Thing 1 and Thing 2 Hunt

I made these cute Thing 1 and Thing 2 clips today and had to share.  They are just clothes pins that I colored with permanent marker and hot glued on some blue boa.  I had my class go into the hall and I hid these two in plane sight.  Let the kids come back in to find them.  The two that found my "things" got to hide them next.  I had them sit out.  Repeated this process until everyone had found a "thing" and hid them.  Last two hid them and the whole class searched.

I also plan to use these guys all of next month since our theme is Dr. Seuss.  Going to hide them every morning in my room.

Out of the World: Discover the Moon and Space Ships

 Here is my sharing board I put together for our conference next week.  I LOVED how it turned out.  This you I did a space theme.

Aliens Love Underpants Space Ships

Create alien space ships with a simple paper plate and  Q-Tip paint with liquid water colors.  I saw a version of this space ship on Pinterest.  I did my own twist and this is what I came up with!

Directions for space ship - Using a circle cutter, cut a little more than a half circle in the center of an inexpensive white paper place.   Using the same cutter, we cut out our aliens and pasted them onto the plate.  Aliens can be found in the “Downloads and Games” tab on http://www.aliensloveunderpants.com/ or create your own.  Place a thin line of white glue on the edge of the bottom half of the paper plate.  Fold over the rim of the plate  and secure with small binder clips.  These clips will help hold while the glue is drying and also serve as the feet for the space ships.  These were made up in advance.

Decorating our aliens and space crafts – First add eyes.  What alien would be complete without a few eyes!  Add several sticker and/or self stick wiggly eyes.  These are great for fine motor.  Then its time to paint!  Liquid water colors in Styrofoam egg cartons and q-tips works the best.  The kids were encourage to decorate their aliens and space crafts. 

The results were out of this world!

Doodle on the Moon – Fun, simple (and low-ink) printable activity to spark kids imagination to…. a full moon glow!  Put out large moon and let the kids doodle & put on space stickers! 

 

There’s a very big size to print for the full effect, medium size and a one page version for small doodles and journals.

http://www.mrprintables.com/doodle-on-the-moon.html

Large Moon (12 pages, 22 Mb) LTR
Medium Moon (6 pages, 11 Mb ) LTR
Small Moon (1 page, 2.5 Mb) LTR 

Cutting/Fine Motor – Give each child their own moon to cut out to put in their journal.

 

Journals - Paste moons in their journals!  Instruct them to write their name and the date in numbers. Doodle on their moon and add some space stickers.

Alien Buddies App on the iPad 

Have the class line up in a circle with a teacher on either side with an iPad.  Select “Match” and then one of the “Listen” games.  Have the kids take turns pressing the space ship with the speaker.   Then select the correct alien based on what they heard.  Challenge the kids with the numbers up to 50 or ABCs upper and lower case.  

Top off the Day with Mini Vanilla Moon Pies!