The End of a Fun Week

This week has been fun! I've been following the kids and their interests for the most part. In addition to huge amounts of time spent outside, we've been doing a few fun art projects.

One project we did was tissue paper stains. For this one, the kids sprayed paper with water. After it was thoroughly wet (some might even call it soaked....), they cut up pieces of tissue paper all over it. We let it dry for a day, and then took the tissue paper off. The tissue paper stained the white paper and left behind a collage of colored shapes. The process was a ton of fun for the kids! They were so excited to take the tissue paper off and see what was left behind.

Another project we did was shaving cream marbled paintings. I'll let Maddie and Hannah show you what we did!

 

We put stripes of paint on top of some smooth shaving cream.

 We put the paper on top of our painted shaving cream and rubbed the top to get the paint to stick.

Then we pulled it up and scraped off the extra shaving cream.

The end results are really cool! Here are a few:

This was a super, super messy art project. Every kiddo chose to do this one though, so I think that makes it a hit!

Have a fantastic weekend!

Oobleck and Green Eggs and Ham

We continued our fun with Dr. Seuss on Wednesday and Thursday. On Wednesday, we read Bartholomew and the Oobleck. This book is a long one, so we broke it into sections. After the first section, we made our own Oobleck. In case you're wondering how to make it at home, it's just two cups of corn starch and one cup of water. The result is a fabulous goo that is both a solid and a liquid. The kiddos had a blast playing with it.

The afternoon class had an especially fun time with it, because Salem's high school youth group dropped in to play with them. It was interesting to watch the children go from their normal selves to absolutely silent people back to their normal selves in the course of about a half hour. I often forget that the kiddos are just four and five years old and that they are still shy around new people! They had so much fun talking and playing with the high-schoolers!

Today, we spent some time with Green Eggs and Ham. Reading this story aloud is so much fun, because many of the children are familiar with it so they read along with me! It was also a great opportunity for them to fill in the rhyming words for me. I love this book!

Of course, we couldn't read Green Eggs and Ham and not make green eggs and ham, so we did just that. First, we graphed whether or not we thought we'd like them and all but two children said they'd probably like it. Many of them remember making them last year, so they already knew they'd like them! Then we got to cooking. I let the children crack their own eggs, which is always fun for them. Some of them are pretty good at it too. After the eggs were all cooked, the kiddos were excited to eat them! After the whole thing was said and done, all but one kiddo liked them! It was great fun!

Dr. Seuss is so much fun!