I made these with my daughter's playgroup last week and the kids and Mommies all loved them. It did take parent involvement though. I stapled the first ring of handprints to the plate and let the kids glue the rest. I also cut out a stem and stapled it on and let the kids glue on a couple leaves I had cut out. This is not a hard craft. We did it in the park.
As a part of this meet up we also read the book "A Seed Grows" and planted seeds in a cheap plastic planter that the kids had decorated with peel and stick foam shapes of flowers.
Kate, that is a great craft and I love the enchanted learning website, I used it alot when I was teaching preschool. Perpetualpreschool.com is also a great site with all kinds of theme arts,crafts,songs and such
Thanks Kyleen, I will check that one out. I have a lot of these kind of sites book marked. I was a preschool teacher long ago... before I was a Mom. Now all my lessons I plan are for my daughter's playgroup and they LOVE it!!!
LOL Kate, it was the same with me. I taught Pre-K for three years (well before children were even thought of) and I saved all of my lesson plans, from the ABC to songs to teach manners to community helpers and I love that I can now pull those out and adapt them to my child. It is a wonderful thing to be able to share this with my own son and his friends.
I would like to know if you could give me any ideas for my grandpa's birthday? He has dementia and is in the second stage of it. We don't see him very often but my boys want to send him somthing..thanks Rebee
I have a craft that my boys made for their grandma. It is so easy that even a young child would love it.
You take construction paper of your childs choosing, let them trace their hand on it, cut it out, and tape the sides together to form a tube. Take each finger and fold down to look like petals on a flower. Take a green straw and stick it through the tube tape the bottom of the flower with green tape(floweral tape can be found at the $ store). Your "hand" made lillies are ready for a vase. A pop bottle with two layers of contact paper works great...Happy crafting..Rebee
