Tie Dye and Sand Art ~ Messy Summer Fun Week 3 2012

During the Summer I hold Messy Summer Fun Classes/Workshops/Camp-days...on Mondays. Each session includes a sensory tub, messy craft, ice sculpture to melt, messy gross motor activity and snack....This week for our Tie Dye and Sand Art Messy Fun, I had 22 Children... however, everyone worked together and things stayed pretty organized...and everyone got to make both projects. 

Some of the kids in their finished shirts...

This week's ice sculpture had dice erasers inside...

 With so many kids this week... the 3 sculptures were melted quickly...

 Playing with the water sensory bin....sea life themed...

 Shaving Cream Balloons...

 Relay/obstacle course/ free for all.... shaving cream balloons, hippity hop, hula hoop...lots of mess!

 Hippity hops are fun...but running is faster and means twice as many balloons...

 It actually stayed pretty organized...

 Sand Art.... half of the kids did Sand Art while the other half did their tie dye shirts... 

then they switched... a very organized chaos....

 The kids had 12 colors to choose from....and chopsticks to make fun designs...

Some of the finished bottles...

 Meanwhile at the Tie Dye table..... 

 Ryleigh working on her shirt...

 Ryleigh went with a giant swirl method....

 3 of the finished shirts.... 

We finished off the day with homemade snowcones for snack.... yummy on a hot day!!!

For more fun projects check out ABC and 123... . and Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations;

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Ryleigh is 4 (Just) and Braeden is 21 Months

Apparently... I have not done an actual school post since the middle of April... (oops)... working is really cutting into my blog time... better than cutting into school time I suppose... Anyway... instead of posting all 565 pictures that have been taken since the middle of April... I have narrowed it down to some highlights... also... some pictures and projects can be found in my stART posts... further...coming up in posts...because I know you totally want to know... will be Ryleigh's Birthday and Dance recital...

Ryleigh and Braeden with the Easter Bunny at the Eggstravaganza...circa... end of April

Ryleigh turned 4 at the end of April... here she is blowing out her candle for her family party...During her Birthday week...we did Birthday themed school projects...

Her Birthday Party theme was Princes and Princesses...so I had the girls make these Shape Castles during the week...

In Tot School Beginnings the kids have been working on textures... here they are making a texture collage... with beads, flower petals (real), cotton, sequins, stickers, etc.... they all did really well gluing!

Braeden painting on some bamboo... more texture work... these bamboo place-mats are from the target dollar spot... he was more interesting in going on the swing-set...

I had the preschool class do some tie dyeing... so much fun... and the shirts came out great!

Ryleigh... modeling the shirt she made and holding up the one that I made for her...

This week we took a field trip to the Bronx Zoo... I feel like the kids were not so thrilled that the paparazzi followed them there...

The 5 monkeys watching the gorillas.... they were a huge hit and definitely Braeden's favorite exhibit....

This week I did Number and Letter assessments with the girls from COAH... they were very helpful in determining where we will start "next year"....

The girls love this MATH MAT... they jumped to numbers and colors...

To see what others did this week check out Tot School at 1+1+1=1; Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations; and the Weekly Wrap-up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.