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.