Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!! Here are some of the projects I've done with my children to help celebrate and decorate our room for St. Patrick's Day.
The first picture, you can see is very simple. There are actually two different shamrocks hung on the wall. The giant shamrock was done by allowing the children to free paint a big piece of butcher paper (the big roll paper) and then cutting out a shamrock. Luckily, I have an artist that works in my classroom, however, before she started working in our classroom, we would make an overhead sheet using sharpies and ziploc bag and blew it up on the wall using the overhead projectors. Then they decorated the two little shamrocks. The one they did by free painting with textured paint brushes. The second was done by gluing green sand to decorate the shamrock. I like using sand and other textures with my two year old children because I think it makes their projects more interesting to them.
The second picture was free painted rainbows the children did. This was obviously very simple - they just used the colors of the rainbow to make their own.
The third picture, is an idea for a bulletin board. I got this idea from a previous lead teacher. I think it is adorable. Last year when our classroom used this bulletin board idea, we used "Let Your True Colors Shine Through" for the caption. As you will see when you scroll down, I used this for a project. All we did was trace the children's hands on one piece of construction paper and then stapled the other colors of the rainbow to the back and cut them out!
This fourth picture is a new project for me and I loved it! For St. Patrick's Day, I love when teachers for younger children do a project that shows blue plus yellow equals green. I decided to spice it up a little bit by working in this name exercise. I used masking or painter's tape (preferably painter's tape) and taped their names to the construction paper. I put yellow and blue finer paint on the paper and let them smear it around, then once it dried, simply removed the tape. I like it because it has a rough graffiti type look.
Last but not least is a project idea I got from pintrest. As you can probably see, we painted their hand and each color the different colors of the rainbow and then finished the rainbow. This is very easy but very cute!
I totally recommend pintrest to any teachers, they have great ideas for teachers!!
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Hey Brooke!
ReplyDeleteI loved all the cute St. Patricks day ideas. Check out my blog, I posted a lot of cute stuff from Pinterest,I'm in love with that site. I can't wait to become a teacher so I can actually use all the ideas.
Brooke!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all your wonderful ideas for St.Pattys day! I think it is great that you did your blog all about teaching and ideas:] What great experience for teaching at a daycare! Such cute paintings!
Brooke,
ReplyDeleteI really like that you posted pictures of the activities you do with your classroom! All the little hand prints make the activities so much more personal and adorable!
Brooke,
ReplyDeleteSo many people are talking about things from pinterest! I think it's great that teachers have a place to easily share these kinds of ideas. I love the second to last one you did with painter's tape. They turned out very nicely! Looking forward to seeing more of your ideas!
Pinterest is such a great resource especially for teachers. I already have a ton of ideas saved that I want to try in my own classroom.
ReplyDeleteI loved your blue plus yellow equals green project. I also love how you refer to the students as "my children." Every time I get a new group of students I get pictures of them so that I can go home and show my family "my kids." I have heard a lot of talk about pinterest. I am going to have to check it out when I can find the time.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog!
Tina
I love that you include so much art work in your room! It is great for kids to be able to do the fun educational things like that. I worked for a daycare once and was not very fond of the way it was run. I was in the "Step Up" room where the toddlers went from crawling to walking. It was really fun and I got really attached to a lot of the kids, but the facility was constantly understaffed (which is against the protocol) and I didn't want to be a part of something like that. I'm really glad you are having a better experience than I did!
ReplyDeleteI love all the pictures!! I really love the blue+yellow =green for the wall. A way to tie in some learning for the holidays.
ReplyDeleteI also LOVE Pintrest. I actually made my blog about classroom tips and ideas that I found on Pintrest because I am so obsessed haha. It really does have great resources, though!
Thank you for sharing the great ideas and teacher resources. I love celebrating holidays with my classes and enjoy doing various activities with them. Thanks for the great projects!
ReplyDeleteBrooke,
ReplyDeleteNice job showing how the St. Patrick's Day holiday can be incorporated in the classroom. Nice work!
What fun projects! How cute!!! :)
ReplyDeleteThose are a lot of fun project ideas!
ReplyDeleteI love how you are posting projects that you have actually done in your own classroom! That is a wonderful and interesting idea for your blog :) I can't wait to hear more!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your activities you are doing with your class! I think they are all great ideas :)
ReplyDeleteThe bulletin boards look great!!! The activities looked like the kids enjoyed them!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting your activities! Very interesting ideas! :)
ReplyDeleteI work as a preschool assistant for a 2's & 3's class, so I just might be borrowing some of your ideas :) I think they are very cute. I really like the Blue + yellow = green wall idea and the rainbow finger painting. I look forward to seeing the rest of your posts!
ReplyDeleteReal cute and creative activities! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteBrooke,
ReplyDeleteThese are such cute ideas and Pinterest is addicitve!
Where is your follow button? I would love to follow you!
I am a 1st grade teacher with lots of *freebies*. I would love for you to come visit me when you get the chance. =)
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