed I love doing arts and crafts with the kids in my class. This project was similar to the dinosaur tracks, only we used cars!

The craft is petty self explanatory. Either way the kids had fun. It's a way for them to explore with the different cars and seeing the different tracks it makes!

Shaving cream art

Had a little fun with shaving cream today. A simple and easy project to make marblized designs on a piece of paper without the fuss of paint or a marble.

Items you need for this are simple:

• Trays
• Shaving cream
• Food coloring
• Paper
• Craft stick

Start with putting some shaving cream in a tray. Then drop a few drops of food coloring on top of it. DO NOT MIX IT. If you mix it, you wont get the same effect

Take a piece of paper and place it on the shaving cream. Pushing slightly

Lift the paper off

Scrap off the extra shaving cream

 

 

 

And you get a cool marble effect!

Of course the kids discovered an alternative way to do this project. The sticks we used for scraping could be used for a "painting" the shaving cream on. Not the same effect but it still works.

I call this project a complete success! The first time I tried this it didn't work the way I wanted to. Very happy with the overall outcome.