SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER SAP ART & ACTIVITES...

Here is a peek at some of the fun we had in the months of September and October.
Dinosaurs make really cool tracks in the playdoh. They are also fun to hide in the playdoh.

All aboard the shape train. This activity helped to intoduce for some and reinforce for others the basic shapes.

In September we spent some time on Nursery Rhymes. We used egg shells to create our Humpty Dumpty, and then fixed his boo-boo with a band-aide.

More fun with dinosaurs. This time with finger paint and triangles.

Black sponge painted bats with orange beads. (colors of the month).

Itsy Bitsy spider(s) in the spider web. More color reinforcement here.

We read one of our favorite Halloween stories, 'Woo! The Not-So-Scary Ghost,' then created our own ghost handprints with a mixture of half glue, half shaving cream. Makes a nice puffy ghost and is great for sensory integration.

5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate. This is a great fine motor activity. Believe or not, tearing paper is not so easy for two year olds. They tend to want to pull it apart.

Thanks for looking!

CHANGITO IN MY CLASSROOM..

Well, take a good look now.... This is the top-half of the door to my classroom at school. I used these adorable Changito monkeys. I stamped it, then used an opaque projector to make the image larger. I traced it onto bulletin board paper with pencil, then went over it with a black sharpie. I then used my daughter's crayons to color it. I wrapped my door with yellow bulletin board paper, then cut out the monkey's and put them on the door. I added grass by cutting green construction paper with my scissors and then layered it on the bottom of the door. I used the school's ellison die cut machine to cut out the apple and backed the frame with black construction paper to make it look like a chalkboard. I used chalk to write the Welcome message.

Normally, I would change out the door decoration each month.. and had big plans to update with Changito for each season and theme. However, there is a new Fire Marshall in town.. and while visiting, he informed us we can no longer decorate our doors --poooey!!! We have done this for the past upteen years, but now it is a no, no. So, take a good look now... poor Changito will come down at the end of the month.