Arts & Crafts

[melissa ann]

This summer we did summer journals. We did not fill them out every day but a couple times/week. The kids drew pictures and on the other side of the paper, I wrote the date and what the drawing is about.
Mondays we had picnic days,
Tuesdays was story/craft hour at local library
Wednesday and Thursdays (Tuesdays when story hour was done for the summer) was curriculum.
Friday was neighborhood walk
So the kids would draw things pertaining to our activites. The books went home the last friday in august. it was fun looking through the book and seeing what we did/saw. Somethings I had forgotten.

Now we are doing preschool journals. I got notebooks for each kid. Each page will be desingated to a letter or number. We are doing letters now. Letter A I wrote A,a and the kids practice writing the letter a. I also drew an apple that they colored in. We also made an apple our of construction paper. I cut out the shapes of the apple, leaf and stem and they glue it together.
For B, the same concept in the notebook but I drew a big B on construction paper and used up all of our scrap paper by having the kids glue the pieces on the B to form the letter b.
IT's not much, but the kids love it and I don't get too upset by the parents mishandling the projects and never taking them out of the car.

[momma2girls]

My daycare children all 3 of them, are under 2 yrs. old. Once they hit 2, we start creating fun things, doing more and more preschool things

[momma2girls]

Where do you all get your ideas for craft projects? My DCK's are all a little over 2, and starting to have enough of an attention span to do them. Do you get ideas from websites? I'm thinking we need to start off with easy things.

My 3 daycare children are all under 3, 2 of them are under one, so I do not do arts and crafts, til the age of 2- then start fun things then

[Cat Herder]

You could take pictures of each kid's craft and then send home/recycle/whatever the craft itself. At the end of the year, you could compile a scrapbook of the work the kid did over the year.

This is how I do it.

I also mail crafts to Grandparents.

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

You could take pictures of each kid's craft and then send home/recycle/whatever the craft itself. At the end of the year, you could compile a scrapbook of the work the kid did over the year.

This is what I do.