Spring Time "School Name" Bulletin Board- Submitted by Cindy

Cut a Spring basket Shape out of Butcher paper. Get a mixture of starch and water (or just starch) and some tissue paper. (different colors) Paint the basket with the starch and place the tissue paper on it. Pull it off and the color is left behind. Staple it to the board.

Then Make the following projects to add to the bulletin board

Coffee Filter Flowers

food coloring, Coffee Filters, pipe cleaners

Put the food coloring ont he filters in drops, let it dry, make flowers with the pipe cleaners

Make Egg Carton Caterpillars

Take 1 side of an egg carton, paint it with different colors of Tempra paint. Let dry and add eyes,nose, mouth, and pipe cleaner antenna. Then decorate as desired; Add them to the board crawling around the bottom.

Coffee Filter Butterflies

Same process as the Flowers. Only make them like butterflies instead of flowers. Put this all together with the sun and clouds. Makes a very cute Spring Time scene.

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Teaching Props- Submitted by Sherry

· Make matching number on flowers, file folder game.

· Make matching color on flowers, file folder game.

· Make matching shapes on flowers, file folder game.

· Make matching patterns on flowers, file folder game.

· Make a flower pattern, glue it onto tagboard, laminate it, and cut it into several large pieces to make a puzzle.

· Make a flower pattern, glue it onto tagboard, laminate it, and punch holes around it to make lacing cards.

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Other Things To Do- Submitted by Sherry

· Plant a flower or vegetable garden with the children’s help.

· Talk about the change of seasons and weather.

· Talk about plant growth.

· Visit the library and get books about spring and how things grow.

· Let the child water his/her plant daily.

· Discuss the size, shape and color of the flower or vegetables you have planted.

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Go Fly A Kite Bulletin Board- Submitted by Sherry

Trace a kite pattern onto brown paper. Cut through two thickness of paper at the same time. Stitch the two kite shaped cutouts together, stuff the kite with newspaper strips before making the last stitch, and attach a fabric strip tail. You will need a child shape cutout and insert a picture of your children into the face area of the cutout. Staple the child shape cutouts and the kites that the children have decorated to the bulletin board. Connect the kites and children cutouts with yarn.

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Spring Is In The Air Bulletin Board- Submitted by Sherry

Tissue paper flowers, construction paper sun, rain drops, birds, butterflies and sunflowers the children made. Place these items on a light colored background to make a fun bulletin board from the child’s art work.

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Interactive Bulletin Board- Submitted by Sherry

The purpose of this bulletin board is to have the children place the proper number of ribbons on each kite tail. To do this they need to look at the number of dots on the kite. Construct kites and print the numerals beginning with one and the corresponding number of dots on each. Construct ribbons for the tails of the kites. Color the kites and tails and laminate. Staples kites to the bulletin board. Affix magnetic strips to each kite as the string. Affix a magnetic piece in the middle of each ribbon. Label this bulletin board “Let’s Go Fly A Kite!”

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Field Trips- Submitted by Sherry

Greenhouse or Nursery Visit a green house or you could tour a nursery or gardens. Let children experience all the flowers that are in bloom. Let them try to name some of the flowers.

Nature Walk

Walk around your neighborhood, looking for signs of spring. Robins and other birds are often first signs of spring and can usually be observed in most areas of the country.

Farm

Arrange a field trip to a farm. It is an interesting place to visit during the spring. Ask the farmer to show you the farm equipment, buildings, crops and animals.

Spring Cleanup

Each child should be provided with a paper bag to collect litter on a walk to a park in your neighborhood, or even on your playground. The litter should be discarded when you return home. Also, the children should be instructed to wash their hands.

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Bulletin Board- Submitted by Cheryl

Mix together 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, 2 drops red food coloring, and 2 cups water. Have children drizzle trails of the mixture along the branches of a corrugated cardboard tree. Children then press popcorn pieces and tissue paper squares into the mixture. For flowers, children pinch and twist the centers of two coffee filters together, pull the layers apart, and dip the edges into one or more colors of thinned pastel tempera paint. Mount the dry tree and flowers with paper stems and leaves in a field of cellophane grass.

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Bulletin Board- Submitted by Sherry

Two - Four - Six - Eight, Meet Me At The Garden Gate! Of course, you’d have to have a garden scene depicted on your bulletin board. You could incorporate birds and bird houses, flowers, wheelbarrows, watering cans, bees and a hive, garden tools, butterflies, ladybugs, etc. This would go really well with a Peter Rabbit garden as well.

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April Showers Bring May Flowers Bulletin Board- Submitted by Sherry

Ashlee offers this suggestion saying, "What I did was put evey other letter green and blue. Blue symbolizes the showers and green for the flowers. Then to add detail, I cut out big rain drops to give to each child to personally decorate themselves. If you can fit their names on the rain drops, it turns out awesome with some glitter. Next have your class make some flowers for the rain to fall on.

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April Room Decoration & Bulletin Board- Submitted by Sherry

We cut out an umbrella shape with the middle cut out for each child, leaving a border about 3/4" all the way around. We cut Contact paper the same shape and back each umbrella with the sticky side shining up through the middle. I look for rainbow, rain drop & baby shower confetti and sequins in shades of blue to arrange on the Contac paper. Or you can use torn pieces of colored tissue paper.

Then top the umbrella with another sheet (the umbrella shape) of Contact paper. Add a pipe cleaner handle and you have a lovely 'sun catcher'. I've done raindrops, fall leaves, christmas tree shapes etc. If you back your bulletin board with white or yellow these look great on it. They sparkle in the windows and hang from the ceiling too.

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Bulletin Board for May- Submitted by Sherry

Each child is making a muffin liner flower with a pipe cleaner stem and cut-out leaves. They can fringe the muffin liner if they like. We're gluing a picture of each child in the center of the flower and each class will have it's own flower pot filled with 'Our Classy May Flowers'

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April Showers Bulletin Board- Submitted by Sherry

Cut out umbrella, sequins, or anything else to decorate it with. Raindrops cut out of blue construction paper.

For an April bulletin board I cut out umbrella's and let the children decorate them with different shaped sequins. Then I cut out different size raindrops and put them up on the bulletin board. April showers bring may flowers.

For May I had the children paint large flowers using different colors and I put the child's picture in the center of the flower

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Spring Weather Watch Bulletin Board- Submitted by Sherry

Items to place on the board: white cloud, yellow sun, kite, umbrella, raindrops, snowflakes Make a big T.V. screen. Have children select the appropriate weather-related pattern for each day. Pin the pattern inside the T.V. screen.

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Field Trips- Submitted by Sherry

Visit a local greenhouse to see Easter lilies and other spring blooming plants.

Visit a loca farm to see newborn animals, spring planting or beehives.

Visit a hatchery and obtain chicken or duck eggs to hatch.

Visit a zoo that may have newborn animals and/or a petting farm section.

Go to a park on a nature walk or to an open field to fly a kite.

Visit a Feed and Seed Store.

A small shallow stream of water is a safe place to observe water creatures like tadpoles, frogs, crayfish, and minnows.

Go to a duck pond and see the ducks. Ducklings generally arrive in May.

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Spring Bulletin Board- Submitted by Cindy

In this case the more you add, the better it gets! Glue each child's photo inside a muffin-tin liner. Mount the blooms along with construction paper stems, leaves, and grass. Then encourage children to visit your art center and make spring things--such as butterflies, ladybugs, birds, rainbows, and clouds--to add to the board. Spring has definitely sprung!

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Flower Power- Submitted by Cindy

Setting Up

Gather nonbreakable vases and flowerpots.

Cut a Styrofoam® circle to fit the opening of some of the pots. Spray-paint the circles brown. Poke a different number of holes from 1 to 5 in each of the circles. Label each pot with a different numeral from 1 to 5 and a set of dots that correspond to the number of holes in the Styrofoam.

Collect fake flowers of various colors and types. Store the flowers in vases or containers in groups of five.

Fill a large tub with potting soil. Provide children's gardening gloves and tools. Place empty flowerpots and an empty watering can near the soil.

Label index cards with different numerals from 1 to 5 and matching dot sets. Attach the cards to craft sticks. Place the cards near the soil.

Place paper, pencils, and a toy cash register filled with real pennies on the paper tablecloth-covered table.

Label index cards with different numerals from 1 to 5. Glue a matching set of pennies to each card. Place the cards near the cash register.

Purchase packages of decorative bees or butterflies and place them in the center.

Student Activities

Use the flowers and empty containers to create flower arrangements. Students count the number of flowers in the arrangement.

Students place the correct number of flowers in each of the numbered pots. Students count aloud the number of petals on a flower.

Place a numeral card in the potting soil. Students plant the number of flowers indicated on the card.

While working with the soil, students count scoops of dirt used to fill containers.

Have students count as many decorative bees or butterflies as there are flowers in the soil, matching one insect to each flower.

Tag arrangements with the numeral cards that have pennies. A child pretending to be a shopper can count and give the corresponding number of pennies to a child pretending to be the florist.

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