Friday, June 8, 2012

Spray Paint Galaxies

 Our class loves spray bottles! We often fill them with water and take them into the playground. For this activity, I filled the bottles with watered-down white tempera paint. Then the children sprayed it onto black construction paper to make stars. 
 Of course the paint got everywhere! But we were expecting that and had lots of paper towels on hand. 
 Next, each child colored a rocket ship to add to their space scene. 
 Some of the children sprayed so much paint that it didn't look much like stars; but once the pictures dried they still looked like very cool space scenes.  

Monday, June 4, 2012

Rocket Ship Names

 The kids in our class have been very interested in their names and the names of their classmates. For this reason I wanted an activity that reinforced name recognition. I found this fun project at www.prekinders.com. It's great because it incorporates the children's names into our current theme, space travel. 

Before starting the activity, I cut several sheets of green construction paper into one inch squares. I also cut triangles out of blue construction paper to use as the pointy tops of the rockets. When the children came to the table, I wrote the letters of their names on the paper squares and showed them how to glue the squares onto white paper to make a rocket ship. 
After glueing the pieces together, the children used red and orange markers to make "fire" coming out of the bottoms of their rockets.
 Now we are all ready to blast off!