Icicles, Ice Cream, Igloos and the letter I

Icicles, Ice Cream, Igloos 

and the letter I

The Letter Ii

I is for Icicle

i is for igloo

Projects

Icicles

Cut icicle shapes from light blue and white paper and tin foil.  Glue the icicles onto a half sheet of blue construction paper.

Hand Print Ice Cream Cone

Cut a triangle from brown construction paper.  Glue the triangle onto a piece of construction paper.  Paint 1 hand pink and press on to the top part of the triangle (the cone).  Paint white onto the top of the hand print and sprinkle glitter!

Cut and Paste Igloo

With chalk, draw an igloo shape.  Glue on square pieces of white paper.  

Learning Activities

Snowflake Patterns

Skills:  patterns, counting

Winter Wonderland Scissor Practice

Skills:  cutting, fine motor

Here is the link for the fine motor activities found below - Winter Trace and Cut

Winter Wonderland Tracing

Skills:  fine motor, tracing

Winter Wonderland Number Tracing

Skills: number writing

Winter Line-Up  - Following Directions and Ordinal words

Skills:  following directions, counting, coloring, ordinal words

Here is the link for the  Positional and Ordinal Words Activities below.

Snow Day Line Up - Following Directions and Positional Words

Skills:  following directions, cutting, positional words

Superheroes!

Superheroes!
Superhero Learning Activities
Superhero Letter Matching
Skills:  upper and lowercase letter recognition, matching

I found this great letter matching activity from InspiredMama.com here is the link to this Superhero Upper and Lowercase Letter Match activity.

Superhero Word Making  

Skills:  letter sounds, cvc words

 I challenged Addie to make words with these cards (she already knows all of her upper and lowercase letters).  I set out about 10 different cards and gave her words to make.  She did an awesome job making the cvc words.

                                                   Bat                                                      Sat

Bet                                                  Ten 

Monkey Superhero Activities
Here is the link to all of these great Superhero learning Activities 
Superhero Cutting

Skills: scissor practice, pasting, matching

Superhero Counting

Skills:  counting, number recognition

Superhero Matching

Skills:  matching, name writing, 

Superhero Number and Letter Writing

Skills:  number writing, letter writing

Superhero Projects

Superhero Stick Puppets
I found these cute Superhero templates.  Here is the link.  I laminated the superheroes, cut them out and glued and taped each one to a large craft stick.

Superhero Masks
I found these templates for Superhero masks.  I let the kids each decorate their own mask!  Here is the link.

Superhero Footprints

OK - this project didn't turn out as cute as I had hoped for, but I guess it will do!  Oh well, I hope you get the idea!

Fall Fun!

Fall Fun

Projects 

Stamped Cork Fall Tree

Cut a tree trunk from brown paper

Prepare red, yellow and orange paint and 3 wine corks

Directions: 

Glue the tree trunk to a piece of white paper.

Press the corks into the paint and press onto the paper to make leaves!

Ripped Paper Fall Tree

Cut a tree trunk from brown construction paper

Type and print:  In the Fall, the leaves fall off the tree!

Directions:

Rip small pieces of red orange and yellow construction paper

Glue the tree trunk to a 5x7 piece of blue construction paper

Glue the "leaves" to the tree

Glue the poem to the bottom of the tree

 

Fall Leaf Man

Cut out a leaf shape

Cut out strips of black paper for the arms and legs- accordion fold the strips of paper

Type and print:  If I were a leaf, I would . . .

Directions: 

Glue googly eyes to the leaf

Draw a mouth and nose on the leaf man

Finish the sentence

Staple the arms and legs on the leaf man

Staple the finished sentence to the leaf man

 

 

Learning Activities 

Pumpkin Seed Counting Story

Skills:  MathCounting, one-to-one matching, number recognition

Here is the link to this printable book

We used a light pink stamp pad to make the pumpkin seeds on each page

 Leaf Counting Book

Skills:  number writing, counting,  number recognition, name writing

Trace and cut out out a leaf shape to make this book

Directions:

Write the numbers 1-5 on the top of the leaves

Stick the appropriate number of  fall sticker/s on each page

Write your name and  1-5 on the cover

 

 

Acorn Shape Match
Skills:  shape recognition, matching, pasting
Cut acorn shapes from brown and tan construction paper - brown for the top and tan for the bottom.  Draw matching shapes on the top and bottom of each acorn
Directions:
Match the shapes and glue the acorns to the paper

Acorn Number Match
Skills:  number writing, one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, counting,
This is a variation of the acorn shape match
Directions:
Roll two die and add them together
Write the sum on the top part of the acorn
Draw the same number of dots on the bottom of the acorn
Glue the acorn halves to a piece of paper

 

  

Fall Tree Words

Skills:  sight word reading, gluing

Trace hand on a blue piece of paper - color with brown marker

Cut out different colored leaves (I did 6 leaves)

Write sight words on the leaves

Directions:

Read each leaf and then glue it to the tree

 

 

Under The Sea!

Under The Sea

Crafts

Paper Bowl Crab

Paint a bowl red

Paint 4 clothespins red

Cut out 8 long, skinny, rectangles for the legs

Fold each leg in half

Attach 4 legs to each side of the bow - we used tape

Clip the clothespins on the bowl

Hot glue 2, small Styrofoam balls on the top front of the bowl - for eyes

Color a black circle on each ball with permanent marker

 

 

Connor and Addie's Paper Bowl Crab Creatures!

                                   

 

Paper Starfish

Trace a starfish pattern onto brown paper or cardstock

Cut the starfish out

Glue the starfish to blue cardstock

Glue on googly eyes

Draw a mouth

Decorate with ocean/sea life stickers

                                
 

 Here is a similar project we did with Starfish in June of 2009! 

 Awe . . . Connor and Lauren were so little!!!

 I found the main idea for this project on the website www.freekidcrafts.com/texturedstarfish.html I printed the starfish template off of the site and traced it onto card stock/tag board. Connor and Lauren then chose a paint color and painted their starfish. (Connor of course chose blue as his color, and Lauren chose purple). After, they had painted the starfish, we went outside to our sandbox and Connor and Lauren sprinkled (dumped!) sand onto their starfish. We let the project dry. Finally, they glued their starfish onto a brown piece of card stock and decorated the card stock with ocean theme stickers! (Blue card stock or any color would look good too).

 

Paper Bowl Jellyfish

Paint a paper bowl - any color

Let dry - glue on googly eyes

Tape pieces of ribbon to the inside of the bowl, so the string dangles down from the bowl

 

Handprint Crab

Cut a "beach" from brown or tan construction paper and glue it to the bottom of blue construction paper

Paint both hands red and press onto the construction paper with thumbs pointing up

Glue a googly eye onto each thumb

Press a cotton ball into white paint and press onto the blue paper to make clouds

 

 

Big Teeth Sharks - Sort of!!

This project was a flop. First, I ran out of blue construction paper, then my shark cutting skills were not that great.  They don't really look like sharks, but more of monsters with really large mouths.  Oh well! :)

Cut triangles all around a paper plate

Fold the paper plate in half

cut out a shark shape from construction paper - preferably blue

Glue the mouth to the shark and glue on googly eyes

 

 

Learning Activities

Beach Themed Ten Frame 1-10 Matching

Math - counting, one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, matching

Here is the link to this great math game!

 

 Addie doing the follow-up activity

 

Working Hard!!!

 

Summertime Addition 

Math - basic addition

Here is the link to this addition activity

Kids at the Beach Subtraction

Math - subtraction

Here is the link to this subtraction activity