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1) Remember May Day Baskets!!!!!
2) Inkblot Butterflies
Give each child a constr. paper butterfly shape. Using eye droppers or Q-tips, blot paint onto the paper in circles or designs. Fold in half and squish. Open up a beautiful butterfly. If they can follow directions well, only have them paint on one side to make a mirror image. Also fold the paper in half before paining to make it easier to fold later. Add antennaes too!
3) Cereal Flowers
Glue all sorts of colored cereals onto heavy paper or tagboard into flower shapes. Add green stems and leaves.
4) Popsicles Treat
1 cup hot water
2 cups lemonade
1 pkg. strawberry jello
freeze a bit, add sticks, freeze completely and enjoy!!
5) Rainy Day Pictures
Draw your favorite outdoor picture or scene. Using Q-tips and blue paint, add raindrops on top of your picture.
6) Sing the Eensy, Weensy Spider... and then make spider web paintings using a marble dipped in black paint and rolled onto paper using a pie tin or a cardboard box. (boxes a easier because they're deeper)**Always use caution with marbles and small children - easy to choke on.**
7)Ladybug Races
Paint 1/2 walnut shells to resemble ladybugs. Place a marble inside the shell. Hold several of them on the raised end of an inclined surface and let go!!!
**Always use caution with marbles**
8)Shape Birdhouse
Cut out a brown square shape and red triangle shape(same width as the square) and a small yellow circle. Discuss colors and shapes before assembling them into a birdhouse.
9)Edible Birdnests
1/4 cup margarine or butter
1 10oz. bag of marshmallows
6 cups rice cereal
Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat. Add marsmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat and add cereal. Stir until well coated. Shape into nests using wax paper. When set, add jelly beans for eggs!
10)Recommended Reading
Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring by Clifton
Belinda's New Spring Hat by Clymer
Happy Day by R. Krauss
Hopper Hunts for Spring by A. Pfister
I'm a Caterpillar by Jean Marzollo
Jack's Garden by H. Cole
Bumblebee, Bumblebee, Do You Know Me? : A Garden Guessing Game
by Anne F. Rockwell
Bugs For Lunch by M. Facklam
My Spring Robin by A. Rockwell
Three Friends Find Spring by Delton
Carrot Seed by Kraus (then each plant a carrot seed in a coffee container and watch grow!)
11)Song
(tune of Goodnight Ladies>
Goodbye winter, Goodbye winter, Goodbye winter, we wish you'd go away!
Goodbye snow, Goodbye slush, Goodbye puddles, we wish you'd go away!
Come back springtime, Come back springtime, Come back springtime, We wish you'd come to stay!
Come back green grass, Come back flowers, Come back birdies, We wish you'd come to stay!
12)Windy Clothesline
Take a long peice of banner paper (or tape sheets together) and draw a clothesline pole on each end with a line drawn between resembling a clothesline. Use colored paper, or wallpaper sample books and have the children cut out articles of clothing to paste on your clothesline. I pre-made patterns of clothes so the children traced, cut and then glued.
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New Added 1999
13) Umbrellas in the Rain submitted by Nancy in WA
Have the kids use blue water color paint on white construction paper. Cover the whole paper blue. (remember it is really watered down blue) Make umbrella tops about 1 1/2 inches from bright colored construction paper(I have these parts cut out already for them) and the shape of a body from the chest down(looking at its side, kinda pear shape) and boots cut out. I use all colors of construction paper for the cute people with umbrellas. For instance a orange umbrella, pink body and blue boots. they them mix and match. Glue the umbrella over the pear shape and put on the boots under the bottom of the pear shape. Glue about 3 umbrella kids onto the watercolored paper and then put dabs of glue with a Q-tip all over and sprinkle that clear sparkling glitter all over it for rain. Really cute.
14)Umbrellas also submitted by Nancy in WA
Make a large umbrella top(no handle). I use the large size construction paper for them. Cut out 2 hightop boots and hook them under the umbrella at the bottom with a brad. Looks like a person holding an umbrella. Color and decorate the umbrella.
15) Caterpillars adapted from Mailbox Magazine spring 99
Give each child a small paper plate to decorate using crayons, paints, markers, office dots, stickers, or anything. Have each child trace both hands on colored constr. paper and cut out. Glue the hands fingers down onto the plate. When displaying these, put them all side by side to form a cute caterpillar. Use a larger paper plate for the head.
16) Pussywillows. Have each child cut out a vase shape out of paper and glue it on another sheet. Have them draw lines with a marker that come out of the vase as stems. Glue puffed wheat cereal onto the stems to make "pussywillows" If possible bring some real ones in for show.
17) adapted from Mailbox Magazine spring 99
Pop bottle Flowers. Gather 3-5 20-oz. plastic soda bottles. Rinse out and dry before starting. Put 3-5 different spring colors of tempera paint in shallow dishes. Let the children dip the soda bottle bottom into the paint and then onto paper. They make beautiful flower prints. To make the center of the flower, use small corks or the soda bottle top dipped in paint. Add stems and leaves by fingerpainting them on with green washable paint.
18) Fingerplay by Carrie Lacher of WA and Mailbox Magazine spring 99
