Sponge Painted Christmas Trees

In preparation for our Christmas Program coming up, we have been talking this month about the Symbols of Christmas. Today's symbol was the Christmas Tree and we discussed how it's a symbol of everlasting life because it's needles point upwards and it stays green all the time. Then for our art project the kids got to decorate their own Christmas Tree using a sponge painting technique. It was a fun activity and the kids were very creative with their pictures. I always love to see their interpretation of things.

We are Thankful!

We celebrated Thanksgiving a little early at Preschool by having a Pilgrims Thanksgiving Feast Complete with things Pilgrims may have actually eaten like Turkey, Grapes, and Carrots. Apparentally they would not have had potatoes or rolls! We attempted to make clothes like the pilgrims wore however I'm not sure because of the pattern I chose that anyone would be able to tell what we were going for here and the poor kids were dying to take their "Pilgrim Collars" off before eating, but they were good sports and at least let me take a picture of them first! Then at the end of the day we made a thankful tree using our hand cut outs with the things we were thankful for written on them.

Dinosaur Dig!

While studying Dinosaurs in November we talked about Palentologists and Archeologists so we pretended that we were digging for Dinosaur bones today. Each child had their own bowl of rice with some (paper) dinosaur bones in them and they used paint brushes to uncover/dig for the bones because we discussed how the bones are so old that they are fragile sometimes and how the paint brush is soft and how Archeologists use brushes rather then shovels to uncover the bones since it's more gentle. The kids were very excited about finding the bones. And then once they had found all 4 bones they had to reconstruct the dinosaur on paper. We got a few interesting variations and I loved the dinosaur faces the kids were trying to make while I took their picture.