EDIBLE JEWELRY
You will need:
Curling ribbon or string
CheeriOs or Fruit Loops
String the CheeriOs or Fruit loops onto the ribbon
or string and tie it to make a necklace or bracelet.
POPSCICLE PICTURE FRAMES
You will need:
Your child's picture
Popsicle sticks
Food coloring
Rubbing alcohol
Glue
Glitter
small stickers or anything that will decorate
the frames.
Either self sticking magnetic stripping
or curling ribbon (depending on how you want to hang
the frame).
In advance, soak the popsicle sticks in different color mixtures
of rubbing alcohol and food coloring. Let them dry thoroughly.
Glue the sticks together in a square.
When they dry you can decorate them with glitter, stickers, etc.
Glue the child's picture onto the back of the frame.
Now either stick a magnetic strip to the back or glue a loop of
string to the top.
BUBBLE PAINTING
You will need:
bubble solution
at least one bubble wand
paper
food coloring
Add any color food coloring to some bubble solution, the more you
add, the darker the painting will be.
Simply blow the colored bubbles onto the paper to make different
patterns of circles.
BUBBLE SOLUTION
you will need:
2 cups dawn dishwashing soap
6 cups water
3/4 Cup corn syrup
Mix all ingredients together, now you have your own home made
bubbles.
PUPPY, PUPPY
You will need:
anything for a fake bone, it can even be a ball or a small toy.
Have all the children sit in a circle.
pick one person to be the puppy.
That person has to get up and go hide his/her eyes while
pretending to sleep. While the "puppy" is hiding it's eyes you give
the bone to one of the children in the circle. The child must
hide the bone in his/her hands, in his/her lap.
Have all of the other children act like they are also hiding
something in the same way.
When the bone is hidden have the children say, all together,
"puppy, puppy, where's your bone? cops and robbers took
it home. Wake up puppy!"
Now the "puppy" comes and stands in the middle of the circle
and gets three guesses to find out who has the bone.
If the child guesses right then he/she gets to pick the next
person to be the puppy. If not then the teacher can pick.
ALPHABET BINGO
You will need:
Scissors.
Construction paper, blue and red.
A black marker.
A bowl, bag or something for a hopper.
How to make it:
1. Cut out 1 square of red construction paper (6 inches x 6 inches)
for each child. These will be their bingo cards.
2. Draw a 4 inch x 4 inch square in the middle of the red square.
3. Make a grid inside the 4x4 square by making lines every 1 inch.
4. Draw random letters in each square of the grid with the black
marker.
5. Cut out 1 set of 16 blue (1 inch x 1 inch) squares of construction
paper for each child. These will be their bingo chips.
6. Draw the letters on the blue squares to match the letters on the
child's red card.
7. Cut out 26 blue (1 inch x 1 inch) squares of construction paper.
8. Draw the letters of the alphabet on the blue squares, these will
be for your hopper
9.Place the letters in the hopper.
10. Make sure each child has a card.
11. Draw letters out ofthe hopper, and call them out to the children.
12. Whoever has a line of letters marked on their card can call out 'BINGO' and that child has won the game!