stART- Goodbye April...Hello May...

A Story + Art = a great stART!

We have read many books about spring... one of Ryleigh's favorites was Pooh's Favorite Things About Spring...by Kathleen W. Zoehfeld.... mainly because it was about Winnie the Pooh...

Although we did these projects a week apart- they totally go together... as...April Showers bring May Flowers... (hopefully!)... We made fingerprint raindrop/ Umbrella pictures (April) and handprint flowers (May)....who doesn't love handprint projects? I did both projects in the TSB (Tot School Beginnings) and Preschool classes.... I think they both turned out cute!

I had the kids (in both classes) decorate their umbrellas before we glued them onto the rain page...

Ryleigh making the finger print raindrops...

The April Showers pictures that Braeden and Ryleigh made...

Ryleigh's flowers....tulips perhaps?

Braeden...excitedly waiting to do his project...

Braeden's flowers...

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stART - Pooh and the Falling Leaves 2010

A story + Art = a great stART!!!

We read Pooh and the Falling Leaves again for stART (we read it all the time, but we are using it again for stART...our last year project can be seen here... it was our second ever stART project and waaaaay back at the beginning of my blogging....).

For our project this week we did leaf outline painting...I taped silk leaves (that I got from the Target dollar spot) to construction paper and had the girls roller paint over them...and then remove them to show the outline of the leaves....

Ryleigh painting the leaves...because the leaves were silk...they detached a little too easily from the tape...making painting a tad difficult...

Ryleigh removing the silk leaves from the paper to reveal the print...

The finished project...I am thinking next time I will just use real leaves...

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stART - Winne the Pooh

A Story + Art = A great stART!!!

We have been reading chapters out of the Complete Tales of Winne the Pooh... Ryleigh loves pooh bear... as do I... I actually had this book long before she was born.... so for our stART project this week...which has absolutely nothing to do with the book...except that Pooh and Christopher Robin go on a picnic...and we used condiment containers...which remind me of summer...the season of picnics...we did some open ended painting....

I saw these ketchup and mustard bottles in the Dollar Tree and thought that they would be fun to paint with. In one I put water and food coloring ... and in the other I put some pink paint...and water....the food coloring bottle worked much better.... This was actually less messy than I anticipated.... and Ryleigh LOVED it!!!

Ryleigh "painting" with the bottles...

The finished project...one of them...because she did lots....

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