Sensory!

I seldom do messy sensory with my class, but these are sensory that really worked with my children: (always cover your table with plastic disposable table cloth -- it's available in the supermarket)

1. Pour tempera paint of different colours on the table and add shaving foam on it. Let the children feel free to play on it, whichever way they want to. Lay newspaper on the floor and let them print their hands on it (maybe foot too!)

2. Rice, water and coloured sand for scooping activity. They just love it!

3. Flour and water with food colouring -- let them make the dough!

4. Sponge and coloured water -- let them squeeze the water out the sponge!

5. Shaving foam with styrofoam balls -- add some dishsoap to make it slippery, let them try to move it to bowls and plates.

6. The best I did during Easter celebration -- roll hard boiled eggs on a table with glitter and paint. They made a mess, alright; but they had a great time!

Back to school!

Easter holidays are almost over! Going to Oz for holiday was really a great idea, I was really relaxed and recharged, and now ready to teach again! I never realise I will miss teaching the children since I was so stressed and tired before the holidays. Colours and Shapes theme is almost over so I have more to post starting May since we will be very busy with the favorite theme of everybody -- ON THE FARM! Aside from different animal crafts that under 3s can make, I will be also sharing the output of what we are going to do during father's day, I am collecting stones from my children so they can make a stone paper weight for daddy. On father's day, the children are going to paint the stones with daddy doing the finishing touch - daddy will write the word DAD on the big stone, and ME on the small stone. That makes our "daddy and me" paperweight. It is a great bonding idea and the craft is very useful as well, not to mention the memories that it will bring when looking at it in the future. For those who prefer big rocks, the child will paint on it and daddy will write DAD ROCKS! I am so excited just thinking about it.

This art idea is courtesy of http://crafts.kaboose.com/ -- this is one of my favorite sites for crafts since most of their ideas are really cool and under 3's can do it too!

Easter with two year olds

My under 3's class had a great Easter celebration. Aside from the Easter egg hunt, they also made their own baskets, Easter card and of course, their Easter bonnets. ;-)