Monthly Take Home Projects
Read "Snow Friends." Send home 3 small
paper plates stapled together to form a
snowman. Instruct the children to be very
creative in decorating their snowmen.
February
Valentine Heart Animals
Send home several hearts cut from red,
pink, and other construction paper.
Instruct the children to make an animal by
gluing various sizes and shapes of paper
hearts together. Add eyes, nose, and other
details using a marker.
Some examples of animals to make would
be a bunny, elephant, mouse, butterfly,
fish, and a cat.
Animal pictures from kidsdomain.com
April
Send home a blank kite shape. Have the child cut out his/her kite and decorate
it using markers, crayons, paint, or other art materials. Send long strips for the
kite tails. Also send home 1 inch die cut squares in several colors or squares
for the children to color. The children are instructed to make the kite tail by
gluing the squares onto the long strip. The squares should form a pattern.
Pattern examples:
AB - blue square, green square
ABBABB - blue square, green square, green square, blue square, green
square, green square
ABC - blue square, green square, yellow square
December
