| Activity Ideas: Art: "I use gumdrops, wooden skewers, and cookies to make a cookie bouquet. We wrap them in cellophane and add a little curly ribbon. Here is an example...first slide on a gumdrop, then let's say a marshmallow topped cookie, followed by another gumdrop. The gumdrops help to hold the cookie in place. I bring several types of cookies that would work, and the children design about three cookies to complete their bouquet." Barbara Flower Necklace Cut out many flower shaped cutouts in a variety of colors. Have the child decorate with markers and crayons. Laminate the leaves (optional), then punch a hole in the stems and give the child some string or yarn, and have them thread them on to make a necklace. Muffin Cup Flowers Children can glue muffin cup liners to paper, add stems and leaves using construction paper. You can even add a little perfume to the muffin cup liner to make a sweet smelling flower! Flowers Materials: cupcake papers, pipe cleaners, green construction paper. Directions: Take a cupcake paper and pinch the bottom of it. Then take a pipe cleaner and wrap it around the pinched area. Cut some leaves out of green paper and add them to the pipe cleaner. Extension: Put some play dough in a baby food jar and have the children place the flowers in the jar like it was a vase. When the play dough dries they should stand nice. You can also decorate some tissue paper to cover the outside of the bottle. Flower Craft Dye rice and different shapes of pasta using some rubbing alcohol and food coloring. Let it dry. Take those and have your children or students glue it on paper plates to make flowers. You can even glue glitter or other things onto the flower. Place precut paper stem and leaves to put under the finished flower. Hand Print Tulips Paint palm and fingers (with or without thumb) any color. Use finger to paint stem and leaves. Coffee Filter Flowers Have students color the coffee filter using washable markers in springtime colors. Caution them to not color too much in one place or they’ll make a hole in the filter. (They don’t even have to color the whole filter, cut colors will run when wet.) Place the filters on newspaper and spray gently with water from a spray bottle. The colors run and create a beautiful effect. When dry, gather in the center and use a green pipe cleaner to form a stem. Fluff open. Make a couple of leaf shapes and place a hole in them with a hole punch. Thread the leaves onto the stem. Language: Daffodil Poem A little yellow cup. A little yellow frill. A little yellow star, and that's a Daffodil! Five Spring Flowers The first one said, "We need rain to grow!" The second one said, "Oh my, we need water!" The third one said, "Yes, it is getting hotter!" The fourth one said, "I see clouds in the sky." The fifth one said, "I wonder why?" Music The rain begins to fall.... The sun begins to shine.... The plants begin to grow..... The buds all open up..... The flowers smile at me...... |
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| c. Marcia Arpin www.alltheDAZE.com established July, 1, 2002 |
| Words of Wisdom "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." Dr. Seuss |
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