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

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick

Friday!

Crafts:

• Candy Bags: Yellow paper, scissors: zigzag and ordinary, glass, sticky tape, stapler, glue, yellow pom pom for head, felt or paper for eyes and beak, chocolate eggs or small gift, net, ribbon

1. Take a square of yellow paper and cut along one edge with zigzag scissors.  Form the basket shape by wrapping the zigzag edge of the paper around the bottom half of a glass placed upside-down on the table.  Tape the seam together and fold the free section of the paper over the bottom of the glass to make the base of the basket. Secure with tape.
2. Cut a small strip of paper to be used for the handle using zigzag scissors and staple into position on each side of the basket.
3. Using ordinary scissors, cut a small fan-shaped piece of paper for a tail (don't forget to cut in the feathers) and two small wings.  Glue the tail to the back of the basket, and the wings to either side, just beneath the handle.
4. Make eyes, a beak, and a tuft of head feathers out of felt or paper and glue them onto the pompom head.  When they are dry, glue the head onto the front of the basket.
5. Buy chocolate-covered eggs or other small gifts.  Wrap them in a small piece of net, tie with bow and place inside your basket.

• Hanging Chickens: Polystyrene egg, wooden skewer, paint, brush, scissors, colored pipe cleaners, glue, elastic, bead

1. Push a wooden skewer into the base of the egg, then paint the egg bright yellow, holding onto the skewer.  Anchor the skewer until the paint has dried.
2. When dry, cut up colored pipe cleaners: two blue bits for the eyes, orange for the beak and comb,  brown and black stripes for the legs and tail.  Push the eyes, beak and comb into position.
3. Thread a bead onto a length of elastic or string, securing it with a knot.  Make a hole in the top center of the egg wit a skewer and glue the bad into it.
4. Push in pipe cleaners for the legs and tail.  

• Milk Carton Basket: School-sized milk carton, construction paper, pipe cleaners, decorations

1. Cut off the top from a school-sized milk carton.  
2. Cover the box with construction paper.
3. Attach a paper or pipe cleaner handle and decorate the basket.

• Eggshell Artwork: Eggshells, glue, paper plates or box lids or egg carton lids or other objects, paint, fine brushes or cotton swabs

1. Crush eggshells with your hands.
2. Use glue to apply the eggshells to paper plates, box lids, egg carton lids, or other objects.
3. Paint the shells lightly, using very fine brushes or cotton swabs.

Activities:

• Eggs-tra Bounce: What Did You Eggs-pect?: 2 whole raw eggs(in shell), glass of water, glass of vinegar

1. Put one egg in a glass of water and let it stand for a full 24 hours.  Place the other egg in the vinegar and let it stand for the same length of time.
2. The egg in the water remains the same, while the egg in the vinegar compound now feels and looks like a rubber ball, and no longer has a shell!  If you drop it a short distance into the sink, it will actually bounce.  Now you know how this experiment got its name.
3. In the vinegar, a chemical change took place in the egg.  The acetic acid(vinegar) reacted with the calcium carbonate of the eggshell.  The change caused the shell to soften and disappear, while the egg in the glass of water did not chemically change.  Chemists would say that the shell of the egg in the vinegar becomes "decalcified." 

• No Bones About It!: Large wide-mouth jar, 1 1/2 cups of vinegar, some clean chicken bones(leg bones work best)

1. Place the vinegar in the jar and put the clean bones in it.  Make certain the bones are completely covered by the vinegar.  Leave the bones to set for two days.
2. The chicken bones are no longer hard, but soft.
3. Bones are chiefly made up of the minerals calcium and phosphorus.  When you soak the chicken bones in vinegar (acetic acid), a chemical change takes place and the mineral (stiffening) matter in them dissolves.  

• The Egg In The Bottle Trick: Boiling water, small-necked bottle like a ketchup bottle or a baby's bottle, pot holder, hard-boiled egg, peeled

1. Pour the boiling water into the bottle.  Hole the bottle with a pot holder and shake the water around in it and then pour it out.  Quickly place the egg over the mouth of the bottle.
2. Although the egg is larger than the opening, the egg drops into the bottle.
3. The hot water steam in the bottle, which forces out some of the air.  As the steam in the bottle cools, it changes into droplets of water and requires less space.  This reduces the amount of air pressure in the bottle, and so the pressure of the outside air pushes the egg inside the bottle.  
4. To remove the egg, hole the bottle upside down, place your mouth on the opening of the bottle, and blow into it for 30 seconds.  The pressure inside will be greater than the pressure outside--and the egg will be forced out.

Snacks:

• Chicken or Chicken Nuggets
• Peeps

Music/Rhymes:

Five Little Carrots:

Five little carrots in a veggie garden

A gopher ate one, I beg your pardon.

Four little carrots in the ground

A gopher came along, took it to his mound.

Three little carrots left in the dirt

Its top was nibbled on, but didn't hurt.

Two little carrots left in the sun

A groundhog came along and left just one.

One lonely carrot all alone

'Till a farmer came along and took it home.  

Education: 

Letters/Words

• Word of the day: 

1. Review words of the week
2. Make sentences with these words
3. How many sentences did your child make.

Numbers

• Playdoh Fun: Playdoh

1. Have your child make numbers with the playdoh.
2. They can also make little balls and then count them and use them as math too.  Like 2 red balls and 3 blue balls = 5 balls

Books:

• The Golden Egg Book by Margaret Wise Brown
• Home For A Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
• An Eggs-traordinary Adventure (Backyardigans) by Golden Books
• Where's The Golden Egg by Dawn Bentley 
• Extra Special Eggs by Golden Books
• Peter Cottontail Is On His Way by Andrea Posner

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

Easter Week: Friday!

Easter Week!

Friday

Crafts:

• Nesting Hen: Yellow, brown, orange construction paper, 6"paper plate, 2 small black pom-poms, 2 or 3 yellow cotton balls or yellow pom poms, brown tempera paint, scissors, glue, fine-tipped black marker

1. Paint the plate brown and let it dry.
2. Cut a big yellow circle.  Fold lightly in half and unfold.  On one half of the circle cut the circle in half.  Then take the cut parts and fold them over each other to make a cone and glue them together.
3. Make a tail and two wings from construction paper, fringe the ends and glue it to the cone.
4. Glue on the pom-pom eyes and an orange construction paper beak.
5. Cut up pieces of brown paper to make the nest and glue the strips on the plate.
6. Glue the cotton balls (baby chicks) or pom poms in the center of the nest.  Add an orange beak to each chick; then use a fine-tipped black marker to dot on little eyes.
7. Set the hen on the nest so that it covers the chicks.

• Bunny Mask: White, pink construction paper, black marker

1. Cut out a heart large enough to cover your face, using white construction paper.
2. Cut out two eyes out the of the mask, so you child can see out it.
3. Make a small round circle out of pink paper, for the nose, and glue it on.
4. Draw on whiskers with a black marker.
5. Draw on a mouth.
6. Cut out ears out of white construction paper. Draw little pink centers of the ears and glue them on.
7. Glue or staple ears onto face.
8. Fasten a paper band across the back so the mask will fit your child's head.

• Stained Glass Cross: Recycled plastic CD case, DecoArt glass stains(black leading, blue, green, pink, purple), ribbon 23" length, pony beads(assorted colors), Tacky glue, white copy paper, tape, scissors, ruler

1. Wash and dry CD case.  Make your own cross or find a picture you like and place a piece of white paper over the picture and draw the pattern onto the paper.  
2. Tape pattern on back of one side of CD case.
3. Use black leading to trace outline and lines on pattern on CD case.  Let dry.
4. Use blue, green, pink, and purple paint to fill in areas on pattern.  Let dry.  Remove pattern from CD case.
5. Measure and cut three 5" ribbon lengths.  Tie knot on end of 5" ribbon lengths.  Thread pony beads onto each ribbon length.  Glue ribbon lengths along bottom edge of CD case.
6. For hanger, measure and cut 8"ribbon length. Glue ribbon ends on either side of CD case.  Let dry.
7. Hang stained glass in window.

• Paper Bag Bunny Basket: 

1. At the open end of a flattened white paper lunch bag, draw some bunny ears along the outside edges.
2. Fluff open the bag.
3. Cut away the spaces between the ears on the sides as well as on the front and back.  Staple the ears together at the top to from a pair of handles.  
4. Flatten the bag again.  On the front side draw a large bunny face.  
5. Then unfold the bag and the basket is ready to use!

Activities:

• Playacting

1. Have your child pretend they are the Easter bunny.  
2. Act out decorating and delivering the eggs to other children.

• An Easter Story: Crayons, white paper, pen

1. Have your child draw an Easter scene.
2. Then have them tell you a story using their drawing.  
3. You can write down their story if you want.

Snacks:

• Jelly beans
• Bunny Marshmallows 

Education:

Letters/Words

• Word of the Day: Practice this week's words with your child

1. How many words can they remember?
2. Do they remember their other words?

Numbers

• Addition Cards: Index cards, sticker dots, black marker

1. On an index card place one dot and write the number 1 on the card.  Make two of them.
2. Do this for numbers 2-9.  Make two of them.
3. For the number 0, don't put any dot and just write the number 0.  Make two of them.
4. Make a + sign and a = sign.
5. On an index card place 10 dots and write the number 10 on the card. Only make one.
6. Do this for number 11-20 too.  Make only one.
7. Now have your child draw two cards from the 1-9 card pile.  Then add a + sign between the two numbers and an = sign after the second card.  Then have them add the two cards together.  Have them count the dots to help them.  
8. How are they are doing?

Music/Rhyme:

Bunny Hop

Tune("If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands!"

If you feel like a bunny go hop-hop (hop twice)

If you feel like a bunny go hop-hop (repeat action)

If you feel like a bunny, and you think it's rather funny,

If you feel like a bunny go hop-hop(repeat action)

If your ears are kind of droopy go flap-flap(child places hands by his ears and flaps them up and down)

If your ears are kind of droopy go flap-flap(repeat action)

If your ears are kind of droopy and you're feeling rather loopy,

If your ears are kind of droopy go flap-flap(repeat action)

If your nose is feeling stuffy shake your head(shake head from side to side)

If your nose is feeling stuffy shake your head(repeat action)

If your nose is feeling stuffy and your fur is rather fluffy,

If your nose if feeling stuffy shake your head(repeat action)

If you like to chase your tail, turn around(turn around in a circle)

If you like to chase your tail, turn around(repeat action)

If you tail likes to wiggle and it makes your Mommy giggle, 

If you like to chase your tail, turn around(repeat action)

If your feet are getting sleepy, touch your toes(bend over and touch toes)

If your feet are getting sleepy, touch your toes(repeat action)

If your toes like to wiggle and it makes your Mommy giggle, 

If your feet are getting sleepy, touch your toes(repeat action)

If you feel like a bunny go hop-hop(child hops twice)

If you feel like a bunny go hop-hop(child hops twice)

If you feel like a bunny, and your Mommy calls your honey,

If your feel like a bunny go hop-hop(repeat action)

Books:

• Honey Bunny by Mary Englebreit
• Easter Egg Surprise by Kate Gleeson
• Peter Cottontail and The Easter Egg Hunt by J. R. Brent Ritchie and Rebecca McKillip

Some ideas came from the following books:

• Unplugged Play by Bobbi Conner
• Big Book of Monthly Arts and Crafts by The Mailbox
• The Kids' Encyclopedia Of Things To Make And Do by Richard Michael Rasmussen
• Pack-O-Fun Magazine  www.pack-o-fun.com

Easter Week: Friday!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell Week: Friday!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell Week

Friday!

Crafts:

• Shell Picture: All Sorts Shells(different sizes and colors), glue, box frame, yellow card stock, tape

1. Glue shells onto a piece of card stock, in a beautiful picture and/or arrangement.
2. Fix the card in a box frame deep enough for the 3D picture.  Tape it on back.

• Shell Box:  Small box with lid, paint, assorted shells, glue

1. Paint box, let dry.
2. Glue assorted shells all around the box, except on the box.  

• Shell Paper Weight: A medium-size wide-mouth jar with a leak-proof lid, shells: a variety of small and tiny ones, nonwater-soluble, clear-drying glue, extra-long tweezers(optional), a pile of beach rubble(finely crushed shells), non-floating glitter flakes, chlorine bleach, paint brush

1. Make sure the jar is perfectly clean.  Select shells to use to create your seascape.  It's a good idea to have one larger shell as a focal point.
2. Glue the large shell inside the bottom of the jar.  Then arrange the others around it.  Long tweezers may help as the jar gets crowded.  Allow the arrangement to dry completely.  
3. With the brush, dabble glue on the parts of the "sea bottom" that are still plain glass.  Be careful not to get glue on the shells.
4. Put in a handful of beach rubble.  Screw on the lid, shake the jar gently, then set it down to let the glue dry.  Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the bottom is completely covered.
5. When the glue is completely dry, add a tablespoon or so of glitter flakes.
6. Fill the jar to the brim with water plus 3 tablespoons of chlorine bleach, then screw the lid on securely.
7. Shake--and see the phosphorescent sea foam. 

Activities:

• Salt Sculpting: Glass jar with lid, salt, colored chalk

1. In a glass jar you can make patterns with salt that look like sand designs.
2. First, choose  a clean, dry jar.  
3. Place a handful of salt in a bowl and "mash" the salt with a stick of colored chalk.  Keep pressing the chalk into the salt until you get the depth of color you want.
4. Pour the colored salt gently into the jar.  Then color batches of salt different colors, and add more layers to your jar.  
5. As you add layers of different colors, you can make interesting designs by gently tipping the jar from side to side or by poking the layers just inside the glass with a stick to create jagged edges.
6. Treat your finished design very gently and place it in a spot where bumped.  Topping off your design by filling the jar to the very brim with either plain or colored salt before putting on the lid will also help to keep it from shifting.  

• Ocean Foam:  Egg, cold metal bowl, kitchen whisk

1. Crack the egg open and separate the white from the yolk.  The easy way to do this is by holding the half shells over the metal bowl and shifting the yolk back and forth between the shells, letting the white fall into the bowl.
2. With the whisk, beat the egg white until it turns to foam and stands in stiff peaks.  What do the stiff peaks resemble?

The most common cause of surface waves on the ocean is the wind.  The size of the waves depends on the wind speed, wind duration, and distance of water over which the wind blows.  As the waves crash on the shore, millions of tiny bubbles form because lots of air mixes with the water.  When you studied the foam of the egg white, you saw stiff peaks.  These peaks form because you beat thousands of tiny air bubbles into the egg white, much as the wind beats air into ocean water.  

• Making Waves:  1 plastic bottle(2 liter) per child, water, blue food coloring, vegetable oil, tape

1. Rinse bottles well and add water to fill the bottles half way.
2. Add several drops of food coloring per bottle.
3. Add 1/2 cup vegetable oil to each bottle.
4. Screw on the cap and tape it securely to the bottle. 
5. Make waves by gently rocking the bottle.

Snacks:

• Nemo fruit snacks
• Clear cups with blue jello and add gummy fish to cups.
• Goldfish

Education:

Letters/Words

• Review the words of the week

Numbers

•  Number Memory Game: 2 decks of cards

1. Take out all the face cards and numbers 6-10. Combine the rest of the two decks.  
2. Turn the cards over and so that you can't see the numbers.
3. Then have your child try to find the matching pair.

Music:

Rub-a-dub-dub

Three men in a tub;

And who do you think they be?

The butcher, the baker,

The candlestick maker;

All scrubbing their way out to sea.

Song found on boopadoo website.  There is 4 other versions on this site.  And websites on printable coloring pages and worksheets.

Also Kididdles website has a Rub-a-Dub Journey song.

Rhyme:

A sailor went to sea sea sea
To see what he could see see see
And all that he could see see see
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea.

Version #2:

Three sailors went to sea, sea, sea,
To see what they could sea, sea, sea,
But all that they could sea, sea, sea
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea

Three sailors went to China
To see what they could China
But all that they could China
Was the bottom of the deep blue China

Three sailors went to ooh-watch-ee-kah
To see what they could ooh-watch-ee-kah
But all that they could ooh-watch-ee-kah
Was the bottom of the deep blue ooh-watch-ee-kah

Three sailors went to Pepsi Co
To see what they could Pepsi Co
But all that they could Pepsi Co
Was the bottom of the deep blue Pepsi Co

Three sailors went to sea, sea, sea,
To see what they could China
But all that they could ooh-watch-ee-kah
Was the bottom of the deep blue Pepsi Co 

Was found on beachnet website 

Book:

• There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell by Lucille Colandro

Some ideas found in the following books:

• The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle time and Group Activities by Gryphon House
• Nature In A Nutshell For Kids by Jean Potter
• 127 Anytime Crafts Kids Can Make by Highlights 

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell Week: Friday!