Showing posts with label Springtime Activities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Springtime Activities. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2007

Some Fun Spring Crafts For Kids

Decorate your favorite photo with this springtime frame. Feel free to get creative, and encourage your kids to get creative as well. Once the activity is complete, find somewhere to hang it up, so that each child can be seen. This will provide them with a sense of accomplishment, as well as let them see each other's work. Don't be afraid to embellish your frame with bees, butterflies, ladybugs, or whatever you can find.

Supplies needed (substitutes may be used):
  • Frame pattern
  • Butterfly patterns
  • Bee pattern
  • Ladybug patterns
  • Frame pattern
  • Green craft foam
  • Red craft foam
  • Black craft foam
  • Yellow craft foam
  • Blue craft foam
  • White craft foam
  • Purple craft foam
  • Googly craft eyes
  • Glue
  • Permanent marker
  • Favorite photo

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Friday, March 16, 2007

Spring Time Activites for Your Lesson Plan

  1. Bean Bag Basket Toss-Students toss the bean bag into a giant Easter Basket.Materials needed: large basket, several bean bags, stickers for participation.
  2. Egg Relay Race-Students run with a plastic egg in a spoon. Go Team Go!!Materials: two large plastic ladles. Plastic eggs filled with confetti.Divide students into two teams. Students carry plastic egg in ladle around a chair and back. then transfer ladle to team member at “home base”. Stickers for all!
  3. Bunny Hop!-Materials: starting line and finishing line marked with chalk. StickersStudents hop, jump, waddle, to the finish line. every one is a winner!Divide students into equal teams. Determine where the starting and finishing line are.Caller (adult in charge) call out the actions the students will take. Eg. Hop like a Bunny, Waddlelike a duck.
  4. Bunny Ears/ Bunny Basket-Students make a Bunny ears headband and make a Bunny Basket from lunch bags.Headbands- construction paper band with construction bunny ears. White ears with pink middles.Students cut out ears and staple to head band. Adult staples headband to fit.Pastel lunch bags - pre-cut a section out of the top to make ears. Bend back section together tomake handle. Students draw on bunny face and glue a cotton tail to the back.
  5. Jumpin’ Jellybean-SortGraphing, sorting, eating.YUM! Materials - miniature jelly beans for sorting. One inch graph paper - crayons.Students sort jelly beans on graph paper- as they lift off candies students color the squareunderneath.

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