SUMMER
Bulletin Boards
SUMMER
Background Green- Make
a lizard/frog board! Get some cheap
rubber lizards and staple around board decorated like
summer...trees, a pond etc...
Background White-Put a board size
sheet of paper on art table and
Grow a small
garden! I let the kids dig up a small patch on the
playground each year for sunflowers that daycare
(who goes year round)
Can't dig it up?
Grow them in pots.
Make salt water
like at the beach. Add pictures of salt water fish.
Cut different
vegetables open and let the kids get the seed out to
dry. Compare with flower seeds. Add a sorting tray.
Add a small scale and weigh
different vegetables.
Color Can
mixed! Wrap this can in several colors and mix all the little
objects up to have a multicolored
color can. Use with sorting tray or bowls.
Paint the
sidewalk or building with water!
Many pre-schools now have tricycle tracks.
Paint them with water colors.
Easel paint outside
using blue paper and white paint for clouds.
Take some chalk
out and draw clouds and flowers.
Glue cotton balls
on blue paper for summer clouds.
Cut out vegetable
pictures from old seed catalogs.
Brush colored glue (food color)
onto paper plates and sprinkle with flower petals and seeds.
Bring in
containers of sand, dirt and clay...discuss the differences. Read
Eric Carle's The Very Quiet Cricket. We keep a large
tub full of sand and change the play things in it
each week. Have a swim day!
Have the kids bring their suits to school and fill up a small
plastic pool. Use Brown or Blue
Magic Box
Bring out rubber sea creatures, lizards, snakes..etc...Have
the kids identify them.
Read a seashore
book. I made
a flannel
board story of three bears going to the beach. A bee gets into the
the car and makes them have a small wreak. Little bear hurt his
knee because he wasn't wearing his seatbelt! Good
re-enforcement for seat belts when parents get lax
about them. Show
pictures
of a picnic. Then have one! If it rains have it
anyway, inside. We do this every year right in the middle of winter.
It's fun and creates all kinds of weather talk. Be sure to set out a
blanket
on the floor and add sunshades and paper fans made at art table the day before. Invite the
parents to come and help have a cookout. Get the
parents involved with cooking and outdoor activities
with their child.
Put blue food coloring in the water table and add sailboats.
Take a trip to the zoo.
Blow up baloons and play volley ball.
Have barefoot day in the room.
Paint the bottom of the feet in rainbow colored stripes.
Step on a piece of construction paper. Parent's are surprised and
pleased with feet prints from school.
Make sure those feet are clean and dry before they go home!
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