The Preparing Homemaker: Kids

Kids, Class party (Dollar Store)

I love the dollar store. Of course you have to be careful what you buy, but for the most part it is good quality. Not the best, but it what do you want for a buck? Here are somethings I bought for my class party. Yes, I did regret some purchases.

Decorations are a yes. I got almost all the decorations here from the dollar store. They held up nicely.

The kids loved it!

Bubbles were OK. It was just hard putting the top back on. Some of them spilled. They had fun with them while they lasted.

The kite was a lot of fun. Everyone got a chance to fly it. It was pretty windy out that day so it worked out great!

The candy at the dollar store is great quality. I bought it for a candy hunt. I just scattered it on the field. The students loved this. Just give them bags and let them go crazy.

Instead of water balloons I bought sponge balls. You get a lot less wet than with water balloons, but still have the same amount of fun. The kids were excited to keep these. They do lose there form after awhile.

Ice Pops are cheap and yummy. We got to dry off eating these on a warm summer day.

The play dough was OK. Some of the packages I bought were dried out. We end up having enough, but it was kind of disappointing. They had fun sculpting different things for prizes.

This styrofoam airplane was a hit. It came all white, so the class worked together to brighten it up with markers. It flies really well.

Here they are pretending it is about to crash. LOL

Kids, 3D hand

My kids did this fun 3D hand project in school today. Unfortunately, I didn't bring my camera so I can't give step by step instructions with pictures. I will link the blog were I found it. It gives clear step by step instructions. Pretty simple!

http://www.cometogetherkids.com/2012/03/optical-illusion-handprint.html

Kids, Hand print flowers

Here is a fun craft we did in school today. My students used their hands as the leaves and a flower stamp for the flower. We also glued Popsicle sticks on for a picket fence.

This is the end result.

They painted a stem up the center.

This is what it looked like after the first stamp.

We stamped it onto another color to give it a neat look.

The final product.

This is the boy's garden.

This is what the girl's garden looks like. I also had dragonfly stamps to add to the display.

Kids, Popsicle puzzle.

Here is a fun craft my students did in school today. All of them loved it and want to do it again. Each popsicle puzzle averaged about 8 sticks. You will also need a cute picture, glue, and scissors. Pretty easy....

I found my pictures in a Better Homes and Gardens magazine.

You can do this two ways. First, lay the picture face down. Next, apply glue to the sticks and place them on the back of the picture. lastly, cut in between the spaces. Flip the puzzle and you're done!

The second way is simply using the popsicle stick as a guide line to cut. Most of my students preferred to do this way.

Next, apply glue on the popsicle stick and then attach the picture.

The finished product.

I flipped the picture over and added numbers in case they got stuck. :)

They did a wonderful job!

Kids, Classroom decorations.

So I don't have any kids (yet). However I am involved in many lives that are teens/children. It is a good way to prepare myself ;). Anyways, I am a teacher at a Christian school so I am with my students most of the day. I really try to think of clever ways to have fun and teach. For the decorations this month I decided to go with a mission theme. We just had our mission conference and I wanted to emphasize missionaries. I had my students do a report about their chosen missionary and then had them make a decoration for the classroom wall using construction paper. Pretty neat what we came up with....