Paper Plate Lion

Addie is learning the letter L this week.  I found this cute paper plate lion craft at preschool.com.
Project:  Paper Plate Lion:  Paint a paper plate orange and let dry.  Cut a piece of yellow felt into a circle so it fits in the middle of the paper plate.  Cut a mouth and nose from black felt and glue to the yellow felt circle.  Glue on googly eyes.  Glue the yellow felt circle to the middle of the painted plate.  Cut 1" tabs around the outer edge of the paper plate for the lion's mane.
Materials Needed:  paper plate, orange paint, paint brush, scissors, yellow  and black felt, googly eyes, craft glue

Paper Plate Lion!

Paper Plate Lion

Day 3 of our week - Our theme this week is zoo/safari. The letter of the week is D, d and the number of the week is 7.

Project - The kids made a paper plate lion to go along with our zoo/safari theme. They painted the outer edge of the paper plate orange and the inner circle of the plate yellow. After the paint was dry, Connor and Lauren cut 1 inch strips on the outer orange part of the plate. (the lion's mane) Then, they glued on googly eyes and used a black marker to draw a nose and mouth. This project could be made into a mask by cutting holes for eyes. Materials needed - paper plate, orange and yellow paint, paint brush, googly eyes, black marker, scissors

Lauren's Lion

The finished projects

Other websites for the zoo/safari theme: http://pre-kpages.com/zoo.html and www.prekinders.com/safariunit.htm

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

Today's Activities

1. The letter D,d - beginning sound

2. The number 7 - writing, recognition, one-to-one correspondence

3. Shape review - recognition and following directions

4.The concepts shortest and one one-to-one matching - recognition, following directions