Hat Day

Our hat day project turned out to be one of my favorite art projects of all time.

This story was the inspiration for the project. I heard it years ago on reading rainbow. It is about a very old lady named Maebelle and her friend, Binky the bird. Binkle tries to pack a suitcase and fly away for the winter. It is too heavy for him and he cannot fly. Maebelle recognizes the problem and asks Binky for some items to help her make a hat for the upcoming hat contest. All the items she needed were in Binkle's suitcase.

We used large coffee filters that are available from Discount School Supply and Lakeshore Learning. We fit them to each child's head during self-selected activity time.

We made a special suitcase of random collage materials, for each child. We told them that Binkle had packed them a suitcase with items for them to use for their special hats.

The children loved working on their hats and they all turned out unique and adorable.

Flag Prints

Money

When talking about money in preschool, we use real money to show the children how important people are on our money. Then the children get to make their own money with really important people!

We gave each child a set of pictures of him/herself. We drew circles to make it easier for them to know where to cut. Simple money templates were set in the middle of the tables and the children cut out their pictures and then glued their picture onto the money. Then they got to trade their money with each other. In the video clip below you will see that they loved doing this.