Integrating Arts and Writing: Paper plate bunny

A tried and true classroom craft can now come to your home- The paper plate Bunny. So simple. So perfect. So easy.

You can add many things to this craft. Instead of wiggly eyes, you can add jelly beans. Sometimes the bunny needs a little bit of hair, why not put the multi-colored Easter grass from the basket? There is always too much in the package anyway. For the whiskers-try licorice candy. Before you know it this piece of art has become edible. What other ideas can you use to turn this into edible art? Then, of course, when the bunny is complete, write a story about your new friend. Don't forget a beginning, middle, and end, whether it be only 3 sentences your child can write, or 10.

Integrating Holidays: Easter

We all love Easter and what comes with it. In the book stores you can find all sorts of books on the topic. Here are a few more to read with the family as you prepare for the Spring time Holiday. A fun lift flap book to find the eggs. Explains all the ins and outs from receving the Easter basket, church, egg hunt, to a picnic A board book for babies:

Integrating Holidays: Rhyming word eggs

Ever wonder what you can do with all of those plastic eggs you buy? Turn a few of them that don't make the Easter Basket into rhyming words for those emergent readers.
1.Pick words with an initial letter that would go with the ending. Use words that your child might be learning in school. Ran Rat Fat Fan Big Pig
2.Put the word families on the same color eggs.
3. I used the larger and smaller eggs. Once the eggs are placed together, have your child put the smaller eggs that goes with the family inside.
Enjoy!
FYI-You can clean off the marker with nail polish remover.