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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
Flowerpot
Need: terra cotta pots(1 pot per child), construction paper scraps,
black markers, decoupage or white glue, silk flowers, foam brick (green).
Place tape on the bottom of each flowerpot to write the child's name
on. Have children tear construction into small pieces and glue onto
the flower pots. After gluing children take a black marker and trace
around the each piece scrap construction paper that is on the flowerpot.
After the children have finished their flowerpots an adult needs to
give each pot 2 coats of decoupage (available in craft stores) or 2
coats of white glue. Let dry.
Have a bunch of silk flowers for the children to pick from. Place a
piece of foam brick in each pot and have the children push their
flowers into the brick. Can add green grass under the flowers.
Note: Parents will love this gift as it looks fantastic!
Hand Print
Need: playdough, plaster of paris, meat tray
Take a clean tray and place on table. Place playdough in container
and shape to the size of meat tray. Leave a edge of playdough around
the tray. This keeps the plaster of paris from running out.
Next place a child's hand in the playdough making a deep impression
in the playdough. Then mix the plaster of paris and pour into the
tray covering the handprint. Let this dry. This depends on how thick
the plaster is when you mixed it. When dry you can peel the playdough
from the plaster. This will leave a handprint for you to decorate any
way you wish.
Contributed by: Irma Feurer
DLTK's crafts
for children 3+. Great craft ideas for Mother's Day.
Watercolor
note cards from The Little Artist. These cards are very
lovely and would make wonderful Mother Day cards.
A
History of Mother's Day.
Mother's Day
Color Pages
*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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