There are so many fun
things to do in the spring. We have included our
favorites. Hope that you can find something that you
can use in your classroom.
April
Showers
This was a
door decoration was done with a very large umbrella made
using colored and flowered tissue paper. It was
backed with butcher paper and laminated. A black,
construction paper handle was added. The rain drops
were cut from light blue, construction paper that had been
folded in fourths. You can see the bottom ones were
falling open! We added each child's laminated photo
to the raindrops. Then, in May we unfolded the
raindrops to make the raindrops into flowers. We also
changed to title to say: April Showers Bring May
Flowers. We also used polyester batting for the
clouds.
Hanging
Umbrellas
These
giant umbrellas were made with newspaper. The adult
puts about 6 layers of newspaper together to cut a giant
size umbrella. The kids paint the umbrella. The
handle is attached after the umbrella is dry. We had
the children decorate their umbrella with stickers, paint,
dotted stickers, and patches. Some of them were hung
from the lights and the rest were put on the bulletin
board. Our title was "April Showers Bring Mud
Puddles" and added footprints in brown from that
bulletin board to the next bulletin board.
Hand Print
Flower Bulletin Board
This
is an idea that was given to me by Kerry from British
Columbia. Thanks, Kerry! Each child's hand was
dipped in paint and their handprint stamped around in a
circular shape. Their pictures were added to the
center of the flower. Pictures were cropped into a
round shape.
Daffodils
We gave each child copies of
a six pointed star type flower. These were cut out
and mounted on a 9x12 piece of blue construction paper.
Then each child coiled a piece
of
4x 1 1/2" piece of paper for the center "trumpet."
The end of each trumpet was dipped in a bit of white glue
and allowed to dry flat. Green strips of construction
paper were tucked under the flower and trimmed off at the
bottom of the blue paper. These were very colorful,
and the children had lots of fun making them.
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