stART - Pooh's Pefect Spring Day

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A story + Art = a great stART!!!

For this week's stART project we read Pooh's Perfect Spring Day...part of The Four Seasons... cute book that points out some fun things about spring....Ryleigh loves it...not so much because of the story...but more for the characters in it...

One of Ryleigh's favorite things about spring is that it is warm enough to play outdoors for extended periods of time...her second favorite thing is all the pretty flowers that are in bloom... so for our Art part of the project she made a rose collage....

First she glued a few big pictures of roses around the paper then I had her cut pictures of roses into bits and pieces. Then she glued them on...

Ryleigh proudly cutting the Roses...
Glueing....

The finished project...

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stART - A Good Night Walk

A story + Art = a great stART!!

For this week's stART project, we read A Good Night Walk by Elisha Cooper. In it, they take a walk before bed and as they go around the neighborhood they see things (like the clothes on the line, the mail truck, a pie cooling, etc.) and on the way back home they see the same houses (but with the clothes off the line, the mail truck gone, the pie eaten and the lights out)...

We took our own walk and Ryleigh pointed out some of the things that she saw (a red car, a railroad track, a bank, a mailbox, etc.).... I then tried to find some of the same things in some old magazines. We cut them out and Ryleigh glued them on as a collage...

After we were done with the collage, we "relived" our walk...
as we talked about seeing each item on the collage

Our Materials....

Ryleigh gluing....
The finished collage....

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stART- The Three Snow Bearss

A Story + Art = A great stART!!!

For this week's stART project we read Jan Brett's The Three Snow Bears. It is a cute adaptation of Goldilocks and The Three Bears. We did a collage/sequencing/painting activity for it.

First I had Ryleigh sequence the three bowls, three boots and three beds. Then we glued them on and finished the activity by doing cork prints to represent "snow".... Although MY artwork isn't the greatest (for the bowls, boots and bed) I think the project came out well and Ryleigh had fun retelling the story as we did the collage.

Ryleigh listening to Daddy Read the Story

Ryleigh putting the items in sequence order....

Ryleigh making cork paint prints to represent the snow...she was quick to identify them as circles :)

The finished project

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stART- Pooh and the Falling Leaves

A Story + Art = A great stART


Ryleigh's favorite character is Winnie the Pooh, so for this week's project we read Pooh and the Falling Leaves.

It is a cute book that tells about some of the activities in fall. After we read the book, I had Ryleigh do a fall collage to practice gluing.









I did not have any glitter, so I used expired sugar sprinkles instead. It actually worked really well and was easy to clean up!







Ryleigh working on gluing the "leaves" on the paper









The finished project
















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