Fun Projects for the 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!

Projects

Hand Print Flag

Paint one hand with red, white and blue paint and press it onto construction paper.  Let dry - add stars

Painted/Glitter Stars

Cut out a star shape and paint with red, white and blue paint - sprinkle with glitter.

 Patriotic Rocks

Paint rocks with red, white and blue paint

 Painted Q-tip Fireworks

Cut Q-tips in half, paint the ends.  When dry, glue onto black paper in the shape of fireworks

Father's Day Projects

Happy Father's Day!

Father's Day Projects

Best Dad Hands Down

Create a document and print

2013 in top right corner and best dad in top left corner

Hands down centered on the bottom

Paint both hands and press onto the paper - hands down!

Dad Rocks!
Brainstorm words that describe DAD!
Type and print the words out
Cut each word into an oval shape
find appropriate sized rocks
Mod Podge the words onto rocks
Place them in a basket and give to DAD!

Fishing You a Happy Father's Day!
Cut out a fish shape
Tear colored construction paper into pieces and glue onto the fish. 
Glue the fish to a folded piece of blue construction paper.
Write, Dad - Fishing you a Happy Father's Day
Draw a line and hook.

 

Father's Day 2013 Questionnaire

I created my own questionnaire based off of one I saw

Addie's answers about her dad!

My favorite answer - My favorite thing about my Dad is . . . he drinks beer.

Oh the things children say!

 

Tana's answers about her dad!

My favorite answer(s)  - Daddy always tells me . . . to go in a time out.

and It makes my Dad happy when . . . me not naughty.

Rock Leaf Print

Rock Leaf Print:  Find a medium to large size flat rock.  Clean and let dry.  Paint a leaf either orange, red or yellow.  Press the leaf onto the rock.  Let dry.  Seal with spray sealer. 

Materials Needed:  rock, paint, paint brush, leaf, Polyurethane Sealer

Jack-O-Lantern Rock!

Addie's Rock

Ty's Rock

The theme this week is Halloween!

Project: Jack-O-Lantern Rocks! This project was inspired by a rock painting project that my dear friend Nichole featured on her blog http://www.minimatisse.blogspot.com/ She is an amazing mom, friend, teacher and artist!! Thanks for the inspiration Nichole!! Ty and Addie loved painting their rocks and then peeling off the tape to reveal their very own jack-0-lantern rock.

Directions: Cut jack-o-lantern features from painters tape and fasten to rock. Paint the whole rock orange. Let dry, then remove tape pieces. Spray with sealant if you want to leave the rock outside. I used a polyurethane varnish spray! Materials Needed: rock, paintbrush, orange paint, painters tape, scissors, varnish spray

Sun Rocks!

Day 2 of the week. The theme this week is Hot Stuff!!

Project - Sun Rocks. We are temporarily without a house for about a month, so the kids and I are staying at my parents while my husband works on remodeling our new house - in our new town! So, today Connor did this project with his cousin Caitlyn and his Aunt Kinsey! Caitlyn painted 3 rocks - she seemed to really have fun creating different suns. Directions: Find flat smooth rocks. Use orange and yellow paint to paint the sun on each rock. Materials Needed - flat, smooth rocks, paint brushes, yellow and orange paint

Learning Activities

Today's Activities:

Alphabet: L, writing and beginning sound

Numbers 1-10: 2 writing the number and word

Math Readiness: 1, 2, 3, 4 - writing and counting

Reading Readiness: making pairs

Kindergarten Skills: Story order

Swirly Stones!

Day 2 of the Week - The theme this week is Colorful Spring. The letters of the week are N, n, R

Project - Swirly Stones- I saw this project in the July/August 2006 issue of Family Fun Magazine. http://www.familyfun.com/magazine Directions: Take flat, smooth rocks, clean them off, and bake them for 15 minutes on a foil lined cookie sheet in a 225 degree oven. Remove the rocks from the stove (with an oven mitt), and set them on a pad of newspapers. Use old crayons (with out the wrappers) and draw on the hot rocks. The heat will melt the crayons into liquid wax. For a swirly effect, hold each crayon against the rock in one place to create a puddle of color and use the end of the crayon to swirl it around. Connor and Lauren had a lot of fun mixing colors, and making designs on their rocks. They were very careful with the hot rocks, and they liked seeing how the crayons melted on the hot rocks.

Materials Needed - smooth, flat rocks, old crayons, oven, oven mitt, tin foil, cookie sheet, newspaper

Learning Activities

Today's Activities:

Numbers - adding, counting, writing numbers

Beginning Sounds - beginning consonant sounds, recognition, matching

Shapes - recognition, counting

Writing Letters -Lowercase n

Pom Pom Frog and Rock Frog!

Pom Pom Frog and Rock Frog!

***This is a project that we did back in July of 2009. I was looking at my older posts and I came across this one. The frogs were easy to make, so cute and fun, so I thought I would post this project again. Lauren especially loved her little frogs!

Day 3 of our Week - Our theme this week is Ponds! Our letter of the week is the letter B, and the numbers of the week are 7 and 8 and 0-10.

Project - Pom pom frog. I traced a top from a soup can onto green foam and cut a triangle shape out of it. Then Connor and Lauren glued 1 large green pom pom onto the lily pad with hot glue ( I helped). Then they glued 2 googly eyes onto 2 small green pom poms with hot glue. Then they glued the two pom poms onto the large green pom pom to finish the project! Materials needed - green foam, 1 large green pom pom, 2 small green pom poms, 2 googly eyes, scissors, hot glue or craft glue.

Project - Rock Frog. Connor and Laurent found two smooth rocks by our driveway. They painted their rock green and let dry. Then I drew a frog body onto green foam (2 front legs, and 2 hind legs). After the painted rock was dry, Connor and Lauren used the hot glue gun to glue on googly eyes. (I helped) Then, they glued the rock to the foam from body and the project was done!! Very simple, but fun. They wanted to make more. Materials needed - smooth rock, googly eyes, green craft foam, scissors, green paint, paintbrush, hot glue or craft glue.

Connor and Lauren's completed frogs!

Additional websites for a pond theme unit - http://www.prekinders.com/pondlifeunit.htm http://www.thevirtualvine.com/frogs.html

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 0-10 - number recognition, fine-motor skills

2. Matching like items - matching and fine-motor skills

3. The letter B, b - recognizing the letter B, b.

4. Shape - Rectangle - recognition.

I always do letter/number reviews and they always write their names.