Lost In Pizzaland: Transportation Week: Thursday!

Transportation Week

Thursday!

Crafts:

Big Box Car: Large corrugated cardboard box, cardboard, paints, construction paper

Cut the bottom from the box. On the top, glue the two long flaps inside the box. To make the spoiler, fold back one of the short flaps and glue it in place.
To make the hood, tape or glue the other short flap to the sides of the car. Cut wheels and other details from cardboard, and glue them on. Paint the car, then add cut-paper details.

Whirlybird: Plastic-foam egg carton, ruler, drinking straw, metal paper fasteners, toothpicks, markers

Cut two cups from the egg carton. Glue them together to form the cockpit. Let dry, then carefully cut a small hole (slightly smaller than the width of a drinking straw) in the middle of both the cockpit's roof and floor.
From the carton's lid, cut the raised peak and then cut a small V-shaped notch in the top of it. Make the notch large enough for a drinking straw. Glue it to the top of the cockpit, lining up the two straw holes.
Cut two 9 1/2-inch strips from the egg carton lid propellers. Glue these in an X shape. Cut a 3-inch piece of straw. Near one end of the straw, cut two small slits across from one another. Insert a metal paper fasteners through the hole in the propellers and into the piece of straw, putting the legs of the metal fastener through the slits you made in the straw and bending them up to secure. Then insert the straw through the holes in the cockpit to put the propellers in place.
Cut a 7-inch tailpiece from the side of the egg carton. Cut a slit in the back of the cockpit and insert the tailpiece. For tail propellers, cut two short strips from the lid, glue them in an X shape, and attach with a metal paper fastener.
To make landing gear, cut two strips from the side of the carton. Cut a toothpick in half, and poke one half into each strip, using a bit of glue. Place a 3/4 inch piece of straw on each toothpick. Using a little glue, stick the ends of the toothpicks into the bottom of the cockpit.
Decorate with markers. You made need to glue a small piece a small piece of clay in the nose of the helicopter to make it balance.

Paper Airplane: Copy paper

Fold the paper in half lengthwise, make a crease, and unfold it.
Holding the paper vertically, fold each top corner in to the center crease, creating two equal-sized triangle flaps.
Fold the right diagonal edge of the plane in to line up with the center crease. Then fold the left diagonal edge in to line up with the same center crease.
Flip the plane over the fold the new right diagonal edge in to line up with the center crease. Then fold the new left diagonal edge in to line up with the center crease. This creates a sturdy nose for your plane.
Flip the plane over, and fold the left edge of the plane over to meet the right (using the original crease from step 1).
There should be three layers of folds on the left side. Pinch the middle fold between your thumb and index finger to create the fuselage of the plane. The other two folds become the wings.

Activities:

Magnet Track: Flexible paper plate, crayons, thin cardboard, glue, small magnets, ice-cream stick

Draw an automobile racetrack on the plate. Make it winding, maze-like road course. Create a scene by drawing in hills, lakes, boulders and other obstacles. Cut out a car from thin cardboard. Decorate it and then glue it to the magnet.
Glue another small magnet to the ice-cream stick. (Be sure to place the two magnets so that they attract, rather than repel, each other.) Hold the stick under the plate and guide your car around the track. Hold "time trials" to improve your speed.

Taxi Driver: Giant cardboard box(taxicab), markers (to draw steering wheel and tires), map, toy phone, walkie-talkie, electronic kitchen timer (taxi meter), poster board, paper, markers to make taxicab signs, cash box with play money and coins, suitcases, briefcase, backpack, shopping bags

Have your child decorate their car(box). Draw on doors. If you want you can cut doors to open and close. Add lights on the front and back.
Draw on a steering wheel and tires. You can also use a paper plate and a metal fastener and attach to box for steering wheel. And cut out wheels out of construction paper and glue them on the sides.
The passengers could be other children or stuffed animals and/or dolls.
Let your child's imagination run wild.

Cars, Boats and Planes: 3 large pieces of cardboard or poster board, construction paper(light blue, white, brown, turquoise), pictures of transportation vehicles, glue, clear self-adhesive paper(optional)

In advance, prepare boards representing air, land, and water settings for children to use in sorting transportation vehicles by air, land, and water. To make the air setting cover a piece of cardboard with light blue paper and cut clouds out of white paper and glue on the board. To make the land setting cover a piece of cardboard with brown paper. To make the water setting cover a piece of cardboard with turquoise paper.
Cut pictures of air, land and water transportation vehicles and mount on poster board. For durability laminate or cover with clear self-adhsive paper.
Tell the children to choose a picture and place it on the board where it belongs--air, land, or water.
The vehicles can be attached with loops of masking tape on the appropriate board for a permanent display or the vehicles can be placed on the board (not attached) for a sorting game.

Building Fun: Legos, vehicles

Have your child build buildings, stores, ramps and such with legos.
Then, they can pretend to drive their cars through a nice town.

Train-tracks: Snow

Shuffle your feet through the snow making train tracks. This is fun when there is a couple people making tracks or forming a train. Make sure to make train sounds as you do this.

Snacks:

Trains:

Soda or Club Crackers
Peanut Butter Cheerios
Various snacks (cheese, pretzel sticks. carrots, goldfish crackers. marshmallows, etc.
Use the cracker to make the train cars, the cheerios for the wheels, and the other items for the cargo for the train. For example: They could have one cracker and have a flat car and stack it full of pretzel sticks for logs. Anything works we even had flying trains.

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Education:

Letters/Words:

Word Of The Day: Index card, pen

Was
Have your child make sentences up using their new word. Can they combine them with their other words they have learned.
Use the flash cards and see how many words they remember.
Test your child throughout the day during bath-time, in the car, etc.

Numbers:

Number Train: 5 rectangles (5" x 9") in a variety of colors, 10 black circles, 10 strings, contact paper, hole puncher

Write the numerals 1 to 5 on the rectangles. Glue two black circles on the bottom on each rectangle for the wheels of the train car. You can laminate the train cars before attaching the strings.
Each child wears the rectangle as a necklace.
Now have the child line up in the right order. Now have them say, "We are the number train. Watch us say our number name." Have each child say their number in the right order. Each one sounds off their number. Then, they all can say, "We are the number train. We all know our number name."

Counting With Your Ears: 10 pennies, glass jar or aluminum can

Show your child the pennies and count the pennies by lining them up and counting them.
Tell your child they will learn to count them with their ears.
Ask the children to be very quiet as your drop the pennies one at a time into the jar or can. Ask your child to count the "plink!" sound as each penny drops and tell your child that is how they can count with their ears.

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