1-2-3 Make A Gift Baggie With Me
If you're still in school and want to make a sweet treat for your kiddo's to give their dad's for Father's Day, you may want to try this puzzle activity.
I designed two different puzzle headers: I love you to pieces as well as, we love you to pieces.
You can use the "I" header for a beginning of the year treat bag for your students, or a gift for Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Use the "We" header for a gift for Secretary's Day.
You can buy bulk Reeses Pieces at Sam's Club. Have children put a few scoopfuls in a Snack Baggie.
If you're only making a few gifts for volunteers or secretaries, you can buy Reeses in a snack package or mini box, and attach your puzzle pieces to the top and bottom.
Run the headers off on white construction paper and have children color them lightly with crayons in an assortment of colors.
Add a bit more pizzazz by having students glue their school photo to a puzzle piece and then sign their name on yet another one.
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1-2-3 Come Make Butterflies and Flowers With Me!
Are you studying butterflies or looking for a quick and easy center activity that makes a lovely spring bulletin board or window display, that will brighten up your room?
Wax paper butterflies jazzed up with melted crayons, might be just what you need.
Here’s how to make them:
Run off the body part of the butterfly on a variety of colors of construction paper.
Rough cut them and stack them into color piles so that students can choose their favorite.
While students are working on a tabletop lesson, call them individually to the table.
Students choose a color or colors of crayons that they want to shave.
Students hold the sharpener over a sheet of wax paper big enough to be able to trace 3 hearts on.
You need it larger so that when the shavings melt, they do not run outside of the wax paper.
Make sure the wax paper is on a mini ironing board or a folded towel.
When the child has enough shavings sprinkled around the paper, lay a second piece of wax paper on top.
Using an iron on the lowest setting, slowly melt the shavings. Be careful that the pools do not run off the paper.
Let cool a few seconds and have the child step to the side to trace the heart template onto the wax paper.
Once done, she takes her paper back to her seat and cuts out the hearts and glues them to the back of her butterfly’s thorax.
When they are done, they can bring their butterfly up to you, so that you can give them glue dots for their wiggle eyes and rhinestones that they have picked out.
These look fabulous on a window. Simply put a small piece of folded tape on the thorax and stick.
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If you don’t want to mess with melting crayons, squares of tissue paper attached with
Elmer’s glue also look awesome.
There are 12 different templates in the wax paper and tissue packet.
These projects are simple, inexpensive, quick, and also look fantastic hanging in a window.
My students loved making them and always asked to do more than one.
Tape them to a sheet of construction paper as a "flip up" and you have a "way cool" greeting card for Mother’s Day or whatever.
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