Fingerprint Turkeys

I originally saw this Thanksgiving craft on Pinterest.  It did link to http://uniquecraft.info but the page says it is currently suspended.

Each of my preschoolers created their own fingerprint turkey card and picked a person to write a thank you to.  Most of my students chose to give their card to someone in their family; however, a few children chose to give them to people at school (e.g. counselor, principal, other students).  

Examples of Thank You's:

• (To counselor) I love you, Ms. _____!  Thank you for playing games with me!
• (To peer) Thank you for being nice and being my friend! Thank you for telling me to tell my mom to come to your house!
• (To mom) Thank you for cutting chicken and rabbits! (We are a small country school...enough said!)

Pumpkin Pie in a Cup

I got this idea from Vanessa at www.pre-kpages.com and decided to use it as a Thanksgiving celebration with my students.  I followed the recipe Vanessa provided but I also wanted a more visual representation that my students could follow.  I created this preschooler-recipe on Publisher and found the clip art on Google Images.  

Pumpkin Pie in a Cup - Recipe for Preschoolers

As a whole group, we reviewed what baking tools we would be using and what their functions were.  We also looked over our ingredients and read through the recipe.  We then split into two groups of 7-8 students with either myself or my classroom aide.  

The preschoolers took turns adding in the various ingredients.  Everyone was given a turn mixing the pudding with the whisk and using the rolling pin to crush graham crackers. 

The preschoolers all agreed that their favorite part was getting to eat the finished products!  We made a few extra cups that we then gave to our principal, secretary, counselor, custodian and lunch lady as thank you's for all the hard work they do.  It was the perfect way to end our week of giving thanks!

A Tuturrific Halloween

I thought it would be fun to post a few pictures of my Halloween costumes.  The first costume I made was for my school Halloween carnival.  The first grade teacher and I had the great idea to come as salt and pepper!  We each made a tutu (25 yd rolls of 6" tulle from the Tulle Source...we used about 5 rolls per tutu).  I found the colanders in the dollar section at Target.  We used the die cut machine at school to cut our letters and used some silver glitter to help them stand out.  These were fun and super cheap!

The second costume I wore was for Halloween/my birthday costume party.  I borrowed some butterfly wings from the preschool and made a tutu to match!  I had the antennae headband from my bumblebee costume last year.  Tossed on some black heeled boots and voila!

Tutus just add an extra dash of fun to any costume!

Up, up and away!

This is the bulletin board I created this year to welcome my new students into preschool!

I made my own balloon stencil on tag board and cut the balloons from construction paper.  I wrote a child's name on each one.  I then stapled white yarn to the wall as the balloon's string.  I made the cloud by strategically scrunching up white butcher paper for a 3D effect.  The bulletin board title was cut on my Cricut using the Cuttin' Up cartridge.

Crafting for the Lil' Lady

A friend at church taught me how to make a diaper cake for my sister's baby shower.  It took us about 2 hours to finish together. It was much easier than I originally thought it would be!

My sister and I worked for an entire evening of watching movies to create this flowing canopy for my niece's nursery.  We slip-knotted the tulle around an embroidery hoop and then wrapped the remaining exposed portions of the hoop with the leftover tulle. We used a glue gun to attach three large silk flowers. 

 

We used ribbon to hang the finished canopy from one hook in the ceiling. 

Tutu Chick!

 My sister's niece came to visit us this summer in Colorado.  Her ballerina shirt was just begging for a matching tutu!  This was sweet little S rocking her tutu at church!  Such a cool chick!

Minnie Hat and Matching Tutu

My sister and I are absolutely crazy about Disney so I could not pass up making this sweet little hat when I found the FREE pattern online.  It was extremely easy and quick to crochet!  It is sized for a newborn.
Unfortunately the original author of this pattern removed it from her blog due to copyright worries.

 

This definitely needed a matching tutu!  I measured the circumference of a newborn sized skirt and cut my elastic 2" shorter.  I cut my tulle in 6" wide strips and then doubled the skirt length to cut the length of my tulle.  Several slipknots later, I had a new adorable outfit for my lil' lady!