Spring flowers

Here in Phoenix it's a beautiful first day of spring! 

I decided it would be fun as an introduction to our spring 

theme if we made a garden of colorful flowers.

I set out  assorted colors of paint, small brushes, and small paper plates.

(I taped a stem to the back of each plate).

I also set out pompoms for the kids to glue (tacky glue works best)

 to center of the their flowers.

The flowers came out so cute, full of  bright colors! 

The kids had such fun painting 

 that we ended up with quite a large garden of flowers!

Supplies needed

 washable tempera paints 

paint pots and brushes

small paper plates

green construction paper

pom poms

tacky glue

Vv for Veggie prints

What fun the kids had printing with vegetables today. We first talked about which foods were vegetables and which were not. We played "guess the vegetable" game  where I would describe the vegetable in my  vegetable basket and they would pick which one I was talking about.  We used long sheets of paper and assorted colors of paint for the kids to print with. For less mess and nice prints we took clothes pins and pushed the top of the clothespin  into the vegetables to make handles. They stayed in wonderfully! The cucumbers, bell peppers, and carrots we just cut in half as they are easy for the kids to hold on to. We left the seeds inside the bell pepper halves so the kids could observe them before painting with them. The kids were so creative with their vegetable  prints turning them into beautiful gardens of flowers!

                                 

Supplies needed

   assorted vegetables
washable tempera paints
shallow bowls or paper plates(for the vegetables and paint)
clothes pins for the handles
white paper (I used strips of butcher paper)