May 9, 2008
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Are You My Mother?
by P.D. Eastman
A Ride on Mother's Back
by Emery Bernhard
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Personalized Mother’s Day Clock
What You Need:
- Inexpensive clock
- Paper
- Markers or crayons
- Scissors
- Paint (optional)
What You Do:
- Pop the plastic cover off an inexpensive clock.
- Remove the hands of the clock.
- Cut prepared artwork to the same size as the clock face.
- Insert the artwork.
- Add numbers around the edge.
- Replace the hands of the clock.
- Replace the plastic cover.
- Another Option: If you cannot remove the clock face, paint and decorate around the hands.
Homemade Bouquet of Flowers
What You Need:
- Construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers or crayons
- Pipe cleaners
What You Do:
- Trace the child's hand on a piece of skin-colored paper. Cut along the lines.
- On a new piece of paper, glue the palm of the hand to the lower left part of the paper.
- Using green pipe cleaners or a marker make the stems of the flowers.
- Bend the middle and ring fingers over the stems of the flowers and glue them onto the palm. This is the sign for “I Love You” in American Sign Language.
- Cut flowers out of construction paper and glue them to the stems.
May 16, 2008
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Ten Little Ladybugs
by Melanie Gerth
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Well, we’re going to Reduce the amount of waste that we produce. We’re going to Reuse as many things as we can. And we’re going to Recycle by taking materials from things we have finished using and making brand new things with them. For example, most of the aluminum cans in the United States are made with recycled aluminum. So if you drink juice or soda from a can, recycle that can instead of throwing it in the trash. That can will stay in the recycling loop and out of the landfill. And all three of these things – Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling – can help us keep our planet clean and make it a nice place to live.
Lady Bugs
What You Need:
- Rocks
- Washable paint
- Pencil
- Black marker
- Wiggly eyes
- Glue
What You Do:
- Clean rock
- Paint body red
- Paint head black
- Using the black marker draw a straight line down the middle of the rock
- Dip the eraser end of your pencil in black paint and use the pencil to make nice round dots for the spots on the lady bug
- Glue wiggly eyes onto the head
May 23, 2008
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Make Way for Tooth Decay
by Bobbi Katz
Germs! Germs! Germs!
by Germs! Germs! Germs!
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What You Need:
- Hard boiled egg
- Cup
- Soda/Pop
- Tooth brush
- Tooth paste
What You Do:
- Hard boil an egg.
- Place the egg in the cup filled with soda for a day.
- Talk about why we should keep our teeth clean and how we can keep them clean.
- Take the egg out of the soda. It is discolored, yellow, looks like plaque.
- Take a tooth brush with a little tooth paste and brush it off. The "plaque" really will come off!
Teach children that brushing is important by turning a yellow tooth bright white by brushing...
What You Need:
- Yellow construction paper
- Scissors
- White tempera paint
- Corn syrup
- Toothbrush
What You Do:
- Cut the yellow construction paper into a tooth shape.
- Mix paint and corn syrup into equal amounts.
- Dip toothbrush into paint mixture.
- Let the children "brush" the mixture onto the cut out tooth.
- Let dry.
May 30, 2008
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Angelina Has the Hiccups!
by Katharine Holabird
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What You Need:
- scissors
- dowl rod or chop stick
- ribbon
- glue
- glitter
- Foamboard
What You Do:
Draw a star on a piece of foamboard. Cut out the star or let your child cut out the star with a pair of safety scissors.
Have your child use a glue stick to cover the star in glue. Let him sprinkle the star with glitter. Then, set aside to dry.
Cut the ribbon the same length as the dowl rod or chop stick.
Once the star is dry, place the ribbon behind the star. Then place the dowl rod or chop stick behind the ribbon.
Glue the star and ribbon to the dowl rod or chop stick.
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