A Pizza Party for Snack and Other Fun Stuff

A few random pictures of work I found on my camera today, just thought I'd share.

SIGHT WORD BINGO

HOME-MADE VALENTINES

MAKE YOUR OWN PIZZA FOR A SNACK

More Holiday Crafts and Fun

Decorating an orange with cloves...

Use large push pin tomake a hole in the skin of the orange.

Push clove into orange.

Cover orange completely with cloves and hang with a ribbon as a fragrent ornament.

 Making a beaded tree...

Bubble making...
An eye dropper, a small container of dish soap, a piture for water, a bowl for mixing, a whisk, and a towel for clean up.

Mandala Work...other ideas

Mandala is the Sanskrit word for circle. A mandaal can be any of various geometric designs symbolizing the universe. Mandalas are often used as an aide for focus and meditation.

As part of our classroom's study of the cultures of Asia the children are learning about Mandalas. Here are just a few art projects they have worked on which incorporate a mandala theme...

 These are mandalas made from triangle cut from magazine pictures and glued onto a circle...

 Here are a few photocopied images for coloring and inspriation...

 Here is a fabric madala (see earlier tuttorial post)...

 Some mandalas can be made just by gluing different shapes and colors together...

Happy Lunar New Year!

Here are some pictures from our Lunar New Year celebration. The children made the dragon head from a cardboard box, tissue paper, and found objects (the eyes are detergent bottle tops and dog show ribbons!). The body is a table cloth.

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Here are some more Lunar new Year themed cutting works out in our art area...

For the year of the ox a great printable from http://secret-agent-josephine.com/blog/year-of-the-ox-cut-out/

A simple three dimensional star. Just draw two stars of the same size. I made a template and ran off a bunch on my printer. I find cardstock works best. After cutting out the outline of the stars, make one cut from the valley between two points to the center of the star. Do the same for the second star. Join the stars at the place where you made the cuts by sliding them together.

Making a Countdown Tree

Here is a simple project to countdown the days to the new year (and/or the Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas). Change the date by sliding the counting strip through the tree. I choose to leave my tree plain so as not to influence the children's creativity on how they decorate theirs.

Take a scrap of heavyweight paper (like construction paper or card stock) or a piece of scrap wall paper, fold in half and trace a half of tree onto the paper. Cut out the tree and fold in half in the other direction (top to bottom) and in the center make two small one inch cuts about a half inch apart.
Create a long strip of paper with 31 one inch squares and have the child write one number in each square counting from 1 to 31. I just cut three 1 x 11 inch inch strips from a scrap piece of card stock and taped them together.

Feed the strip through the slits cut in the tree and tape the strip into a circle. Set the correct date and start your countdown.

You can add a different decoration to the tree each day.