Clever Sprouts Preschool: Thanksgiving

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Friday, February 5, 2010

T is for Turkey

On November 17th we talked about the letter T! We started off by making thankful turkeys out of toilet paper tubes.

I had them come up with one thing they were thankful for to write on a tail feather and they each said "friends". I let them fill out the other feathers at home.

We then decorated little teepees after studying some Native American hieroglyphics. The kids did some great designs of their own!

For snack, we made turkeys out of Oreos, mini peanut butter cups, candy corn & Whoppers.

We had some problems with the cookie halves coming apart, but the kids sure loved them!

We mosaic tiled some paper plates to make turtles,

but the kids tired of it quickly and they didn't end up with very covered shells :)

Our snack took a little too much time, so just Christian & Sierra were left to do the last craft which was a giant toothbrush. It took some major cutting skill to make the bristles!

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Because of technical difficulties (I dropped my camera on the tile floor during preschool) and the business of the holidays, I haven't posted in quite a while! Getting back into the swing of things and now I want to post all the cute pics I have of the kids.

November 10th the theme was F is for Flag (in honor of Veteran's Day). We started out by coloring fruit,

to put in felt conucopias.

We then fingerpainted flags.

On the top they say, "For those who Fought and those who continue to Fight For our Freedom: A Fingerpainted Flag and a promise to never Forget." I have the pdf available here for download, if anyone's interested. They came out so cute!

They colored visuals to go with the story of the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, found here.

For snack, we made fruit pizzas!

Just a sugar cookie, cream cheese frosting, and fruit in any pattern they felt like. I think this is my favorite snack!

I read the Rainbow Fish book and then they added fish scales (price dot stickers and a few sparkly circles cut from rainbow prizm sticker paper) to this template.

And lastly, fun turkey finger puppets with feathers.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

H is for Horse

On November 3rd we studied the letter H. I don't know why, but I almost totally forgot to take pictures this week! I took some of snack time and of Christian's completed projects, but that's about it. Here's a rundown of some of the things we did:

They heard as I read "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb" and we used our hands to pat the rhythym on our laps of the "dum ditty dum"s.

I also read "Is There Really a Human Race." The kids didn't seem so impressed, but I love this book!

For snack we had heart cookies (that I made out of leftover Pillsbury Halloween cat cookie dough) and hot chocolate.

They glued hair on clothespin horses,

made hungry hippo puppets,

and learned the nursery rhyme "Hickory, dickory, dock". They colored this printable I made to act out the rhyme. You can download a copy here.

My favorite thing was the handprint turkeys. So cute!

They also colored these Humpty Dumpty puppets and glued hats on them.

I promise to do better with my camera next time!

Friday, November 6, 2009

T is for Turkey and Tree

Two different "T" days coming up for us in the next month, so I have both Thanksgiving and Christmas themes going on in this post. Images are linked.

thankful turkey toilet paper tube craft

Crafts for All Seasons

handprint tree
It's a Creative World (scroll down the page)

Oreo turkey
flickr

paper plate tamborine
First Palette

animal train craft

First Palette

teepee treats

Family Fun

prewriting practice with turtles

Confessions of a Homeschooler

felt Christmas tree

All Kids Network

tongue depressor turkey

Kaboose

totem pole

Sprite's Craft Corner

teaching how to tell time

fall tree M&M game

triangle Santa

mosaic turtle

tissue paper angels

Homeschooled Year
(also check out this blog post to read about the Christmas pooping log tradition--who knew?)

letter recognition game

Dresses 'n Messes

I'm thinking about doing this with turkey die cuts instead of pumpkins (to go along with the T theme) and mark some of them "Gobble!" instead of "Boo!"

taco cookies