Super Duper Cute ABC Letters

Flower Name Wreaths

We let the kids glue the flowers onto paper to make wreaths, then they wrote each letter in their name onto each flower... They turned out super cute.

Spring has Sprung.... DONE!

Ice Cream

Need;
1.  Paper Plate
2.  Puff Balls
3.  Glue
4.  Food Coloring or Liquid Water Color
5. Men's Shaving Cream, preferably non scented

Mix the glue, shaving cream, and coloring together.  Scoop it onto the plate...

Finger Painting. Yikes.

Step 1: put paint on the tables.

Step 2: Finger paint it up

Step 3: Lay the paper on top of the table

Step 4: Peel the paper from the table, while saying TA-DA!  

Summer Trees

To show the different seasons we have the kids paint trees.  Paint your forearm brown, for the trunk, paint your hand green, for the top of the tree, then paint your finger tips red, for the apples... they loved it!  

Sunshine all around me...

We are learning about day and night.  So we made suns.  This was really fun, we got to talk to the kids about what happens during the day while they were painting.  And we got to use messy messy glitter, I love glitter... 

Spring has Sprung!

We had the kids decorate the sun and cloud with items that were yellow/orange and blue.  They used paint, stickers, shapes, flowers, feathers, string, beads, stamps, basically anything we could find!  This has been over a week long project and it is still in the process of being completed.  We still have to put up the top of the tree and the butterflies.  The kids used watercolor paints and painted the tulips, and used pastels to color their beautiful kites.  This wall makes me happy when I see it!  A lot of hard work from the kids went into this wall....

Let's Go Fly a Kite...

My kites, I think this is my favorite!  I love the butterflies and bows... I made two of each butterfly and stapled them in the middle, so it has a 3D effect.  Pretty exciting!  Also, I ran out of border on the upper left side so I had to improvise...

Day and Night...

Here is my day and night bulletin board.  We have yet to put the kids artwork up yet.  I made the silver stars by using a di-cut and glueing foil to white paper and using a star shape to cut them out... 

My day board looks a little beat up because the elementary kids walk by it everyday and break it, and my heart... 

Junlge Mania

I made a palm tree and vine to go in our circle time area...

Butterflies...

We made coffee filter butterflies with our class.
All you need is coffee filter, markers, squirt bottle, water, pipe cleaners.
We had the kids color onto the coffee filter, then scrunch the filter into a ball, spray it with water, open it up, cinch it in the middle with the pipe cleaner and let them dry...

We had a ton of baby food jars, so we decided to make it into a super cute craft for the kids to take home, (we planned it so they will take them home for Mother's day, but we are telling them that is what it is for, because we cannot celebrate any holidays)...
We had to use hot glue to get the butterflies to stick to the popcicle sticks and jars

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Cute zoo

Another classroom did this project before taking the kids on a field trip to the zoo.  I loved this idea.

Planter Boxes

Planter boxes I made, I wanted to put the kids faces in the flower, but I never got around to it... I made 4 planter boxes.

Jungle Vines

I hung vines from the windows while we did our jungle theme, and they stayed up through our seasons/weather unit too.  I scrunched up brown construction paper, and stapled it up, then I took colored cellophane and made turned it into flowers.  When we changed into seasons and weather I added di-cut ladybugs to the vines.

Raindrops on Roses....

The kids cut out their own raindrops, and I attached different color umbrellas to each rain drop.  It is great to hear the kids recognizing all the colors!  (the picture looks kind of crazy, we were in the process of de-cluttering everything)

Camping in Dramatic Play

WE HAVE A TENT!  And the kids go crazy over it.  I brought in a mini cooler, camping chair and made a paper fire, and they love love love it!  We decided that since we are learning about night and day that we would have a night time camp out.  So we hung stars up from the ceiling and I made a night time scene on the back of one of the blocks shelves, complete with fireflies.

My little glow bug.

Summer themes.

We managed to make a huge 3D waterfall in the summer camp jungle room, but sadly I have no pictures of that...  But I do have my treasure chest for the pirate wall, a photo wall, and my beach scene.  The beach scene was the hardest, because I decided to cut all the pieces out of construction paper, so the only coloring that was done was every little piece was outlined with a black sharpie.  This wall took forever...
I am slightly upset because the picture is super blurry.  But you get the idea.

My photo wall was done with a black background and super bright colored paper for the borders, then I used I made a page protector to fit each picture, so you could change out the pictures easily.  I used drink umbrellas, (cut off the stick and put them up...).  It had a tiki vibe.

And here is my treasure chest, with one star left over from my night wall.... I used lots of jewels, foil, shiny wrapping paper, and glitter... it was fun to make.  We had the kids add to it during the summer, but I do not have pictures... 

This is all from 2009.

Pumpkins and Creepy Trees

I made the tree by cutting out envelope shapes in brown construction paper.  I needed a lot... Then I made the owls.  We also made pumpkins with the kids faces in them and put them into the "planter boxes" (we cut a cardboard box and painted them dark brown).

The Lorax

So I am horrible at drawing unless I have a pictures I can copy something from.  The teacher that worked across the hall from me went on vacation and took a Monday off of work.  It just so happened that she had an empty wall and right be for she left she mentioned her favorite children's story was The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.  So I decided in the super short amount of time I had to whip something up... I did this in about 2 hours, the coloring took the longest!  And I laminated it, which I ended up not liking the way it looked after I had laminated the little guy... but oh well the teacher and the kids all enjoyed it.

if you look on the left side you can see the green hand...