The Letter W and Witches

The Letter W and Witches

The Letter W

W is for witch

W is for Watermelon

w is for worm

Witch Projects

Foot Print Witch

Paint one foot green and press onto paper.  When dry add details with permanent markers.

Craft Stick Witch

Glue 7 green craft sticks together.  Cut out black hat from craft foam.  Cut out a colored strip for the hat.  Cut chenille stems in half (2 for each witch).  Draw on facial features.  

Directions:  Glue on hair, hat and eyes

Hand Print Witch

Paint one hand green and press onto white paper.  Let dry.  Draw hat, nose, mouth hair and broom.  Glue on two googly eyes.

Green Witch Homemade Play Dough

We made our own play dough and dyed it green.  I covered old Play-Doh containers with green paper, made a simple, cone shaped witches hat, glued on eyes, nose and drew a mouth!

Witch Learning Activities

Green Witch, Green Witch Emergent Reader

Skills:  coloring, beginning reading

Here is the link for this cute, printable book,  Green Witch, Green Witch  under Halloween.

Shape Witch

Skills:  Shapes, counting, following directions

I cut out the different shapes for the witch - I traced their hands .  They followed my directions to put the witch together.  Then they counted the circles, triangles, and rectangles and filled in the appropriate blanks.

Tana's Witch

Joey's Witch

Witch Patterns

Skills:  patterns

I printed off a bunch of different witch clip art.  The kiddos each made their own patterns

Witch Hat Memory Game

Skills:  same, different,  matching, memory

Here is the link to this Witch Hat Memory Game

Coloring Witches Hats

Skills:  coloring, following directions

Here is the link for this Witch Hat Coloring Activity

Easter

Easter

Learning Activities

Easter Bunny Name Writing

Skills:  Name writing, letter recognition

I traced and cut out Easter Bunny Heads from pink and yellow construction paper.

I drew on the facial features

Joey and Tana glued the cut-outs to a strip of construction paper.

Tana wrote her own name and Joey spelled his name while I wrote it!

Do The Bunny Hop

A CVC Word Game

Skills:  reading, cvc words

Here is the link for Do the Bunny Hop!

Easter Egg Number Match

Skills:  number recognition, counting, number order

We did this activity last year too!  This year Tana joined in on the activity.  We have been working on number recognition 1-5 with her.  I had Addie match up the rest of the numbers 6-12.

Directions:

I labeled the top half of each egg with a number (1-12) and the bottom half with dots (1-12)

A Match

More matching

Then they put the completed eggs in number order 1-12

Projects

 Easter Bunny Countdown Chain

Addie wanted to make a countdown to Easter.  We decided on doing a paper chain countdown.  There are 18 more days until Easter so we needed 18 strips of paper.

Directions:  Cut out 1 inch strips of white paper

Make the strips into loops and staple them to make a countdown chain.

On the top loop, glue on ears and draw a bunny face!

Easter Chick Stamping with Wine Corks

Press a wine cork into yellow paint.

Press the paint covered cork onto white paper

Use a toothpick to draw on the wings/feathers

When dry, draw on the feet, beak and eyes!

Keely using the cork to stamp out her Easter Chicks!

Easter Egg Bunnies!

I saw this cute project in Parents Magazine.  Here is the link for this cute Easter Bunny project.

The Front of the Bunnies!

The Backsides!

Fingerprint Sheep

Cut out a head and feet from black construction paper.  

Tie a bow from ribbon

Directions:  Glue the head and feet to a 5x7 piece of construction paper.

Dip your pointer finger into white paint and press your painted finger all around the sheep's head.  Glue on googly eyes and the bow.

Hand print Carrots

Cut an orange triangle from construction paper.

Cut squares of orange tissue paper

Paint both hands green and press hands onto green paper, making three hand prints.

Directions:  Glue orange tissue squares onto the triangle.

Cut around the hand prints and glue the hand prints to make the stem for the carrot.

Footprint Bunnies

Trace both feet onto colored construction paper.

Cut out the footprints and glue them onto construction paper.  Overlap the heels.

Glue on googly eyes, button nose and chenille stem whiskers.  

Footprint Carrot and Bunny

Paint 1 foot orange and the other foot pink or blue or whatever color!

Press both feet onto white paper - make sure the orange foot is placed toes up.

When dry add the details

Fingerprint Bunnies

Cut a circle from white paper

Tie a bow with yarn or ribbon

Directions:  Glue the circle onto construction paper.

Glue on googly eyes, a button nose and the ribbon.

Cover a fingertip with white paint and press it onto the paper to make two bunny ears.

Draw on whiskers and a mouth

St. Patrick's Day Fun

St. Patrick's Day

Learning Activities

Pot of Gold Addition

Skills:  Addition, counting

Cut out Pot of gold shapes from black and yellow construction paper

Roll dice to make addition sentences.  Add the numbers together and glue the correct sum (gold pieces) in to the pot

Addie doing the Pot of Gold Addition!

Pot of Gold Numbers

Skills:  number recognition, counting

Just like above glue the pots of gold onto paper along with 3 different numbers.

Count out the corresponding number of pieces of gold and the pieces of gold onto the pot!

Tana gluing her pieces of gold onto the number 2  pot!

This is a  . . . .  flip book

Skills:  coloring, reading

Here is the link for this St. Patrick's Day Flip Book

Shamrock Scissor Practice

Skills:  Cutting, coloring, gluing

One Little Leprechaun

Skills:  Math - counting, number recognition

Here is the link to this Leprechaun counting  printable

This also includes a cute song!

Here is the link to all of these St. Patrick's Day Math and Literacy activities found below!

                                                      Pots of Gold Rhyming                                                    

Skills:  rhyming, short vowel sounds

 Leprechaun Sentence  Scramble  

Skills:high frequency words, writing, basic sentence structure

          Adding Shamrocks

                                                          Skills: writing numbers adding

Lucky Gold - Tens and Ones

Skills:  counting with tens, writing numbers

Lucky Shamrock Words!

Skills:  reading high frequency words, following directions

Here is the link for these fun reading Leprechaun themed games found below!

Pots of Gold Beginning Sounds

 Skills:  beginning sounds, letter writing

Pot of Gold Ending Sounds

Skills:  ending sounds

Pot of Gold Words

Skills:  making cvc words

Cut out pots of gold.  

Print off gold coins

Write word endings on the coins and paste them onto the pots of gold

Directions:  Make words that have the same word endings as on the pot of gold!

All About St. Patrick's Day Book

Here is link for this kid friendly, printable, informational book about St. Patrick's Day!  I read this simple 5 page books to the kiddos, so they had a better understanding of what St. Patrick's Day is all about.

Projects

Leprechaun Rainbow Hat

Trace a Leprechaun Hat onto green paper

Cut out a black strip from black construction paper and a yellow buckle from gold paper.  

Cut out strips of blue, green, yellow, orange and red paper

Directions:  Cut out the hat.

Glue on the black strip and yellow buckle.

Flip the hat over and glue on the rainbow strips.  (We glued our strips on the wrong way - as you can see, so make sure when you flip the hat over to start gluing on the right side of the hat!)

Paper Plate Leprechaun
Color a paper plate with a skin tone crayon
Cut a hat from green paper along with a black strip and a yellow buckle
Cut squares of orange tissue paper
Glue the orange squares of tissue paper around the edge of the paper plate
Glue on the hat and accessories to the hat
Draw a face on the leprechaun
Add more tissue paper squares for the beard and hair

Clothespin Pot of Gold
Cut a black pot of gold from craft foam
Cut gold coins from yellow craft foam
Directions:  Paint the clothes pins - red, orange, yellow, green and blue
Let the clothespins dry
Glue the gold coins onto the pot of gold
Stick craft foam letters onto the pot to spell each name.
Clip on the painted clothespins

Muffin Paper Shamrock
These were so easy to make.  Here are the directions!
We used watercolor paint instead food coloring!

Shamrock Paper Plate Hats

Draw a shamrock onto a paper plate

Color or paint both sides of the paper plate

Cut out the middle of the plate and around the shamrock

Rainbow Chain Pot of Gold!
Here is the link where I found this cute Rainbow Chain project 
Cut out a pot of gold from black paper
Cut out 7 gold coins for each pot of gold
Glue the coins to the top of the pot
Cut a black strip of paper and tape it in a loop to the back of the pot
Cut strips from - red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple paper 
Loop the purple strip through the black handle of the pot of gold and staple
Continue with the blue strip, then green . . .  until finished