Spring 1st Grade Party

Running a class party for my son's first grade class is defiantly a new thing for me.  It took some brain storming and planning but I came up with a party and wanted to share it.  I'm hoping the kids will have fun and it won't be met with yawns and boredom, but you can't go wrong with lots of prizes and treats, right?

Spring 1st Grade Party

I'm starting it all out but telling the class that I found this basket in their classroom.  I then read the note and it's a fun passing the egg game.  I'll pack the egg with some prizes and fun stuff, which they'll get at the end.  Then whatever color of egg they end up with is the table they'll go to.  I'll have five different activity stations.

 Station one: Easter Bunny Ears

Station Two: Bingo
This was my son's request.  I found some fun Bingo cards at Walmart and some other moms are bringing prizes.

Station Three: Egg Toss
I'll set up a basket, with a line the kids need to stand on and each child will try to toss a plastic egg into the basket.  When they make it, they'll get a prize.

Station Four: Hidden Egg Hunt

Station Five: Easter Egg Cupcakes

Each child will get a cupcake that they get to frost with green frosting.  There will be coconut, dyed green, and some jelly beans to decorate their cupcake.

So there it is.  Hopefully it will be fun and will last an hour :)

New Worksheets

 Five Enormous Dinosaurs

Author Unknown

    Five enormous dinosaurs
    Letting out a roar.
    One went away, and
    Then there were four.

    Four enormous dinosaurs
    Crashing down a tree.
    One went away, and
    Then there were three.

    Three enormous dinosaurs
    Eating tiger stew.
    One went away, and
    Then there were two.

    Two enormous dinosaurs
    Trying to run.
    One ran away, and then there was one.

    One enormous dinosaur,
    Afraid to be a hero.
    He went away, and
    Then there was zero. 

Counting Train Friends

      Place the train tracks in front of your child.  Then put some of the trains, on the tracks and ask how many there are.  Then take some off or add some more and have your child count.  For fun, you could make up a story to go along with the counting.

   

Few Fun Freebies

I've got a few, fun free things that my kids LOVE!

-Home Depot Kids Workshops-
This happens every first Saturday.  You child get a fun project to put together, their own apron and a custom button to put on it.  It takes about ten minutes to put it together.

-Lowe's Build and Grow-
This is another fun free project.  I've actually haven't done this one yet, but pretty excited to try it.

-Lego Jr Club-
A fun, little magazine that comes out every two months.  My boys are really excited about entering their Lego creations into the building contest.

Those are just some I've found, but would love to hear of any others you know of.

St. Patrick's Day Fun

These are my lucky, little leprechauns.  Pretty easy to make.  All you need are my worksheets, Boy or Girl, some crayons, scissors and five brads.  Just a fun project.

 

Four Leaf Clover Find, an easy game, that doesn't take a lot of set up time.  Print out these worksheets: Four Leaf Clover Find and Cards.  Color and cut out.  I made a treasure bag out of a paper bag, mostly because I didn't have a cute pot to put the prizes in.  You then put the clover steps up to the treasure.  Take turns choosing a card and moving steps.  Your goal: making it to the end of the rainbow :)

 

All you have to do to make the Mirror Rainbow,  is have your child paint one side of the rainbow, then fold over and smooth the paint onto the other side.  It's best to use acrylic paint, since it dries slower.

Postage Stamp Project

Brooklyn decided to do an art project with my postage stamps on her shirt.  I was able to salvage most of them.  You have to give her points for creativity right?  I wouldn't recommend using postage stamps in preschool art projects :)

Some Fun Ideas

We had some fun with play dough, pipe cleaners and cookie cutters.  Just great hands-on fun.  I used a recipe from my friend Deedee: 3 cups flour, 1/2 cup salt, 1 t cream of tarter, 2 cups hot water and 3 T oil.  You mix all the dry ingredients, then add the water and oil.  I added some red coloring to make the dough pink and cute for Valentine's day. 

So this was a great idea from my new friend Jamie.  She took a cereal box and made it into a bed for the crayons to scribble on.  You can find the crayon worksheet at: Homemade Preschool Music.




Then, last night we went to Costco and ended up with a pile of random boxes.  My boys stacked them on a stool and then would throw their angry bird dolls to knock them over.  Even my little girl got into and started knocking the boxes over with her cabbage patch doll.  Boxes are the best!

Creative Cat Valentines Game

My first post, pretty exciting!  This is my Creative Cat Valentines game.  Long tittle, but it's a little game where you draw clues and have to either draw, sculpt, or act it out.  When someone guesses what it is, you get the prize inside the envelope.  The assembly took me about two hours.  Of course, it would have been faster if I didn't have an infuriating stapler that I ended up tossing across the room.

These are the worksheets of clues.  You can print them out at: Preschool Art Worksheets.  Color and cut out each of the squares.

The dollar store is a great place to find fun prizes, but watch out, everything may be a dollar but dang, it can add up fast.  I went a little crazy and made little color coded envelopes for each clue.  The first round clues are purple, then red and finally pink.  That way I can make sure everyone gets each of the different prizes.  To save time, you could just have a prize bucket they can choose from.

I reverted back to my fourth grade self and made a crazy box to hold all the valentine clues.  It's made out of a box, obvisouly, construction paper, hot glue and pipe cleaners to hold up the eyes and the hands. A fun touch that the kids really love.

There you go, a party in a box.