I'm always looking for new playdough recipes that are simple and don't have to involve cooking. I don't always have access to a stove, and I want my kiddos to be involved in all of the steps. I recently discovered you can make playdough with just two ingredients: icing and powdered sugar. I was pretty skeptical at first--because it doesn't sound like those two ingredients combined would make anything remotely similar to pliable playdough. But it actually works! And it smells SO good! The first batch of homemade playdough I made with icing was strawberry-scented and so … [Read more...]
The Start of a New Big Adventure: Opening a Daycare
If you've been keeping up with my social media, you know that the past few months of my life have been a little... rocky. Everything that I knew has changed. First of all, at the beginning of March, I had a major flare-up with my chronic illness, Intracranial Hypertension/Pseudotumor Cerebri. For much of the month of March, I was almost completely blind. I had to have brain surgery to put in a shunt to save my vision. I was out of work for two months because of all of this. During that time, the church decided to shut the preschool down. It just wasn't profitable for them--and … [Read more...]
Fall Art Activity: Lego-Painted Pumpkins
Happy October! This is one of my favorite months of the year. Just gimme all the hot apple cider and teacher-y cardigans. You know I love process art, and I'm always looking for unique tools to paint with or use as stamps! (Read about why my preschoolers don't do "crafts" here.) We recently painted some pumpkins with LEGOS! Supplies Needed: Pumpkin Template on Cardstock (easy to find on Google) Lego Duplo blocks (you can use smaller Legos, but these were perfect!) Orange & brown paint I gave the students two shades of orange to choose from by adding white paint to … [Read more...]
Why My Preschoolers Don’t Do Crafts
My preschoolers don’t do crafts. You know those cutesy little crafts you see on Pinterest with the popsicle sticks and the googly eyes where everyone’s art is just perfect and looks exactly the same? The ones where the parents are just delighted at how “adorable” it is? Yeah, we don’t do those. Instead, when you look around my classroom, you'll find meaningful process art activities in which the children were given the freedom to make decisions about their own artwork. Process art is any kind of art activity in which the focus is on what the child learns during the art experience, … [Read more...]
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