It was great to see everyone back after holiday break and a
few new families. This month's theme was numbers and it turned into a
numbers/ocean theme because I found two craft ideas that I thought were perfect
for the program and a rhyming ocean and numbers book to go with the whole
theme.
We read One Nighttime Sea by Deborah Lee Rose and counted
sea animals along the way. The group enjoyed the pictures and helped count the
creatures with me.
For our first craft, we did a paint-by-number fish using
cardstock and six types of colored paint. Some children freestyled their
painting, but the majority did try to follow the colors for each number.
Our next craft was making an adorable jellyfish with eight
tentacles. The kids added eight colorful pipe cleaners onto their pre-cut and
pre-hole punched jellyfish body. Then, they added beads to each tentacle
depending on how many beads were needed. Some of the group even color matched
their pipe cleaners to their beads.
The group loved these crafts and I had compliments on the
jellyfish, as well as parents saying they would buy their kids some
color-by-number books.
I liked that I was able to incorporate a painting craft
using numbers and how the jellyfish craft helped them work on their fine motor
skills and offered a different craft approach.
Optional Book: Swallow the Leader: A Counting Book by Danna
Smith
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