Fro Yo

What You'll Need:
Yogurt
Cookie Sheet
Wax Paper
Spoon

Delicious Ideas! Pinterest sparked my snack time ideas. These little frozen yogurt chips are ALWAYS a crowd pleaser.

Layout out wax paper on a cookie sheet and let little hands dab yogurt on. We've made swirls, all sizes, and all shapes.

Relocate into the freezer overnight, and peel off and enjoy.

Tip: I am usually able to place these into a small cup for snack time, and they are gone before melting worries can even start!

Catching The Sun

What You'll Need:

Sunlight

Shadow Makers

A day at the park, or in your backyard can have endless possibilities between the relationship with your kids and the sun.

Learning about the direction the sun rises, sets and how it's actually a star is fascinating to little minds.

But, best of all, it's a natural entertainer as kids move.

Great Ideas:

• Grab some chalk and trace outlines of your shadow makers and let them decorate themselves.
• Discuss the difference of positive and negative space.
• Draw LINE around the shadows and create PATTERNS inside each shadow with SYMBOLS to represent themselves.

Standards:
25.A.1d  Visual Arts: Identify the elements of line, shape, space, color and texture; the principles of repetition and pattern; and the expressive qualities of mood, emotion and pictorial representation.

S'more Letters Please

What You'll Need:

Toothpicks

Marshmallows

Lots of Letters in Mind 

Each week we sound out, learn and practice a new letter. Each time we embark on our letter adventure, I try to create a new kinesthetic approach to create the letters.

This week, being close to Easter, we included the marshmallow approach.

Food for thought is always a great combo to create with and motivate with.

After each letter we made, we were able to enjoy a few mallows.

Although a few disappeared along the way.

What can this be used for:

Create multimodal methods to learn basic letter forms.

Use basic elements of art to create visual representation of letter forms.

Standards:

Visual Arts

25.B.2  Understand how elements and prin­ciples combine within an art form to express ideas.