Silver Pipe Cleaner Snowflake!

Cut 8 pipe cleaners in half.
Hold all 16 pipe cleaners in your hand - in one bunch.
Wrap another pipe cleaner around the 16 to secure the pipe cleaners.
Bend and arrange the pieces to make your very own snowflake.
Add fishing line for a hanger.

Cardboard Tube Snowflake!

Addie and I made this cardboard tube snowflake.  We have made these before - well actually Connor and I have made one a few years ago.  Addie and I used silver piper cleaners for her snowflake. 

Addie and her snowflake!

 

Connor's snowflakes

Here is the link to my original blog post detailing how to make the cardboard tube snowflake.

Beaded Backpack Key Rings!

Day 1 of the week. The theme this week is Back To School!

Connor will be starting Kindergarten next week and Ty will be starting 4K, so it is only fitting that our theme this week is Back To School!!

Project: Beaded Backpack Key Rings. Connor, Ty and Addie strung colored beads onto their individual pipe cleaners. Connor and Ty also spelled out their names with letter beads. Connor added "I Rock" as a special touch to his key ring :) I spelled out Addie's name for her. Addie strung all of the beads on by herself (except for her letter beads) she finished before Ty and Connor!! Then I twisted one end of the piper cleaner around a looped key ring, and the other end I twisted shut so the beads wouldn't fall off. Then Addie wanted her bead key ring attached to Connor's lunch box and Connor put his key ring on his backpack. Materials Needed: colored beads, letter beads, pipe cleaners, key rings

Pipe Cleaner Fireworks!

Fireworks!
This week's activities are reposts from last year!

Day 3 of our Week - Our theme this week is the 4th of July! Our letter of the week is the letter A, and the number of the week is the number 10.

Lauren and Connor with their Fireworks!

Making the fireworks

Project - Pipe Cleaner Fireworks. I found this project in the July 2009 issue of Parents Magazine. First, I cut the pipe cleaner or chenille stems in half. You will need five or six whole stems of the same color to make one firework. Then I dumped, red, blue, and silver glitter into separate bowls, and I squeezed white craft glue into a shallow, small container. Connor and Lauren then dipped the ends (about a 1/2 inch) of the pipe cleaners into the glue, and then dipped the glue covered ends into the glitter color of their choice. I set the finished pipe cleaners on a thick box ( I just happened to have an empty resealable bags box handy, the magazine calls for a thick sponge). After the glittered pipe cleaners were dry, I gathered all of the pipe cleaners together except for one and twisted the remaining pipe cleaner around the others. Then, Connor and Lauren bent and twisted the pipe cleaners to form a firework! Then I tied fishing line on to make the firework a hanging craft!!

Materials Needed - Red, white or blue pipe cleaners (chenille stems), scissors, craft or Elmers glue, Red, silver and blue glitter, shallow bowls for the glitter and glue, thick box or sponge, clear thread, or fishing line (optional)

The glittered pipe cleaners, drying

The finished Fireworks!!

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart).
Today's activities
1. The numbers 9 and 10 - counting objects, following directions 2. The concepts big and small. Color identification with big and small
3. The letter A, a - Identifying the letter A, a, recognizing objects that begin with the A sound. 4. Shape - Squares - Identifying and recognizing squares I always do letter/number reviews and they always write their names.

Paper Circle Caterpillar!

Day 1 of the Week - The theme this week is Colorful Spring. The letters of the week are N, n, R
Project - Colorful Paper Circle Caterpillar- Cut circles out of colored construction paper (about 25 circles/caterpillar. Poke the middle of each circle with pen point to make small hole. Push the paper circles onto a pipe cleaner (bend end part of pipe cleaner up, so the paper circles do not fall off), Cut another pipe cleaner in half (for 2 wholes), bend the halves in half and twist (the antennae), Attach the antennae by twisting it around the other pipe cleaner and tape it to the back of the face circle, twist the pipe cleaner into a circle to form the nose. Draw eyes and mouth.
Materials Needed - colored construction paper, pipe cleaners, scissors, tape, marker
Learning Activities
Today's Activities:
Numbers - adding, counting, writing numbers
Beginning Sounds - beginning consonant sounds, recognition, matching
Shapes - tracing, recognition, matching
Writing Letters -Uppercase N

Cardboard Tube Snowflakes!

Day 2 of the week. The theme this week is Snowflakes. The letters of the week are L, l, T the numbers of the week are 6, 7, 8.
Project -Cardboard Tube Snowflakes- I found this project in the December/January issue of Family Fun Magazine. http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/retro-ornaments-807089/ I flattened a cardboard paper towel tube and cut into 3/4 inch-wide ring (ten for each snowflake). Then I used a hole punch to make holes 1/2 inch from the each folded edge. Then Connor and Lauren started stringing a white pipe cleaner through the holes to make the inner circle. I twisted the ends of the pipe cleaner together on Connor and Lauren's tubes. Then I twisted two pipe cleaners together for the outer circle of the cardboard rings. Connor and Lauren strung their pipe cleaners through the holes to make the outer circle of the snowflake. I twisted the ends together and trimmed the excess. Finally, I attached a loop of fishing line for a hanger. *you can paint the tubes white before cutting* Materials Needed - cardboard tubes, white pipe cleaners, hole punch, scissors, fishing line

Learning Activities:
Today's Activities:
Handwriting - Staying in the lines on curvy, zig-zag paths
Numbers- the number 7, writing, counting
Reading Readiness -belongs with
Different Shapes - rectangles
Writing Letters - Lowercase l

Beaded Snowflakes

Day 3 of the week - The theme this week is Snowflakes. The letters of the week are h, I and i the numbers of the week are 4, 5, 6.

Project -Beaded Snowflakes- I twisted three white chenille stems together. Connor and Lauren strung clear tri-beads onto the chenille stems. I twisted the ends over and hot glued a tri-bead on each side of the middle of three twisted chenille stems (to cover up the white chenille stems). I added fishing line as a hanger for the snowflake. Materials Needed - 3 white chenille stems, clear tri-beads, hot glue gun, fishing line

Learning Activities:

Today's Activities:

Handwriting - Staying in the lines on curvy, zig-zag paths

Numbers- the number 6, writing, counting

Reading Readiness -Different size

Different Shapes - triangles

Writing Letters - Lowercase i

Jingle Bell Wreath Ornaments!

Day 1 of the week - The theme this week is Christmas. The letter of the week is Z, z.

Project -Jingle Bell Wreath Ornament - Connor and Lauren strung jingle bells onto chenille stems. I twisted the ends to form a wreath shape and a hook. I tied red ribbons and hot glued them onto the jingle bell wreaths. Materials Needed - jingle bells, chenille stems, red ribbon, hot glue gun.

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 Z, z- writing, recognition, following directions, fine motor skills