Tissue Paper Flowers

Sheets of colorful tissue paper and pipe cleaners.

Folding the tissue paper like an accordion.

Twist the pipe cleaner around the center, leaving a "stem".

Snip the corners and open the tissue paper.

These are the beautiful flowers that will be centerpieces for our Mother's Day tea!

Our Flower Shop

Karen, from Pre-Kinders, inspired me to put together a flower shop in our house corner. After looking at Karen's again, I realize I want to collect more items for this in the future, but for now this has been fun and meaningful for our 3's. We even had one preschooler using the play phone to call the "Pipe Man" because he needed to bring more water to the flowers. Shelling edamame was fun, too. (Notice the play cell phone. He insisted he needed to keep it close by in case he got a phone call. They model what they see, don't they?) Thank you, Karen, for this idea, and I'm excited to add more materials.

Easter Eggs After Easter

Even though Easter is over, I decided to leave the plastic eggs out another week. I knew it would be more meaningful to them now that they've experienced at least one egg hunt, and many had them in Easter baskets. I placed the eggs in baskets in the house corner, along with empty egg cartons. As soon as the children arrived this morning, several headed straight for the eggs and announced they were going to have an egg hunt. They hid eggs for each other and found them. Over and over again. And then carried the eggs around the classroom in little shopping baskets. They shared stories of what they did yesterday - Grandma and Grandpa, breakfast at a restaurant, baskets left by the Easter Bunny, church. Their experiences, their stories. All morning. 

I'm sure the eggs will be a favorite all week!

Easter With the 2's Class

Easter Baskets, filled with a few goodies to take home.

With 2 year olds, I've realized they just love finding the eggs and putting them into one big basket. I did not even have them carry their own bags around. The fun was to keep finding eggs and filling the basket. My co-teacher and I would keep hiding more eggs as they found them! I think we could've done this for a long time if we had more hours to our morning!

And then I held up a bucket and they tossed the plastic eggs inside. 

Over and over again.