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Here are some ideas to start an interest in the sky and how it changes around us every day.
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -Socrates (470-399 BC) CRAFTS- Discover the difference between day and night. Start with a black piece of construction paper. Glue a blue piece of paper over half of the black page to make one half day and the other night. Cut a small potato in half and wash it. Paint the end of one half yellow and stamp the day with the yellow for a sun. Wash the potato and carve a cloud shape out of the potato end. I found it easier to draw the shape with a pen first and then carve on the lines. Paint it white and stamp around the sun. With the other potato half, paint it white and stamp a full moon. Wash and carve star shapes. Paint white and stamp stars on night sky. Have kids write "DAY" and "NIGHT" on each half or draw dots and have them trace the letters. Display your personal sky. Start with an empty shoe box (any size will do). Put the box on its side and cover the inside with black construction paper. Cover the outside with blue. Cut sun, moon, stars, and clouds out of construction paper. Glue sun and clouds to the outside of the box. String stars and moon up inside the box with yarn and tape. Collect small twigs, leaves, and grass from your front yard and glue on the bottom of the day side. Do the same in the back yard and glue those objects on the bottom of the night side. Make a cloud mobile. Cut out blue construction paper in assorted cloud shapes. Glue white cotton balls onto the paper. Let glue dry and string the clouds together to form a mobile. String up by your bed with a pretty ribbon. Learn how to make the letter C. Draw an outline of a large "bubble letter" C. Paint it blue and then glue on cotton balls for clouds. Make puffy clouds by cutting the same two cloud shapes out of fingerpaint paper. Glue shut around the edges except for a small opening. Stuff it with toilet paper. Seal it up with glue. Dry and hang. Draw an outline of a rainbow for the kids to color in. Go To Page: 1 2 |
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