Summertime, Summertime!!

Summertime, Summertime!!

 

Crafts

Foam Flip Flops

Trace foot or feet on craft foam

Cut out footprint

Punch three holes into the footprint

String two pieces of a pipe cleaner through the holes

String with beads

 

Tissue Paper Sun

Stick orange tissue paper onto the center of a small paper plate

Stick yellow tissue paper on the rest of the paper plate

Loop yellow strips of construction paper around the edge to make the rays

 

Sponge Balls

Cut a sponge into 3/4" sections

Gather the cut pieces and tie off with string

Fluff as needed

*Soak the sponge balls and have fun throwing them on a hot summer day*

 

Watermelon Sections!

Cut a paper plate into fourths

Paint with bright pink, light pink and green paint

When dry, use black paint dipped in a cotton swap to make the seeds

Paint a large craft stick green

Tape or glue the craft stick to the back of the watermelon

 

Paper Plate Fruit

Paint a paper plate to look like an orange, lemon or lime

 

Learning Activities

Sunny Sums

Math - Addition

Here is the link to this addition activity

 

Scooping Up Sums

Math - addition

I modified this activity a little bit.  I had Connor come up with sums on his own.  The original activity has great visuals with sums and addition sentences.  Here is the link to this addition activity.

 

 

Flip Flop Fragments

Language Arts/Writing - sentences, fragments

Here is the link to this learning activity

 

Firefly Word Work

Literacy - short vowel sounds a and e, sorting

I modified this activity by gluing the HEN and CAT jar to a piece of 8x11 piece of construction paper.  I cut out each firefly, and Addie sorted them appropriately by gluing each firefly to it's matching jar.  This activity would be perfect as a center activity, but I decided to make it more permanent, since Addie was the only one doing it.

Here is the link to this wonderful activity.

 

 

Under The Sea!

Under The Sea

Crafts

Paper Bowl Crab

Paint a bowl red

Paint 4 clothespins red

Cut out 8 long, skinny, rectangles for the legs

Fold each leg in half

Attach 4 legs to each side of the bow - we used tape

Clip the clothespins on the bowl

Hot glue 2, small Styrofoam balls on the top front of the bowl - for eyes

Color a black circle on each ball with permanent marker

 

 

Connor and Addie's Paper Bowl Crab Creatures!

                                   

 

Paper Starfish

Trace a starfish pattern onto brown paper or cardstock

Cut the starfish out

Glue the starfish to blue cardstock

Glue on googly eyes

Draw a mouth

Decorate with ocean/sea life stickers

                                
 

 Here is a similar project we did with Starfish in June of 2009! 

 Awe . . . Connor and Lauren were so little!!!

 I found the main idea for this project on the website www.freekidcrafts.com/texturedstarfish.html I printed the starfish template off of the site and traced it onto card stock/tag board. Connor and Lauren then chose a paint color and painted their starfish. (Connor of course chose blue as his color, and Lauren chose purple). After, they had painted the starfish, we went outside to our sandbox and Connor and Lauren sprinkled (dumped!) sand onto their starfish. We let the project dry. Finally, they glued their starfish onto a brown piece of card stock and decorated the card stock with ocean theme stickers! (Blue card stock or any color would look good too).

 

Paper Bowl Jellyfish

Paint a paper bowl - any color

Let dry - glue on googly eyes

Tape pieces of ribbon to the inside of the bowl, so the string dangles down from the bowl

 

Handprint Crab

Cut a "beach" from brown or tan construction paper and glue it to the bottom of blue construction paper

Paint both hands red and press onto the construction paper with thumbs pointing up

Glue a googly eye onto each thumb

Press a cotton ball into white paint and press onto the blue paper to make clouds

 

 

Big Teeth Sharks - Sort of!!

This project was a flop. First, I ran out of blue construction paper, then my shark cutting skills were not that great.  They don't really look like sharks, but more of monsters with really large mouths.  Oh well! :)

Cut triangles all around a paper plate

Fold the paper plate in half

cut out a shark shape from construction paper - preferably blue

Glue the mouth to the shark and glue on googly eyes

 

 

Learning Activities

Beach Themed Ten Frame 1-10 Matching

Math - counting, one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, matching

Here is the link to this great math game!

 

 Addie doing the follow-up activity

 

Working Hard!!!

 

Summertime Addition 

Math - basic addition

Here is the link to this addition activity

Kids at the Beach Subtraction

Math - subtraction

Here is the link to this subtraction activity

 

4th of July Projects!!

Independence Day Crafts

Handprint Flags

Paint the palm and thumb of one hand blue

Paint the pointer and ring finger white

Paint the middle and pinkie finger red

Press the painted hand onto a blue piece of construction paper (I folded the paper into 4 sections)

Let dry - attach a large craft stick and add star stickers

 

 

Independence Day Paper Lanterns

Cut two strips of blue paper - about 3-4 inches wide

Cut wavy, red strips of paper about 8 inches long

Attach the red strips to the blue strips  - we used tape

Decorate with patriotic Stickers

Connect the two blue strips to make a lantern shape - I used a stapler

Attach a handle with blue or red paper!

 

The Girls!!!