August 4th, 2010 by admin
Alex Toys My Giant Busy Box
This box is a very convenient way to keep you creative kids busy for hours! A mom says: “I appreciate the ability to whip out a pre-packaged craft project that engages my little one without pre-planning or looking up ideas online, or taking her to buy supplies (in small quantities) for similar projects”.
Buy Alex Toys My Giant Busy Box
August 4th, 2010 by admin
The Flat Stanley Story
Inspired by Jeff Brown’s book entitled Flat Stanley, this activity is designed to encourage children to share ideas and information with others, and taking part in the project is a good way to improve reading and writing skills. It also combines writing with many school subjects, including math, science, geography, social studies, and art.
To participate, the child creates a drawing of the book’s main character and cuts out the figure. Next, he takes him to visit other people or to see local points of interest, and he records his paper pal’s experiences in a journal. Then Flat Stanley, the journal, and a letter explaining the project are mailed to someone else who continues the activity and documents the character’s adventures in the small book.
After a few days, the flat friend and journal are returned to the original sender. Sometimes the character returns with souvenirs, postcards, or photos showing places to which he traveled or people with whom he visited. Flat Stanley has had some exciting adventures during his lifetime. He’s met several presidents, appeared on television, and even gone into space on a NASA Space Shuttle!
Read more: http://www.flatstanley.com/how.html
July 17th, 2009 by admin
The website KOL Jr offers free online bedtime stories for preschoolers.The stories are organized into the categories Animals, Arthur, Fairy Tales, Family and Rhyming.
A bedtime story about Arthur and his new puppy at KOL Jr.
Other good sites where you can look for free online stories for kids include Starfall.com and Speakaboos.com.
June 25th, 2009 by admin
The blog Elementary Art Lessons features instructions for beautiful art projects for preschoolers, Kindergarten and also for older kids. The blog is very attractive, instructive and has plenty of illustrations.
Projects include scratch art, cave art, shape collage, 3D scuplture and much more.!
A pretty scratch art project in Grade 1, from the blog Elementary Art Lessons.
June 25th, 2009 by admin
The website Toy-A-Day offers one new printable paper toy pattern in PDF format per day. Using these PDF:s, you can build famous cartoon characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Super Mario and Pokemon, or famous people, including Barrack Obama!
A Pokemon paper toy from the Toy-a-day blog.
The printable PDF pattern for building the Pokemon paper toy.
June 22nd, 2009 by admin
A fun craft activity for kids is to build spotted paper mushrooms out of construction paper and recycled toilet paper tubes. These are easy to build, so you could quickly create an entire forest of red mushrooms!
Source: simplekidscrafts.com.
May 26th, 2009 by admin
The website simplekidscrafts.com has published a number of great Youtube videos on preschool crafts. One of them is the above video instruction on how to build your own cute ladybug, complete with black dots!
You will need the following materials to make the insect:
- one large red pom pom
- one medium black pom pom
- one pipe cleaner
- two googly plastic eyes
- a piece of lace + one bead (optional)
You will find all the instructions in the video! Good luck!