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Special
Days
*Mother
Goose Day
A to Z Kids Stuffs Rhymes
Print and color.
Queen of Hearts' Tarts
Ingredients: Use refrigerator biscuits and cherry pie filling.
Have the children flatten the biscuits and then put a spoon full of
pie filling in the middle of the circle. Fold one edge of the biscuit
over and seal shut.
Bake until golden brown. Watch them because the children flatten them
and they cook quickly.
*Mother's
Day moved to here
*Mural
Day
Jan Brett-Honey..Honey...Lion Coloring Mural
Make a mural from Africa.
Jan Brett-Umbrella Coloring Mural
Make a Rainforest mural
Jan Brett-The Three Snow Bears coloring mural
Make a mural of the Arctic.
Jan Brett- Hedgie Blasts Off! coloring mural
Make an outerspace mural.
Jan Brett-On Noah's Ark coloring mural
*PJ
Day
Pp is for pajamas color page.
Have all staff (new pj's) and children wear pajamas this day.
You can combine this day with other themes: Teddy
Bear Day, Letter P, Day and
Night, Health. Watch a favorite video.
Have the children bring their favorite stuffed animal, games, and
books. They also can bring sleeping bags or a pillow and blanket to
lay around the room and to sleep with at nap time.
For breakfast have pancakes and fruit or have toast with different
toppings. Have the children bring sack lunches or have each child
bring a dollar and order pizzas.
Clear away the tables and add bean bags, big pillows, blankets, and
sleeping bags to your room. Put out board games, floor puzzles, dolls
and clothes, cars and a rug, puppets, flannel board pieces. Build
tents by placing blankets over the tables.
*Snacks
Popcorn, pretzels, hot chocolate, or make a sleepover
party cake.
*Books
The
Napping House
By Don and Audrey Wood
The
Napping House Lesson Plan
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber, Arthur's First Sleepover  by Marc Brown, There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer
*Rainbow
Day
*Fingerplays/Songs
Rainbow Song
Tune: Hush, Little Baby
Rainbow purple, rainbow blue,
Rainbow green and yellow too,
Rainbow orange, rainbow red,
Rainbow shining overhead.
Come and count the colors with me.
How many colors can you see?
One, two, three, up to green,
Four, five, six colors can be seen.
Rainbow purple, rainbow blue,
Rainbow green and yellow too,
Rainbow orange, rainbow red,
Rainbow shining overhead.
*Art
Erupting Colors
Materials: Clear bowl or baking pan, milk, food coloring, liquid
dishwashing soap Pour milk into a cake pan to cover the bottom,
usually about 1" deep. Sprinkle several drops of food coloring
on the milk. Now add a few drops of dishwashing detergent in the
centers of the largest drops of color. Watch the erupting, boiling colors!
(If the colors stop erupting after awhile, begin again from clean
milk and colors and detergent.)
*Snacks
Rainbow Fruits
Serve a different colored snack each day. An example would be to
correspond with colors of the rainbow.
Examples: strawberries, oranges, lemon finger gelatin (see a gelatin
box for recipe), blueberries added to yogurt, grape juice, grapes or
blackberries, lettuce salad.
Rainbow Jello
Each day mix up a color of Jell-O, start with red. Pour small amount
into a clear plastic cup. Allow to harden and then add orange. Follow
this procedure with all the other colors, at the end of the week you
will have your own rainbow.
Rainbow Pudding
Make vanilla pudding and divide it into three parts. Make one part
red, one yellow, and one blue. Give children a color combination, and
watch as new colors appear.
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