Happy Birthday Dr. Suess!!

March 2nd is Dr. Suess's birthday!  It makes for a fun week at preschool!  I just wanted to share some great sights, full of great Dr. Suess themed ideas!

Click on the above link to visit ObSEUSSed!  This girl defiently loves her Cat in The Hat!

Visit Oopsey Daisy for a ton of fun party ideas and activities.  These could easily be adapted to a classroom setting.  She also has a fun Dr. Suess Matching game available for a free download!



Fun in First Grade has a bunch of ideas!  These are geared to twoards 1st grad and above, but I was able to get some inspiration and find a few ideas that I could make work for my kiddo's.

2 Teaching Mommies has this huge unit full of fun ideas!

Counting and pattern cards by Our Little Monkeys.

Visit A to Z teacher stuff for loads of ideas. 

Available for all grade levels.

Early moments has some great coloring pages.

Erica Bohrer's First Grade has a great page full of links.

One Extra Degree, has some fun links & ideas!

Oh and visit Seussville. 

Lot's of goodies available here!

If you know of other sights, please share! 

Yummy or Yucky

This is perhaps my favorite day of preschool!

We provide the kids a variety of food and let them taste

it and see if it's yummy or yucky!

This guy gave us some great faces!

Apparently limes are yucky!

This girlie loved everything we gave her.

Every single thing, she did last year to.

He was our only spitter!  It was the cooking chocolate.

We just had a piece of paper that we divided in to two columns.  One side said Yummy and the other said Yucky.  Add some cute clip art and wala, cute, cute take home sheet. I wish I had a scanner, I would scan it for you, but I don't, sorry.  Then we had pictures of the foods that we gave to the kids.  They were color copies that we had pre-cut so that they could just glue them on. 

This is a huge project. It takes a lot of prep on the teachers part and it is time consuming the day of, but so worth it!

Here is the foods that we had for them to try:

Tootsie rolls, marshmallows, pretzel, peanut butter and cheese crackers, salt and vinegar chips, regular potato chips, popcorn, sugar cubes, lemons, limes, bitter chocolate, goldfish, jelly beans, popcorn, pickles, apples, oranges, almonds, Hershey's bar, red licorice and back licorice.  The possibilities are of course endless, but have fun with it.  It is one of the funnest days. 

Popcorn Popping

 We have been working on 5 senses.  It's my very favorite week of the year!  That and superhero week!  I thought I would share this first, because you could use it with P week or with 5 senses. 

Popcorn is great to use during 5 senses week because you can use all 5 senses to experience popcorn.  I brought an air popper into the class and had the kids help me make the popcorn.  You can hear it bouncing around in the popper, you can smell it, you can see it, you can touch it and the best part - you can taste it!

We used plain popcorn to apply to our "apricot" tree's.  I got the template off of Scholastic. You need to have a membership to print from that sight, but it's totally worth getting one if you teach or home school.
We use our painter's pallet to put a little white glue in.  Then we give the kids a q-tip to spread the glue.  We do this weekly in preschool and the kids love it.

Q is for Quilt

I don't have a reference for the page that we used.  It came from a book, but it was originally used to make patters.  I just took some fabric, cut it up and had the kids made quilts.  We just used white glue to adhere it to the page.

Can't get blogger to take this picrue if it's not flipped this way :(, but super easy and super cute! You can find the printable, here.

You can find this page, here.  We also did a cute little emergent reader, which can be found here.

Q is for Queen

P is for Pirate Page

O is for Owl

So cute!  We decided that using the small O's on the eye's would be our O's on the page.

P is for Pirate

How cute is she?  To get the template go to Cottage Industrialist, this page is full of fun pirate printables!  Perfect for birthday parties or preschool pirate days! 

We also had a treasure hunt, which we had to modify to be indoors thanks to 60 mph winds!  It was fun though, the kids loved it.  We also made cute pirates out of the letter P, but that's a post for another day!

N is for......

I am so glad Shelley has a cricuit.  It makes life so much easier!  We used floral grass for the nest and the kids just glued it and the bird to the letter N. 

Super easy and super cute!

P is for Penguin

The kids loved this! Simply glue goldfish onto the penguins bellies!  I got the template from Lakeshore learning and blew it up to the size we needed.

Valentine's Headbands

This is seriously the easiest craft ever. It is great to do for school party's or just because. We did these with my Kindergartner's class 2 years ago and have done it every year since.

Grab some poster board and cut headbands. Make sure you cut it the long way, or you might end up with to short of headbands. Especially if your kiddo has a big head, which mine does!! That was a lesson I learned the hard way.

Let the kiddo's decorate them any way they want. You can have them color them, glue glitter to them, or we used foam letter stickers to spell out their names. Glue the headbands together. Twist your pipe cleaners around a pen, attach 2 foam hearts or flowers back to back. Stapel the pipe cleaners to the inside of the headband. And now you have  cute Valentine Day headbands.

***This is also a repost from last year.  We will also be making these for our preschool party.  We are using fun cupcake picks, that we found at the dollar store.  We popped the glittery styrofoam hearts off the the sticks and hot glued them and then stuck them on a pipe cleaner.  Super cute!!

Valentine's Day Shades

This was not as easy as I thought it would be. I'd say at least a 1st grade level. Not any younger than that or you will be cutting out every single pair. The older kids did fine, it was the younger one's who had me wishing I hadn't attempted it. Although, I had 3 additional kids. So in a small group this would probably not be to bad. This is a great idea for classroom parties. You'll want to print the template on card stock. The only thing I had to pick up was the red cellophane. And I got that at the dollar store. Cheap, Easy and Fun!!

I got the template for these glasses, here. They also have templates for rounded glasses and star glasses, which would be fun to make and decorate for any occasion. the stars would be awesome for the 4th of July!

***This is a repost from last year.  We are using these in preschool for our party next week.  However, I had a YW, who was looking for service hours and she cut out all 20 pairs!  Megan, I LOVE YOU!!  The kids are going to love them!

O for Octopus

 The kids loved this!  Some of them were so meticulous about putting the cheerios on and others, well they are three!!!  You can find this at Making Learning Fun.

This cute little octopus windsock is great for practicing cutting skills.  You can find it First School.

O is for Ocean...

This was a really fun craft to do.  Originally I was going to have the kids paint a plate blue, but I found these buried in our supplies.  I had the kids pick out stickers and put those on first.  I did draw a line on the plate to show them the ocean verses the sand.  To make the sand I added 3 parts shaving cream to 1 part white glue and then I added real sand and just kept adding it until I got the consistency that I wanted.  It was really thick, but it dried up nice and puffy. Add a few sea shells and you have a nice little beach picture to hang on your wall!

Toilet Paper Roll Painting

 This past week we worked on letter O, circles and ovals.  We let the kids make these fun pictures.

 Pretty self-explanatory.  Dip in paint and stamp on the paper.

The kids loved it.  Some of them got really into it.  It was a lot of fun.  It's amazing how the simiple things are the funnest!

Love in a perfect world

This. Is. The. Coolest. Thing. EVER!!!!!!

The Love is made out of sugar cookies!

Oh,how I wish that I had the time to do this. 

This is what love would look like in my perfect world.

Sweet and tasty, and full sugar and everything nice!

Check it out here.

Just had to share because I think this is so cool!!

M is for....

Monster and Mustache!!!  I totally didn't post this little guy when I was talking about M last week!  Oh well, here you go.  This is what we had the kids make for our alphabet book.  Super easy.  Shelley cut them with the cricuit and then we had the kids glue the letter M and the mustache on. 

N is for Necktie

 So cute!  I wish I could put pictures up of all of our kids wearing them.  They turned out great.  I got the template here.  I cut the tie pieces out themselves and blew them up.  The card it cute, but 13 kids and a few who are not the greatest cutter, it just didnt' work for our group.  We let them pick out stickers to decorate with.  It was fun to see who chose what and even funner were the kids who went with a mixed theme.  Fruit salad and footballs.........  AWESOME!!

There is my Pip wearing her ballet tie.  We also used this writing sheet to go with it.

I Found My Valenties

I have found my Valentines!  Aren't these darling.  Found them at One Charming Party! Click on the picture above to be taken to the direct link.  They are doing posts for the next few day's with Valentine's Party ideas!  Such cute ideas!

N is for Noodle

So fun!  Lot's of white glue is needed to make these stick!  You can get the template, here.

2011 Young Womens Theme Block

Even though it's been months since I was released from Young Women's I still miss it.  I got asked to help out with a craft project for New Beginnings and jumped at the chance.  These were pretty easy to make.  In fact, we had the girls make them.  We had them precut and sanded for them. I got the cute subway art from Melinda over at Under My Umbrella. She is seriously talented!!

We used 2x6 boards and cut them into 6 inch blocks.  We had the girls paint the entire block black.  Then we took a piece of scrapbook paper and modgepodged it onto the board. Then we took the subway art and attached it with modge podge to the front of the block.  Add another coat of modge podge, tie a cute bow and you have a way cute reminder of the theme for the year!

I had a blast coming up with them.  I tried making them in different sizes, but this was the cutest.  It was a great project to be involved in.  I came up with the idea and my friend and her hubby did all the gathering, cutting and sanding!  I got to go and help the girls make them!  It was perfect!

Valentine's Day Printables

I have been looking back at past Valentine's day posts, and we've got some good stuff!! I had completely forgot about some of these!  The glasses are so cute! We may have to do that for preschool.

Here are a few other fun ideas I've seen on the web this year.  And this is just a sampling, there may be more to come!

Cute sandwhich baggie toppers.

Found at Living Locurto.

Cute, cute! You can see this one at Elle's Studio.

Family Fun, never fails to inspire!

Marshmallow Sort

 Shelley came up with this idea.  We did a Marshmallow sort for the kids.  Big and small

They loved it!  I had the thought afterwards that next time we will add in the campfire marshmallows, you know the huge ones that you can find occasionally.  Then we could do small, bigger and biggest. 

This cost us $2.00 to do with the whole group. What a fun idea!

Go Away Big Green Monster

We did the letter m last week in preschool.  We had one day that was Monster themed.  It was so much fun.  We read the book, Go Away Big Green Monster. The kids loved it.  Infact, we read it everyday last week because they begged us to. 

We got some green plate and put out a random assortment of craft supplies.  We told the kids that they could make their big green monster, any way that they wanted.  It was fun to see what each child came up with and how unique they all were. 

L is for....

Lion!

And Lion was hard to make!  We defiently will not be doing this one next year!  Lot's of little tiny pieces to cut out.  

K is for

KING!!

Hello out there........

I seem to have lost my blogging motivation.  I don 't know why or where it's gone.  It seems like is extremely busy these days and I don't even have time to blog on my family blog, let alone my hobby blog.  It's sad, really that life gets that way.

I haven't done much lately in crafting, but I do have some great preschool ideas floating around on my computer that I need to share.  And okay, so I have done a few crafts, but here is the thing about blogging.  I always feel like it's already been done, or I feel like I can't compete.  Yeah, I'm having a pity party.  It happens.

I don't have school tomorrow, so I am going to try and get some posts up and scheduled to roll out.  I don't think that I will be posting as much as I was before. It's to hard.  I don't know how the ladies who are the rock stars of the blog world do it!  I am certainly not able to.  So bare with me and hopefully you will see some new posts soon.

Thanks for sticking with me. 

New Years Eve Idea for kids

An hour, by hour countdown for the kiddo's. So much fun! I think we will be doing this. We were planning on renting some movies and hanging at home, but I think this would be so much fun for my kids. The idea came from The Dating Diva's. You can see this post, by clicking here.

This is a super cute idea!  Make a banner and party hat's that the kids can decorate and make themselves.  Super cute!  Gives them something to do on New Years Day! I found this at Toads Treasures. I already downloaded mine and we are going to start working on them a little later this week. This was a post from last year, but I am still making it, you just neet to trace an extra 1 to add on.

And if your visiting, Toads Treasures, take the time to look around.  She has some great ideas!! I spent quite a bit of time on her blog today and now she's in my favorites . Talented lady!!