Materials
- Scissors
- Twine or yarn
- Washable markers
- Large white paper
What to do
1. Help the children cut yarn or twine into 5" to 6" (12 to 15 cm) pieces.
2. Help the children tie a piece of twine or yarn to the non-ink end of each marker.
3. Encourage the children to hold the piece of twine and dangle the marker so that the point touches a piece of paper.
4. The children can gently swing the markers in circles, back and forth, or other movements to form a variety of interesting patterns and color schemes.
More to do
- Use kaleidoscopes to extend this discussion of color and patterns.
-Charlene Woodham Peace, Semmes, AL
Instructions
1. Pour each color of pastel paint onto a separate cookie sheet.
2. Encourage the children to place the bottom of a berry basket into the paint.
3. Ask them to gently move it around in the paint to coat it.
4. Encourage the children to place the paint-coated berry basket on a large piece
of white paper, making any design. (The children may use all five colors or
just one.)
5. The children may want to glue flower pictures or stickers on the finished
pictures.
6. Allow the pictures to dry before displaying them.
More to do
Language: Ask the children if they can think of words that rhyme with "spring."
Create a poem or story with the words they say. For example:
Can a bright blue bird
With a bright blue wing
Fly in the spring,
Taking winter away
To play for some other day?
Can you hear the newly bloomed bluebells ring?
When they pop up from their garden beds
On the first day of spring?
Can you hear the rain sing,
And when it hits the window still makes a ping?
Standing in the rain
Can you feel it sting?
And the rain won't let you swing.
It's too wet right now,
But that's okay
"Cause it's just spring anyhow.
