Yes, I know it's June, but we have some catching up to do.
Rainy days are great for crafts, and just a few weeks after we moved to the new house (and her new classroom) we found ourselves stuck indoors. A quick trip to Michael's reminded us that Valentine's Day was fast approaching, so we grabbed an easy kit and returned home for a quick lesson on following directions. The kit had enough supplies so that we could create each of the three animals (butterfly, owl, and ladybug) a few times "just like in the pictures" and still have plenty left over for mixing it up.
Pulling the backing off the sticky pieces was a nice little fine motor work out, as was getting the pipe cleaners into the tiny holes. She liked her butterfly and ladybug so much that they are now permanent fixtures on our Days of the Week and Months of the Year posters.
I am the least arts-and-craftsy elementary teacher I know. I'm the gal who'd rather set up, demonstrate, and clean up eight stream tables so the entire fourth grade can learn about erosion than plan and execute what most would consider an easy art project. To make up for this major shortcoming, I enrolled Zelda in a session of weekly art classes taught by the preschool teacher at the Young at Art Museum. I'll blog about that soon because she starts the class's summer session next week, and I'm sure she will come home with another set of projects far more creative and inspiring than I could have conjured in a million years.
Thank goodness for Michael's and their wide array of idiot-proof craft kits.
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