Father's Day

I saw this cute super hero craft on

pinterest. I knew as soon as I saw it, it would

be perfect for the front of our fathers day cards

we would be making in preschool this week. 

The kids used dot painters to paint the large

craft sticks. Dot painters can be found at amazon.com.
They are a great way to paint without a lot of mess.The
kids had such fun choosing what colors to use for their super dad.
We had so many colorful super hero's! The capes were
 glued onto the back of the craft stick. We then glued him down
onto the front of the card, added a mask and googly eyes. I had
made copies of  "Dad you're my super hero!" to add to the front
of the card. For the inside of the card we did a father's day

questionnaire. I love to ask the questions and hear the
 kids fill in the blanks. Their answers are so cute.
We had dad's who were 100 feet tall, and who
were very good at watching baseball.
You can google search "fathers day questionnaire" to
find one to print.  I reduced the size of my
 questionnaire to 80% and cut down 12x18" pieces
of construction paper to fit the questionnaire.
What fun the kids had making
crafts for dad!
Supplies needed
large craft sticks
dot painters (or tempera paint & brushes)
 pre-cut capes and masks
googly eyes
Dad you're my super hero print out
fathers day questionnaire print out
white glue

Painting with blocks

Today our preschool lesson was  Joshua and  the

 battle of Jericho.The kids  picked blocks from the 

block center to add to a plate of paint for building

the wall around Jericho. It was fun to see the how

each block would look on their paper. They 

enjoyed the activity so much that we had lots of 

pictures of Jericho's wall! Kids and paint go together! 

I had also google searched a coloring page 

of Joshua, printed it and cut it out to 

add to their art work. Once they were done

painting their walls I had them use dot 

painters to paint Joshua. They glued him onto 

the picture once it had dried. Dot painters are

a great addition to your art center. You can find 

them on Amazon as well as at Micheals. They
are fun for all ages and not very messy!
Supplies needed

a cut out picture of Joshua
blocks
paint & paper plates
white construction paper

dot painters

Fun with shapes.

It was all about shapes today at preschool.

For art I traced 3 shapes onto white construction paper. 

 Carefully using an xacto knife and small 

scissors I cut the shapes out. To make our

project a bit more interesting and fun for kids I 

put a piece of double sided tape on 

the corners of the white paper and stuck it

on top of  a piece of black construction

paper. I had found some Sargent art brand of 

 florescent  tempera paint at Walmart.

It was a great price and a great quality

of paint. The kids had fun with the bight colors. 

I encouraged them to paint the entire piece of paper. 

Some of the kids carefully painted the shapes, then painted 

around the shapes. Other kids just busily painted the entire 

paper watching  the colors blend into each other. 

They were so excited when  I lifted the white paper and 

they saw the black paper with bright shapes.

Supplies needed

white construction paper

black construction paper

shape templates to trace

tempera paint

paint pots & brushes

Food kids

This week in preschool is all about food. We had a 

great time gluing food pictures onto pre-cut kids 

and making a healthy snack. My preschoolers are 

young, and not ready to cut pictures out

 so I cut out lots of food pictures for them. They

enjoyed  gluing their favorite food pictures

onto the kid cutouts. We talked  about healthy foods

and foods that are not so healthy as

 they glued their pictures.

 For their healthy snack I topped an apple ring with 

peanut butter  and let them chose toppings to 

sprinkle on. There was granola, yogurt raisins,

 chocolate chips, cranraisins and nuts to chose from.

Kids eat so much better when they 

get to help make their food. 

Supplies needed

kids cutouts

pictures of food from magazines

glue sticks

wiggly glues -optional

Snack supplies

apples cut into rings

peanut butter

assorted toppings

 

Puffy paint ice cream

We are learning about summer this week at Homespun Daycare. 

What better craft to do on a hot Phoenix day 

 than an ice cream craft! I started out by 

making puffy paint. Just add equal parts of shaving cream

and white glue to a bowl and stir. I let each child 

pick a color they would like for the puffy paint. I use Wilton

food color paste.They are such bright colors and take just a 

tiny bit of color no matter what I am coloring.

I had made ahead an ice cream cone and added circles

 for the scoops of ice cream. (I use card stock for this project)

I also made ahead a bowl for ice cream. My kids

 love puffy paint so I knew they would want to make more

 that one ice cream picture. I put a couple blobs of puffy paint 

on their paper and gave them wooded craft spoons to spread the

 paint with. They loved swirling the spoons around in the thick

 paint, and watching the colors mix. They have just as much 

fun seeing the pictures after they have dried.The 

paint dries puffy and feels smooth. Some of the 

kids had such fun I put out sheets of card stock

and they made their own creations with the puffy paint.

Supplies needed

Shaving cream

white glue

bowls for mixing

 plastic or wooden spoons 

food coloring

  pre made ice cream cone pictures

or just card stock paper for painting on.

homespun kids: Swatting fly's!We had a beautiful May here in ph...

homespun kids:
Swatting fly's!
We had a beautiful May here in ph...: Swatting fly's! We had a beautiful May here in phoenix, but June is here and so are the triple digits! So with summer upon us  ...

Swatting fly's!
We had a beautiful May here in phoenix, but June
is here and so are the triple digits! So with summer upon us
 I decided to do a summer theme this week in
preschool. The kids have been complaining
about the fly's outside bugging them.  Unfortunately our Phoenix heat
brings fly's! I decided it  would be fun to swat fly's today at the art table. First
 I Googled "fly templates to print"and made copies of fly's and cut them out.
 Then the kids glued the fly's onto the easel paper. I poured paint onto paper plates
and dipped the flyswatters in the paint and let the kids swat their fly's.
They had such fun swatting fly's! It got a bit messy, they loved swatting  those
fly's hard! Be sure to use a small amount of paint on
the flyswatters. The fly's show up  best with light colors of paint.
Supplies needed
fly pictures or stickers or hand draw fly's on the paper
easel paper or large sheets of paper
paper plates and washable paint
flyswatters ( I found mine at the Dollar Tree)