Hands on activities

Personal Placemats (Individual activity). Lesson Food/Eating healthy

Materials: Clear contact paper (many, many uses for this so buy a big roll).  Large sheet of art paper about 12 X 14 inches, paint or crayons.

Description: The child draws/sticks veggie pictures on both sides of the paper (if you a using sloppy paints use 2 sheets and secure them back to back with tape), colour the pictures  and laminate them. 

• Other possibilities: holidays/animals/ colours, older children can use Wrapping paper to make Holiday placemats for everyone in the family !, etc.

Adopted from preschoolrainbow.org

Recycling activity: Bottle Cap Mandala 

(Class activity/Whole school) This is a project where the whole class/school works together to make one giant mandala made out of bottle caps and any other suitable ‘waste’ objects (creating a group mandala is a unifying experience in which students can express themselves individually within a unified structure).

Materials: As many bottle caps as the class can collect. Examples include the plastic caps that come on plastic bottles, some milk/juice cartons, aerosol cans and vitamin jars; jar lids; and the steel caps that come on beer bottles and some glass soft drink bottles. Other small ‘waste’ or recyclable objects that you think are suitable, such as, small yoghurt pot lids, small rigid pieces of plastic, etc.

Description: 1. Choose a mandala design and print it out on a piece of paper so that the whole class/school can refer to it as a guide. 2. Sort the bottle caps and other objects into groups determined by their colour. 3. On a clear area of the floor or ground, build your mandala by arranging the differently-coloured objects in accordance with the design. 

• Other possibilities: beach rock mandala,  sand mandala, personal mandala (incorporate all the things that you find personally comforting like: favorite colors, pictures, items, etc. Gather them together and layout them out in the form of a wheel within the basic mandala structure), etc.

The size of your mandala will depend on how many objects the class/school was able to collect. Ultimately, the mandala will be dismantled. You might want to take a photo of the mandala and the class before dismantling! 
Recycle as many of the objects as you can and dispose responsibly of the rest. 

Adopted from schoolsrecycle.planetark.org

Carla Canencia Jellyfish

Materials: A plastic plate , ribbons of different colors and shapes, glue and cardboard.

Description:

With ribbons of different colors and various types the kids can create the tentacles of jellyfish.

Children below should stick labels onto plastic plate .

Finally, can make the eyes of  jellyfish  with cardboard.

Activity of the jellyfish

Michelle Inga  Trick-or-Treat Bag

Materials:

• Canvas tote bag (sold at local craft stores)
• Tempera paints (Halloween colors)
• Paintbrush
• Paper plates
• Scissors
• Wiggle eyes, felt, glitter, buttons, or other decorative materials
• Fabric glue
• Newspaper

Description:

• Lay newspaper over your work area in case of spills.
• Pour a bit of paint on a paper plate.
• Have your child decorate the bag with paintings of witches, black cats, pumpkins and ghosts, using her fingers, handprints or paintbrushes.
• Add any other designs or decorative items on the bag.
• Let the bag dry completely - then fill it with treats on Halloween!

Halloween candy bag