Spring Tissue Paper Flowers

As you all know my favorite craft material is... TISSUE PAPER! To brighten up our room the students made these great flowers by painting tissue paper onto cardstock with a mixture of water and glue. Great for OT.

Tissue Paper Easter Eggs

 This was a great easy inexpensive technique for dyeing Easter eggs. My students loved this activity. I think they were so interested because it was a way they never saw before.
First we cut tissue paper into different size squares. Next, we dipped the tissue paper into water and placed them over the egg (see above). After the eggs were completely covered we let them dry for about an hour. Then, we peeled the tissue paper off of the egg.... though it basically fell off! Below is the finished product! This was a very messy project though because the dye drips off the tissue paper and the egg. My hands are still blue!

Easter Eggs

This is our version of dying easter eggs. The students cut out egg shaped ovals. Next they each designed their own pattern or drawing in white crayon. Then they took turns dripping food coloring on their egg while I sprayed water so it would run together. Fun activity but very VERY messy!

Spring is here!

Spring is here in room 101

 Above our reading library we have a spring inspired tree. This tree has been up all year and we just change it with the seasons!

 The students used a tissue paper technique to decorate flower cut outs. They could decorate them however they wanted. This was a great OT activity.

This is our spring themed bulletin board in the hallway. I am not sure whose quote this is. I found the quote and the idea for the 3D flowers online.  For the grass the kids stamped their hand prints. The raindrops are made from transparency paper stuffed with tissue paper (another great OT activity).

Winter Bulletin Board

Had to post a picture of our bulletin board before we take it down to put up spring!

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess: Oobleck experiment

Oobleck

 

My students love to get messy!

To celebrate Dr. Suess's Birthday we made Oobleck today in Science class. First, we read Bartholomew And The Oobleck. Then, we made Oobleck. Next, we wrote down all of the words we could think of that could describe Oobleck. I got this great idea from on of my favorite blogs: The Diary of a first grade teacher blog! Thanks Mrs. Buckly

Materials:

2 cups corn starch

1 1/2 cup water

4 drops of green food coloring

Grass Caterpillar

For science class and as an Occupational Therapy activity we made grass caterpillars. The students loved this activity but beware because it is messy! To start mix grass seed and soil in a large pot. Then pour the seed into about a 8-12 inches of women's pantyhose. It helps if you use a funnel. Tie a not at the top and then use rubber bands to make the pantyhose into 3-4 lumps. Students will see the grass growing in multiple steps. This is a great activity to show plant roots. We used a squirt bottle to water the grass. When the grass started to grow long we gave it a "haircut." We also used a data chart and drew pictures to chart our caterpillars progress.