There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: Monday!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week:

Monday

Crafts:

• Spring Basket: Cardboard, large paper grocery bag, five 6" x 9" sheets of white construction paper, assorted construction paper, scissors, stapler, glue

1. To make the basket, cut off the top half of the bag set that part aside to use later for the handle.
2. Fold down the top edge of the bag about 1 1/2 inches; then fold it down again.
3. To make a handle, cut the top portion of the bag open and cut a long three-inch-wide strip from it. Fold and glue the strip in thirds(lengthwise) and then in half.
4. When the glue is dry, staple the handle to the bag.
5. To make a fence, make an outline of how you want your picket fence on a piece of cardboard, use this as a tracer.  Fold each sheet of white paper in half twice and outline the tracer; then cut it out.  Do not cut the folded edges.
6. Unfold the fence cutouts; then glue them around the basket. Trim off any excess paper.
7. Cut out stems, leaves, and flowers from construction paper.  Then glue the cutouts to the basket, gluing some stems behind the fence and some in front of it.  
8. If desired, line the basket with shredded paper or Easter grass.

• Marbleized Paper Egg: Large cake pan, water, table knife, colored chalk, pastel construction paper

1. Pour several inches of water into a large cake pan.
2. Using a table knife, scrape some colored chalk over the pan, letting the powder fall into the water.
3. Next, lay a piece of pastel construction paper on the water so it floats.  
4. Quickly pull it out of the water by lifting a corner.  Notice how the chalk has stuck to the paper in colorful patterns!
5. Cut a large egg shape from the paper.  
6. Rinse out pan so it can be used again.

• Bunny Ears Headband: Construction paper, glue

1. Draw and cut out a pair of bunny ears from construction paper.
2. Paste them to a headband made from a strip of paper cut to fit around your child's head.

Activities:

• Edible Bird Nests: Pictures of birds and their nests, stove, mixing spoon, 6-ounce package of chocolate chips, 3-ounce can of chow mein noodles, paper plates, double boiler, oven mitt, 6-ounce package of butterscotch pieces, 1 bag of miniature marshmallows

1. Show your child pictures of birds and their nests.
2. In a double boiler over low heat, melt the chocolate and butterscotch pieces.  Stir in noodles and mix well.  
3. When warm, but not hot, drop three tablespoon portions onto each child's plate.
4. Show your child how to mold the mixture into nest shapes, making a hollow in the center of each nest.
5. When cool the children can then drop three or four miniature marshmallows into the hollow to represent eggs.
6. Allow the nests to become firm before eating the nest for the snack.

• Detecting the Hard-Boiled Egg: 2 raw eggs, 1 hardboiled egg

1. Spin each egg.  Note what happens.  Then touch each egg lightly while it is spinning.
2. Two of the eggs wobble, but one spins.  The spinner is the hard-boiled egg.  When you touch the spinning hard-boiled egg lightly, it stops spinning completely.  The raw eggs move again after you have tried to stop them.
3. The loose yolks and whites in the raw eggs revolve slowly because of inertia, the tendency of an object to continue at rest or in motion.  This causes the raw eggs to wobble and to continue to move even after you tried to stop them.  The solid white and yolk cause the hard-boiled egg to respond more quickly.  

• Great site for learning about chickens, music, worksheets, activities  at Kiddy House

Music/Rhyme:

• Cardboard Tube Blow Horn: Empty cardboard paper towel tube, waxed paper, rubber band, hole puncher

1. Cover one end of an empty cardboard paper towel tube with a piece of waxed paper, holding the paper in place with a rubber band.
2. Poke five small holes in a row along the side of the tube.
3. Hum or blow into the open end of the tube while putting your fingers over the holes.

• Do the Chicken Dance with your child
• Little Hen Rhyme at http://www.rhymes.org.uk/little_hen.htm
• Egg Songs and More at Child Fun Website

Education:

Letters/Words

• Word Of The Day: Index card, pen

1. Had
2. Make sentences with the new word.  For example:  I had a bowl of soup.   I had lots of fun today.

• Shopping For Words: Index cards, black marker, tape, white paper

1. Take all the words your child knows and write each one of them on an index cards.
2. Tape the index cards up around the house.
3. Write each of the words on a piece of white paper, this will be their shopping word list.
4. Hand your child their list and have them shop around the house for their words.  

Numbers

• Great website for printable number activities and crafts at First School  

Books:

• Their Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick! by Lucille Colandro
• Horton Hatches The Egg by Dr. Seuss

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: Monday!