I got the packages of our school books and workbooks in the mail last week. And, I got busy planning our year and was able to get us started on our Kindergarten year this week. So, we are official Kindergartners. Exciting, yeah? Of course!
I'm a little intimidated because this year I am teaching these girls how to read. Please, let it be not as horrible as I am thinking! Time will tell, right?
The girls were excited to get started with school again. We had taken a 6 week break. I think we all needed that break.
I have started having an incentive a few times a week for them. Art projects are the incentive. Easy, right!? They know if they are listening and following directions during school, they get to do the fun art project that I have planned.
Today, I had to do the first part of the project before our actual school work. We have to let our project dry before we can use them. I got this idea from the crafty Julie! She is always coming up with fun things to do. Check out hers here.
We made stamps! Fun! I loved it just as much as the girls.
Some foam paper, scissors, hole punch, glue, and wooden blocks equals a fun time and lots of stamps for really cheap!
Bella showing me her favorite stamp. She saw me make one and wanted to do the same.
Emily deep in her thoughts. She didn't end up using any of the pieces she cut. I cut out everything for them in advance so the project was more fun for them. You can see on the yellow tray in the first picture there are piles of different shaped pieces. That worked out perfectly. The blocks are small enough that it isn't very easy for them to cut out their own.
Bella in her zone.
Here are all the stamps that Bella made.
I joined in the fun, too. Here are all of mine.
And, here are all of the ones Emily made. Notice that most of hers look like faces. I think that was her intention.
They are drying right now. We will be testing them out here in a little bit!
Here we are using all our made stamps (and some that we already had from the store).
Emily started spelling out words she knew. Very good and educational on her part! Smart girl!
And, so you can see how some of our stamps turned out, here are the ones I made. The project worked really well! I highly recommend you doing this.
Go buy your supplies now! :)
2 comments:
Sorry I have been offline mama, havent stopped by recently!
Ñyour art project looks like tons of fun, cant wait for our own space to use some of your ideas :)
That looks like so much fun! Your stamps are so cool! What a great idea to cut a lot of foam pieces first.
I'm glad the girls seem to like them! (And thanks for the link!)
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