Flags

This is just an easy project that comes out beautiful.  Watercolor on cotton rectangles staple to large Popsicle sticks.  They make beautiful flags, dry rather quickly, and the children love the outcome.

Here are more photos from paper flags that we recently made available as a free art station.

Saguaro Ornaments

This activity can sadly be posted under Pinterest fail!  I wish I got a picture of the finished product before the all crumbled to a sad demise.  

I may have actually cried.

This is an air dry recipe that is made of corn starch, baking soda, and water.  It looks beautiful, but easily fails apart.

Oh well, teachers are always learning, right?

Sigh.

Glove Turkeys

Okay, I actually got this idea from the New Girl episode I watched last night, but still it did come out cute!  After we colored our turkeys with permanent marker, we put leashes on them and gave them names. 

Fairy See-Saws

I saw a really cute fairy see-saw on Etsy last weekend and thought how cute it would be next to the fairy tire swing. Then looking at it closely I thought, "Hey, I actually have all the things I need to make those!"  So wah-la!!!  Fairy see-saw ala large Popsicle sticks and double-sided tacks.  Cute and really easy to make.

I just cut the Popsicle stick with kitchen scissors, put tacks in (I actually put a piece of a smaller Popsicle stick underneath, so that the tack would be more stable), painted them, and found a piece of wood to nail them into.

And look how cute they are next to the tire swing!

Hot Air Balloons

The last couple of weeks I have been teaching about hot air ballons and how they work.  The children also made their own hot air ballons out of paper mache and berry baskets.  I couldn't get any pictures of the process, because it was so messy, but here are some of the finished balloons.

In retrospect, I wouldn't do this project again with such a young group of children.  The attention span of paper macheing a whole ballon per kid, was hard for 3 to 4 year olds.  But this would be a fun project for over 5!

Sensory Bins

Just a few pictures of different senory bins in our classroom.  I'm hoping to keep this updated and post more pictures as the year goes by.  Let's start with something simple.

Shaving Cream!

Desert habitat.

Painting rocks with water.

Water marbles.

Sea Animals in water.  This smelled horrible!  Never try real starfish in water. Bleh.

Ice Castles: ice, salt, and watercolor!

Studying precipitation and clouds with shaving cream and drops of food color.

Magnets

Felt Food

Pictures of felt food I made for our classroom:

Pictures my colleague, Ms. Shyleigh, made to go with the book Build a Burrito:

And our classroom pizza making kit: