Thanksgiving Placemat!

Addie's Placemat

Ty's Placemat

The theme this week is Thanksgiving!

Project: Thanksgiving Placemat! Ty and Addie constructed their very own construction paper Turkeys out of pre-cut pieces. They glued the pieces to white paper. Next, I painted Ty and Addie's hands with water color paint to make a turkey. I painted each of their palms and thumbs brown, and their remaining fingers different colors. Then they each pressed their hands onto the same white paper as their construction paper turkeys. I added feet and a beak. Ty and Addie gave each of their turkey's one eye with black marker. Ty and I added letter stickers to spell Gobble, gobble. We also added leaf stickers. I wrote Gobble, gobble on Addie's paper with orange marker. We glued the white paper onto colored card stock. Finally I used Contact paper to seal/laminate the placemats! Ty was sooooo excited to use his placemat!

Materials Needed: white paper, colored cardstock, glue stick, brown, red, orange, yellow construction paper, scissors, orange marker. leaf and letter stickers, water color paints, black marker, paint brush, contact paper

Turkey Turkey!!

Ty's Turkey!!

The theme this week is Thanksgiving!

Project: Turkey made from a oatmeal container. I covered an oatmeal canister with brown construction paper. Ty glued on yellow craft foam feet for the turkey and brown, craft foam wings. We covered a foam ball with an old brown sock for the turkey's head and hot glued it to the cover of the oatmeal container. Then we covered a sour cream container with brown paper and glued it to a circle shape piece of brown, craft foam for the turkeys hat. Ty glued googly eyes and a yellow, craft foam beak to the turkeys head!

Turkey Puppet!

This is a repost from last year!
Day 3 of the week - The theme this week is Turkeys. The letter of the week is S, s and the number of the week is 17.

Project - Turkey Puppet - I saw this project in the November 2005 issue of Parents Magazine. Connor and Lauren love playing with puppets, so this was a perfect project for them. Directions: Use a 5 1/8 brown circle scallop card, or cut your own from card stock using scalloped scissors - this is what I did. Trace a leaf four or five times onto colored paper (we used dark orange). Cut each leaf out. Add glue, then glitter to the leaves (Connor and Lauren applied the glue with a paint brush, but they left of the stem of each leaf bare for easier gluing. They used a variety of glitter colors) - let dry. Glue leaves to the back of the paper circle with glittered sides facing up. Cut out a wattle and beak. Glue the wattle and beak to the circle and glue on googly eyes. Glue a large craft stick to the back of the circle. Materials needed - dark brown scallop card or card stock, scalloped scissors, dark orange card stock - or any color for the leaves, red card stock, yellow card stock, scissors, glue, paintbrush, large craft stick, colored glitter, googly eyes

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)

Today's Activities:

The letter S, s- recognition, and beginning sound

The number 17 - recognition and writing

Number Review - recognition, ordering, following directions, cutting and pasting

Coffee Filter Turkey!

This is a repost from last year!
Day 3 of the week - The theme this week is Turkeys. The letter of the week is T, t and the number of the week is 18.

Project - Coffee Filter Turkey - Connor and Lauren used watercolor paints to paint a coffee filter. I drew 1 large circle and 1 medium circle on brown construction paper. Connor and Lauren cut the circles out and glued them one on top of the other onto the dried coffee filter. I cut beaks out of orange construction paper. Connor and Lauren each glued a beak onto the smaller brown circle and added google eyes. Then they glued the finished product onto a colored piece of construction paper. Materials Needed - coffee filter, watercolor paints and brush, brown and orange construction paper, pencil, scissors, googly eyes, 1 piece of any colored construction paper.

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)
Today's Activities:
The letter T, t- recognition, and beginning sound
The number 18- recognition and writing
Number Review - recognition, ordering, following directions, cutting and pasting

Thankful Turkey!

This is a repost from last year!
Day 3 of the week - The theme this week is Thanksgiving. The letter of the week is U, u and the number of the week is 19.

Project - Thankful Turkey - I cut out an upper half of a body (for the turkey) out of brown paper along with a beak out of orange paper. I traced feather shaped patterns onto red, green, orange and yellow paper and Connor and Lauren cut each cut out 4 feathers. I wrote I am thankful for. . . . . on the top of each piece of construction paper. Connor and Lauren glued the turkey body onto their construction paper. They glued the beak onto their turkey and added googly eyes. Next, they brainstormed what they were thankful for and I wrote each of their four things on a piece of paper. They copied the 4 "thankful" words onto each of their turkey feathers. Then, they glued the feathers behind their turkey body. Materials needed - construction paper, brown, green, yellow, red, orange construction paper, googly eyes, scissors, glue, markers

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)

Today's Activities:

The letter U, u - recognition, and beginning sound

The number 19- recognition and writing

Number Review - recognition, counting, following directions, cutting and pasting

Beaded Indian Corn

This is a repost from last year! We made this Indian Corn again this year as gifts for Grandparents!!
Day 2 of the week - The theme this week is Thanksgiving. The letter of the week is U, u and the number of the week is 19

Project - Beaded Indian Corn - Directions - Cut a chenille stem in half and form and x. Wrap one stem around the center of the x twice, leaving a short length of the stem. Bend the three remaining stems to form an Indian corn shape. Connor and Lauren's turn - string beads on each of the three long stems, alternating colors. Bend the end of each stem to secure. (I let Connor and Lauren pattern their own beads - they did a different pattern for each stem). My turn again - Knot a piece of raffia around the short stem. (You can attach a magnet on the back if you want). Materials Needed - scissors, 12-inch chenille stem, tri-beads - red, gold, orange, brown, yellow, clear, Raffia, glue - to help with attaching the Raffia, magnet - optional.

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)
Today's Activities:

The letter U, u- writing, recognition, following directions
The number 19- recognition, writing, counting
Number Review - recognition, counting, ordering, following directions, writing

Painted Turkey!

The theme this week is Thanksgiving!

Project: Painted Turkey - Paint a small and medium size Styrofoam or foam ball brown. Let dry. Glue together to form head and body. Glue on feathers, googly eyes, craft foam beak and pipe cleaner waddle, and craft foam feet! Materials Needed: small and medium Styrofoam/foam balls, brown paint, paint brush, feathers, googly eyes, orange craft foam, red pipe cleaner, scissors, craft glue and or hot glue

D is for Dragon!

The theme this week is the letter D

Project/learning Activity: Again, I am using an idea from the site http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/ Directions: Draw the letter D on green construction paper and cut it out. Cut out small green triangles from another shade of green paper, along with a green circle for the eye. Cut a strip of red tissue paper for the mouth/tongue/fire! Glue all items to the D to make the dragon. Add a googly eye to the middle of the green circle to complete the dragon! Materials Needed: light and dark green construction paper, scissors, glue stick, marker, red tissue paper, googly eye

D is Duck!

The theme this week is the letter D!

Project/Learning Activity: I saw this craft on the site http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/ Directions: Draw the letter D on white paper. Color the D with red, yellow and orange markers or crayons. Cut the letter D out. Glue on a triangle beak, googly eye and feathers!

Materials Needed: white paper, red, yellow and orange markers or crayons, googly eye, orange construction paper, scissors, yellow, orange and white feathers, craft glue

C is for Clown!

Ty's Letter C is for Clown!

The theme this week is the letter C.

Project/Learning Activity: Ty still needs some reinforcement on the letter C, so here is another C project - a CLOWN C!!! We have been up to our ears in C's this week. I am confident he will be able to recognize the letter by the end of the week!!! Directions: I cut a large C out of construction paper. Ty glued the C to another piece of construction paper. Then he decorated the C with crazy foam shapes. He added googly eyes, a smile, and big red pom pom nose. I cut a triangle shape out of scrap paper for the clown's hat, and a shoe shape out of brown scrap paper. Ty glued the hat and shoe to his clown and added more foam and pom poms!

Materials Needed: construction paper, foam shapes, pom poms, scissors, glue stick, craft glue, googly eyes, marker

C is for Caterpillar!

The theme this week is the C.

Project/Learning Activity: I have been teaching Ty his letters for the last 3 weeks. He knows T and Y and we did A and B. We started C last week, but he still needs reinforcement on it. I decided to dedicate this week to the letter C, so Ty can master it by the end of the week. I saw the idea for C is for Caterpillar on the site http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/ First, I cut a letter C out of construction paper. Ty glued the C to another piece of Construction paper. Next, he glued on googly eyes, pipe cleaner antennae and pom poms to the letter C to make his caterpillar. Addie also wanted to do a craft, so I drew the letter A for her with glue on a piece of pink construction paper and she glued pom poms to form a letter A for ADDIE!! Then she wanted to add eyes, a smile, and hands to her letter A! She was very proud of her letter A!!

A is for Addie!

Materials Needed: 2 piece of construction paper, pom poms, googly eyes, pipe cleaner, craft glue, glue stick, scissors