Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Activities for children


Egg Maracas
Easter Egg Maracas
 













Materials that you need:
-Plastic eggs
-Rice 
-Plastic spoons
-Colored tape
 Easter Egg Maracas

How we did it:

First the kids open the eggs of plastic to insert a handful of grains of rice and to close them again. It takes 2 teaspoons to place them to the sides of the egg of plastic.


Easter Egg Maracas

Next, they placed the egg between two plastic spoons. Then they taped around the spoons to secure the egg.  

 Easter Egg Maracas

 It continues lining the piece with adhesive tape and it joins the handles of the spoons for major comfort.

 Easter Egg Maracas

 It decorates to your taste with colored tape.

And and starts enjoying his sounds!!!!

 Easter Egg Maracas

Easter Egg Maracas 



 Colored Pasta Jewellery

Material that you need: 
- Uncooked hollow pasta (eg. macaroni)
-Ziplock bags
-Food colouring
-Hand sanitiser
-Paper towe

How we did it:

The first place your uncooked pasta into a ziploc bag.  Put a few squirts of hand sanitiser into the bag.
Re-open the bag and pour a few drops of food colouring into the ziploc bag. 
Zip up the bag and shake until the food colouring has mixed evenly through the pasta. The pasta is extracted and places in towels in order that it dries off. The following step is to be putting the pasta in the thread and when it has been ended to close the necklace with zeal. Finally you have a wonderful necklace of macaroni.


 


















































Make coloured pasta jewellery


Other activities:


1.Jellyfish (Karla)


Materials:

A plastic plate , ribbons of different colors and shapes, glue and cardboard.



Description:

With ribbons of different colors and various types the kids can create the tentacles of jellyfish.

Children below should stick labels onto plastic plate .


Finally, can make the eyes of  jellyfish  with cardboard.
                                  2. Ocean in a Bottle (Cristina)

What You Do:

1. Pour sand in the bottle. After more or less fill halfway with water ..

2 Pour a drop of the color you choose.

3.Enter shells, stones and other marine objects.

4.Enter silicone bottle cap to latch it closed.

5. enjoy your favorite seabed. It's very relaxing.



What You Need:

-Glass bottle 

-Hot glue gun

-Water

-Oil

-Blue food coloring

-Sand


-Seashells


3. Recycling activity: caterpillar roll toilet paper (Alicia G.)
Materials: 

Toilet paper tube, hand paint, eyes stickers and cardboards of colours. 



Description:


If you want to do something with the kids about animals colours and nature you can use this idea. You can also work on recycling, because you use toilet paper tube, which are made of cardboard. It's a funny way  to recycle and learn. First you ask your kids that bring to class some toilet paper tube, them they decorate however they want with diferent colours of hand paint and put the eyes stickers on the first tube or where they want. Finally they will paste the tubes on cardboard with leaf form. AND YOU GET A BEAUTIFUL CATERPILLAR!

Alicia G. Activity 
                           4. Make a Straw Skeleton (Noelia)




What You Need:

-White chalk

-Glue

-Scissors

-Straws plastic

-Cardboar poster black 



What You Do:

Cut the straws into several pieces to make the bones of the skeleton.

After creating the skeleton, gluing each straw in the same way that your, wiht glue , always with help from you.

Then draw the skeleton heas whit white chalk.
                          5. Autumn has arrived (Miriam)



Materials: 

Papel, markers, crayons, colored pencis, scissors and glue stick



Description:

 Give to the children a paper with a draw of a leaf for them to decorate after a mural for Autumn.  Another way is that they draw the leaf and also they color it.




Other possibility is to make this mural with flowers when spring arrives, with snowmen when winter comes…

Miriam Activity 

                          6.FANNY SUN (Soraya) 

What You Need: Plastic plate, hand painting, thread and glue tag.

What You Do:
First, they will take his plate of plastic. Later with hand painting they will decorate the plate freely. They will use different colors. Beside, they will decorate with sponges or their hands
When they finish, they will put their sun in a window. It's important use glue tag and thread.
The children will learn a basic solar sistem.
Activity for 1-2 year old.




                             7.HOW TO MAKE YOUR CAR (Andrea S.)
                           Make a car craft for kids
MATERIALS:

-A toilet paper roll -
-4 plastic caps
-4 long beads
-4 rounded beads
-2 plastic stick
-A thumb tack
-A box cutter
-Paint
-Safe Scissors

HOW TO MAKE YOUR CAR

First the children paint rolls of toilet paper as they want.
Once they are dried with the help of an adult, they cut back windshield and small holes will be made, two on each side to be all four wheels. in the holes will put plastic sticks and along with another hole in the bottle caps will put.
We have the car ready for the next race.


Andrea S. Activity

                                          8.Ships of rind of nut (Tania)

                




Tania Activity 



                               9.Trick-or-Treat Bag (Michelle)



Materials:

    HalloweenTrick-o-TreatBag
  • Canvas tote bag (sold at local craft stores)
  • Tempera paints (Halloween colors)
  • Paintbrush
  • Paper plates
  • Scissors
  • Wiggle eyes, felt, glitter, buttons, or other decorative materials
  • Fabric glue
  • Newspaper
Description:

  • Lay newspaper over your work area in case of spills.
  • Pour a bit of paint on a paper plate.
  • Have your child decorate the bag with paintings of witches, black cats, pumpkins and ghosts, using her fingers, handprints or paintbrushes.
  • Add any other designs or decorative items on the bag.
  • Let the bag dry completely - then fill it with treats on Halloween!
 Michelle Activity

                                   10.Egg Carton Goggles (Lydia)



Materials

  • Cardboard egg carton
  • Crayons, markers, paint, stickers...
  • Pen
  • Scissors
  • Ribbon or string



Description

  1. Cut two wells from the end of the cardboard egg carton.
  2. Trim any excess cardboard from the sides.
  3. Make a little hole on the sides with the pen for the ribbon.
  4. Cut using the scissors two circles to do the holes for the eyes.
  5. Ask the child to decorate his mask or goggles using crayons, markers, paint, stickers...




 Lydia Activity