Early Childhood Education-"The art of Mother's Day Surprise in Childcare"

Recipe Card Holder

With Mother's Day around the corner, children in early childhood education, preschool, daycare can get creative and make their mother, caregiver, grandma a very creative Mother's Day Card Holder.

Materials:

• tongue depressors or popsicle sticks
  
• glue
• small paint brush
  
• ribbon, string or wool
• tempera paint
  
• optional decorations: foam shapes, seashells

Directions:
-Start by designing and laying out your tongue depressors or Popsicle sticks.
-Using glue;start spreading; using a small paint brush.
-Set aside to dry
-Paint with a paint brush; using your favorite tempura color

Early Childhood Education-"The art of Mother's Day Poems in Childcare"

With Mother's Day around the corner, here is an easy and quick project to do with your little one. Weather your a daycare provider, preschool teacher or caregiver-simply have the children create a handprint collage and then use this poem to glue on the collage. Adding a small magnet in the back. What a memorable way for mom, grandma to display this art activity....


Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always leave my fingerprints
On furniture and walls.

But every day I'm growing -
I'll be grown some day
And all those tiny handprints
Will surely fade away.

So here's a little handprint
Just so you can recall
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small.

Early Childhood Education-"Benefits of Story-Time in Childcare"

Story time? Is my child old enough? Will my child sit through it? Well-the answer is yes. Story-time is a time and place where one could bring their children to hear stories, through conversations and music, books and flannel stories. As a preschool teacher all of this can and should be done at your center/ location. As a daycare provider; caregiver or parent; one can go to their local library and participate. The story times are offered by age group and are catered for children of that age range. The best way to get involved is by going on the Internet and google story time/library. Story time at the local library lasts twenty minutes and is followed by play. Where the Liberian brings out toys, puzzles for the children and parents to participate. The purpose is to encourage social interacion between the children and caregivers.

Benefits of Storytime

• integrates visual (pictures and words) with auditory (spoken words) to facilitate language learning
• provides opportunities for turn taking
• increases listening and attending skills
• encourages early literacy skills and phonological awareness

"Children not only learn word meanings from listening to adults read to them, but through conversations with them. During these exchanges, children will often hear adults repeat words several times. They may also hear new and interesting words that stick out to them. The more oral language experiences children have, the more word meanings they learn."

Read more at Education

Early Childhood Education-"The art of Mother's Day Flowers in childcare"

Looking for ideas for Mother's Day? Why not make her a simple craft using the following materials at childcare:
-pipe cleaners
-photos of children
-construction paper, scrap booking paper
-glue
-glitter
-scissors
-vase

Once the flower stems are attached, place them in the vase.

Early Childhood Education-"Getting Fresh Air in childcare"

Every child needs fresh air and a place to run around. When children are indoors or at childcare; they begin to get irritated and some even begin having behavioral problems. Creating an outdoor environment for the children can be beneficial for them and us; the caregivers, parents and teachers.
"Kids run, climb, hop, skip, and jump much more in the great outdoors than they do when stuck inside (where there are lots of admonitions to quit jumping on the couch). So scout out some safe outdoor play places, bundle up your child if you have to, and bring along balls and a tricycle or bike with training wheels, and supervise her activities."
Read more at BabyCenter

Early Childhood Education-"The art of potatoe prints in childcare"

Your children in Early Education/Childcare will love making their mark -- with there own potato prints.This activity is also a great sensory project.

Materials Needed:
· 3 large baking potatoes
· Tempera paints
· Saucers (to hold paint)
· Construction Paper
· Kitchen knife (for parent use only)
· Glitter, sequins, etc. (optional)

This art activity can be substituted with bell peppers, tomatoes, apples, lemons and oranges. Simply have the children dip the fruit in the paints, and stamp onto the construction paper.

Early Childhood Education-"Gross Motor Activities in childcare"

Gross motor skills include:

• balance – the ability to maintain equilibrium
• body awareness – for improved posture and control
• crossing of the mid-line
• laterality – awareness of the left and right sides of the body
• major muscle co-ordination
• spatial orientation – awareness of the body position in space and in relation to other objects or people

Several activities include: jumping, hoping, running, balancing, hop-scotch, etc

Early Childhood Education-"The art of making sheeps in childcare"

With Easter around the corner-having your children make these in childcare can be fun and exciting. What a great way to use fine motor skills; to cut and glue the felt pieces on the sheep. Art and math concepts to be creative and counting the cotton balls.

Materials needed:

• cotton balls
• white cocks
• felt (various colors)
• googly eyes
• glue
• scissors
• pom poms
  

By cutting pieces of white socks and stuffing with cotton, children can apply math concepts by counting how many cotton balls they use to form the sheep. Using their imagination-they can create a sheep... Happy Easter