Crafts
Crafts were included mainly to work on Physical Skills and Well-Being
General Learner Expectation The child develops fine motor and perceptual motor skills through participation in a variety of activities.
Specific Learner Expectations
The child:
• develops fine motor skills involving finger speed, arm steadiness, arm and hand precision, finger and hand dexterity, and the manipulation of small materials
• develops perceptual–motor skills through activities involving eye–hand coordination; e.g., looking at picture books, stringing beads, cutting, pasting, drawing and collage work.
General Learner Expectation The child develops fine motor and perceptual motor skills through participation in a variety of activities.
Specific Learner Expectations
The child:
• develops fine motor skills involving finger speed, arm steadiness, arm and hand precision, finger and hand dexterity, and the manipulation of small materials
• develops perceptual–motor skills through activities involving eye–hand coordination; e.g., looking at picture books, stringing beads, cutting, pasting, drawing and collage work.
We had two season where in addition to the regular class student's completed during my Teacher Mentors time they also completed crafts for me in lieu of center time. Unlike centers where everyone was working on a different activity at the same time, we completed these crafts as a class. The two season that we completed crafts were Halloween and Christmas.
Halloween
We completed three crafts as a class during the week before Halloween and two additional crafts on halloween during our class party.
These are:
Witches Hats: students created a 3-D witches hat out of a template.
Frakencelery: students created the character from Veggie Tales' "God is Bigger than the Boogieman". This was done by cutting out "bolts" out of paper, gluing them on to a toilet paper roll that was pre-cut in half, and then drawing on their own face and colouring him green.
Paper Jack-O-Lantern: students were given the choice of dimond or triangles for eyes, and four different shapes for mounth- three various adaptations of the tratitional Jack-o-Lantern mouth and one circle. Students then coloured their shapes either yellow (if they wanted their lantern lit) or black (if they wanted their lantern unlit) then cut and glued them onto an orange piece of construction paper cut into the shape of a pumpkin. Students were also given a rectangle of brown construction paper to gule on as a stem.
Spider Decoration: students were each given one purple side plate with a hole punched at the top, eight strips of tissue paper, six white label sticker dots, a piece of yarn, one black wax crayon, and one glue stick. Students used these materials to create a spider. The yarn was used to hang it, the tissue paper as legs, and the stickers and wax crayon to create eyes and a mouth.
Create a Monster: this was a free creation craft. Students were given scrap paer of various shapes, sizes, and colours, as well as scissors, glue, and pencil crayons, and were then told to "create a monster" as their only direction.
These are:
Witches Hats: students created a 3-D witches hat out of a template.
Frakencelery: students created the character from Veggie Tales' "God is Bigger than the Boogieman". This was done by cutting out "bolts" out of paper, gluing them on to a toilet paper roll that was pre-cut in half, and then drawing on their own face and colouring him green.
Paper Jack-O-Lantern: students were given the choice of dimond or triangles for eyes, and four different shapes for mounth- three various adaptations of the tratitional Jack-o-Lantern mouth and one circle. Students then coloured their shapes either yellow (if they wanted their lantern lit) or black (if they wanted their lantern unlit) then cut and glued them onto an orange piece of construction paper cut into the shape of a pumpkin. Students were also given a rectangle of brown construction paper to gule on as a stem.
Spider Decoration: students were each given one purple side plate with a hole punched at the top, eight strips of tissue paper, six white label sticker dots, a piece of yarn, one black wax crayon, and one glue stick. Students used these materials to create a spider. The yarn was used to hang it, the tissue paper as legs, and the stickers and wax crayon to create eyes and a mouth.
Create a Monster: this was a free creation craft. Students were given scrap paer of various shapes, sizes, and colours, as well as scissors, glue, and pencil crayons, and were then told to "create a monster" as their only direction.
Christmas
Durning the Christmas Season we completed many crafts including:
Alfred the Elf: students were given a template of an elf, they were given one day to colour and the next day to cut and paste Alfred together.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/338192253239525342/
Hand Print Christmas Tree: with the aid of an adult, students trace their hand six times then cut and glue to create the shape of the tree. Students then use scrap paper to create ornaments to glue onto their hand print tree.
Inspired by: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/338192253239525349/
Candy Cane Manger: student colour and cut out a candycane and a baby Jesus laying in straw. The hook of the candy cane then acts as the manger.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/113715959312327055/
Nativity: students use felt, pipe cleaners and beads to create their own nativity scene. See Kids Can Easy Crafts Christmas Crafts by Judy Ann Sadler (pg 24-27, 1959) for directions. (This craft was spread out over three days)
Alfred the Elf: students were given a template of an elf, they were given one day to colour and the next day to cut and paste Alfred together.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/338192253239525342/
Hand Print Christmas Tree: with the aid of an adult, students trace their hand six times then cut and glue to create the shape of the tree. Students then use scrap paper to create ornaments to glue onto their hand print tree.
Inspired by: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/338192253239525349/
Candy Cane Manger: student colour and cut out a candycane and a baby Jesus laying in straw. The hook of the candy cane then acts as the manger.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/113715959312327055/
Nativity: students use felt, pipe cleaners and beads to create their own nativity scene. See Kids Can Easy Crafts Christmas Crafts by Judy Ann Sadler (pg 24-27, 1959) for directions. (This craft was spread out over three days)