St. Patrick's Day and the letter Q!

St. Patrick's Day

and the letter Qq!
St. Patrick's Day Project
Painting with fork!  Mr. Leprechaun
Use a brown crayon to draw a face shape.  Use a black crayon to draw on a mouth and nose, use a pink crayon to make the rosy cheeks.  Press a fork into orange paint to make the beard and hair.  Add a construction paper hat and googly eyes!

Handprint Shamrock

Handprint rainbow and Pot of Gold

Suncatcher Shamrock

Crayon Resist Shamrock

St. Patrick's Day Learning Activities

Shamrock Letters

Skills:  letter recognition, letter writing

Here is the link for Shamrock Letters

St. Patrick's Day Counting

Skills:  counting, number recognition

Here is the link for St. Patrick's Day counting and Lucky Patterns

Lucky Patterns

Skills:  patterns

Rainbow Rhyming

Skills:  rhyming

Here is the link for Rainbow Rhyming and Counting Gold Coins and St. Patrick's Day Graphing

Counting Gold Coins

Skills:  counting, number recognition

St. Patrick's Day Graphing

Skills:  graphing, counting, more, less

The Letter Qq

Qq is for queen

The letter R and Reindeer Fun!

The Letter R and Reindeer Fun!

The Letter R

R is for Reindeer

r is for rainbow

Reindeer Projects

Clothespin Reindeer

Cut a craft stick in half. Paint 3 clothespins brown and the one half of a craft stick brown.

When dry, assemble the clothespins to make reindeer.

Glue on two googly eyes and a red nose.

Shape and Hand Print Reindeer

Cut out a triangle from brown construction paper.  Trace hands onto brown paper.  Cut out red, circle nose, two white, oval eyes and two, black semi-circle eyes.  Assemble the reindeer!

Cardboard Tube Reindeer

Cut out a red circle nose.  Cut a chenille stem into pieces and assemble.  Glue on the red nose, googly eyes & antlers

Paper Plate Reindeer

Color a paper plate brown.  Assemble the antlers.  Cut out two brown ears from craft foam. Draw on two eyes, mouth and rosy cheeks, add a red, glitter nose.

Reindeer Learning Activities

Reindeer, Reindeer What Do You See?  Emergent Reader

Skills:  reading, coloring

Here is the link for this Reindeer Emergent Reader

Reindeer Number Match and Thumbprint Count

Skills:  number recognition, counting, matching

I made these fun counting activities .  They had to match the number to the matching amount of reindeer.  Then they pressed their ink covered thumbs onto the paper to make the corresponding number of thumbprint reindeer!

All of the following activities come from the Preschool Reindeer Pack from Royalbaloo.com  Here is the link for these fun, reindeer themed activities.  Preschool Reindeer Pack

Cutting Strip Practice

Skills:  cutting

The Many Colors of Rudolph!

Skills:  coloring, cutting, pasting, color recognition

R is For Reindeer Letter Maze

Skills:  letter R, letter recognition, following directions

Reindeer Prewriting Practice

Skills:  prewriting

Find the Same

Skills:  same and different

Christmas Matching

Skills:  matching

Spring!!

Spring

Projects

Fork Print Flowers
Press a plastic fork into paint
Press the tines of the fork onto a piece of paper to make flowers
Use green paint to make the flower's stems

Melted Snowman
Paint a white BLOB with paint
Glue on arms, eyes, nose, hat and scarf - cut from construction paper

Hand Print Flower
Paint hand green and press onto a paper plate
Press pointer finger into paint (any color) and press onto the plate to make flowers

Rainbow Ribbon
Cut a rainbow shape from white paper
Draw the rainbow and then color it in with the appropriate colors
Tape ribbon onto the back, bottom side of the rainbow

Robin Footprint
Paint foot brown
Press onto paper
Paint the belly of the robin red and draw on beak, eye, and feet

Rainbow Cloud

Draw a cloud shape onto white paper

Cut colored ribbon into long pieces.

Directions:  Cut the cloud out and draw on a face

Tape the ribbon to the back of the cloud

Learning Activities

Flower Counting
Skills:  counting, one-to-one matching, number recognition
Draw 5 stems and label the stems 1-5
Directions:  Glue on the appropriate number of buttons for each flower

Tulip Name Writing
Skills:  name writing
Cut out tulip shapes and stem shapes
Glue the tulips and stems to paper
Write your name on the tulips

Flower Name Writing
Skills:  name writing

Caterpillar Counting
I created a chart on a Word document with then numbers 1-5 along with 5 caterpillar heads!
Directions:  Say the number.
Glue that same amount of pom poms onto the caterpillar
Draw on legs!

Letter Garden
I cut out flower shapes from colored construction paper
Directions:  Write upper and lowercase letters on the flowers.
Glue the matching upper and lower case flowers above/below each other.

Add stems with a green marker.

Spring Flower CVC Words
I created a document with flower shapes on it
I laminated the Spring Flower CVC Words page so we could reuse it
I cut out flowers from construction paper and wrote beginning consonants on each flower
I wrote i and t on the 2nd and 3rd flowers
Directions:  Make CVC words on the flower mat using the paper flowers!

Addie made the word sit

Making another word

Oh, Mr. Sun!!

Mr. Sun Crafts and Learning Unit!

 

Mr. Sun Crafts

Mr. Sun - Sun Catchers!

Cut 2 identical circles from yellow construction paper.

Cut a circle from the middle of each circle - so you have  openings in the middle (you want the circles to be identical).

Place the circle on Clear Contact Paper

Stick pieces of yellow and orange tissue paper in the middle of the circle.

Cut strips from yellow tissue paper for the rays of the sun.

Place the strips around the tissue paper filled circle.

Place the other circle on top and seal the sun with  Contact paper. 

Cut around the edges to finish the sun.

Hang in a window!

 

Paper Sunshine

Cut a circle out of yellow construction paper.

Glue on yellow craft sticks or yellow pipe cleaners for the sun's rays.

Draw a face on your sun.

 

Sunshine Rainbow!

Cut a yellow paper plate in half. 

Cut triangles from yellow construction paper.

Cut strips of paper from - red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple construction paper.

Glue the yellow triangles to the back of the curved part of the paper plate.

Glue the strips of colored paper to the back of the straight part of the paper plate.

Curl the ends of the paper with a pencil.

 Glue on googly eyes and draw a face.

 

Mr. Sun Learning Activities

 

Mr. Sun 1- 12 Number game

Math - number recognition, counting

Draw a sun onto white paper and write the numbers 1-12 in various places on the sun.

Roll a dice or draw a number card.

Circle and color the number rolled or chosen (if using cards)

Play until all of the numbers are colored in!

 

How Do Your Flowers Grow - Number Activity

Math - Number writing, counting

Glue 3 construction paper sun's on the top of construction paper.

Cut out multiple flowers from different colored construction paper.

Roll a dice (or choose a number card) 

Write the number rolled, (or chosen) on one of the sun's

Count out the matching number of flowers and glue underneath the sunshine.

Continue with the next two sun's! 

 

Mr. Sun Name Writing!

Letter and  name writing

Cut a circle from yellow construction paper.

Cut triangle from yellow construction paper (the sun's rays)

Glue the circle to a piece of blue construction paper.

Write one letter (from your name) onto the triangles

Glue the triangles (ray's) around the sun in the order of your name.

   
Music and Rhymes

We sang this song all week.  The kids loved dancing and singing to it.

Oh, Mr. Sun!
Oh, Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun,
Please shine down on me.

Oh Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun,
Hiding behind a tree

These little children are asking you
To please come out so we can play with you.

Oh Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun,
Please shine down on,
please shine down on,
Please shine down on me.

Here is a link to a You Tube video of the song  Oh, Mr. Sun


We also did this cute fingerplay.  Here is the link to Sunshine Fingerplay

Sunshine Fingerplay - by Terry H.
The sun makes the outside a warm place to play
(arms above head in circle)
It makes the flowers grow each day
(holding up hands wiggling fingers)
The sun hides its face during the night
(cover face with hands)
But during the daytime it shines - oh so bright
(arms above head in circle)

Shining Rainbow!!

 Project:  Shining Rainbow!  Fold a piece of Con-Tact paper in half and cut a rainbow shape, so you end up with two identical rainbows.  Fold a piece of white paper in half and cut a cloud shape, so you end up with two identical clouds.  Remove the backing from one of the rainbow shapes and place sticky side up. Stick the two clouds on the ends of the rainbow.  Rip small pieces of red tissue paper and stick to the top curve of the rainbow.  Repeat with orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.  Remove the backing from the other rainbow and place over the tissue covered rainbow. 
Materials Needed:  Con-Tact paper, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple tissue paper, scissors, white construction paper