Flower Month

In conjunction with other activities, children will explore flowers.

Activity ONE -
Children will create "Muffin Flowers".
Using:
# Construction paper
# Muffin tray cup liners
# Glue
# Markers, crayons or paint
Children draw or paint flower stems and leaves on their paper. Students then glue muffin cups in the center of the flower for a 3-D effect.



Activity TWO -
Creating Tissue paper carnations -
1. First you take about 5 to 6 pieces of tissue paper squares, depending on the thickness of your desired depth of the flower.
2. Stack all sheets together one on top of the other.
3. Begin folding your paper back and forth like an accordion or a fan.
4. When complete secure in the middle with a rubber band or twist tie.
5. Now its time to peel up each sheet one at a time. Work from side to side, left to right.
6. Bring all sheets to the middle until your done.
7. If you want the flowers smaller cut the sheets down by length.
8. To make different shapes clip off the tips, only a trim. (triangle, points, wavy, square, etc..)

What's Happening in April

• Child Abuse Prevention Month
• Frog month
• Jazz Appreciation Month
• Garden Month
• Kite Month
• Poetry Month
• Soy Month

1. Holy Thursday/All Fool’s Day /Fun Day /Poetry Day
2. Good Friday /Children’s Book Day
3. Pony Express Day
4. Easter /Golden Rule Week /Ocean Week
5. 
   
6. 
   
7. Day of Hope
8. D.A.R.E. Day
9. 
   
10. Sibling Day
11. Barbershop Quartet Day /Karaoke Week
12. Licorice Day
13. Thomas Jefferson Day
14. Lawyer’s Day
15. 
    
16. High Five Day/ Pajama Day
17. Blah Day
18. Trivia Day /National Park Week/Coin week
19. 
    
20. 
    
21. Kindergarten Day
22. Earth Day
23. Jelly Bean Day
24. Talk Like Shakespeare Day
25. Arbor Day/Astronomy Day /Smell Day
26. Pie week /Playground safety week
27. Morse Code Day
28. 
    
29. Dance Day
30. Honesty Day

Rainy Day Monet

Create a "tie-dye" craft. Do the first part indoors: Grab some coffee filters and have the kids color them with markers (not washable ones), and lay them on a cookie sheet. Then put them outside in the rain and watch the colors run. Bring them inside, and after they dry, the kids can make flowers: Pinch each filter in the middle and twist, then wrap a green pipe cleaner around to make a stem.

Take your kids on a "rescue the worms" walk. (You don't have to touch 'em!) Stroll around the neighborhood and let your kids pick them up off the sidewalk and toss them back into the grass. When you're home, go to Yucky.discovery.com and search for cool info on earthworms.

Do a rainy-day Monet. Head outside with some sidewalk chalk. When it's wet, it works almost like paint!

Have a splash. Take a bunch of bath toys outdoors -- boats, buckets, cups -- and play in a puddle, or find a "stream" at the edge of the street (if you live on a safe one) and race a boat against a lightweight ball.

Make a rain catcher. If you just want to stay inside, have your child decorate a two-liter soda bottle, and measure and mark half-inches with a Sharpie. Then you cut off the top and put it outside a window where you can see it from inside. Set some fun goals: "When it gets to half an inch, we'll play a board game. When it gets to an inch, we'll make cookies..." etc.!

What's Happening in March

1. Pig Day
2. Namesake Day
3. Read Across America Day
4. National Anthem Day /Grammar Day
5. Day of Prayer
6. Newspaper Week
7. 
   
8. 
   
9. Barbie Day
   
10. Mario Day
11. Dream Day / Johnny Appleseed
12. Girl Scout Day
13. Donald Duck Day/Ear Muffs Day
14. Potato Chip Day /Wildlife Week
15. Napping Day
16. Truth Day
17. Saint Patrick’s Day
18. Incredible kid Day
19. 
    
20. Jump Day /Spring Equinox
21. End to Discrimination Day /Folk Tales/Fables Week
22. Forever Young Day /Goof-Off Day
23. Puppy Day
    
24. Chocolate-covered-raisins Day
25. Pecan Day
26. 
    
27. Country Music Day
28. Palm Sunday
29. 
    
30. Doctor Day
    

• Red Cross Month
• Music Education Month
• Craft Month
• Nutrition Month
• Vision Month