Jennifer's Make and Take for September.
Supplies for the Make and Take:



Just an old popcorn tin, a 1/2 inch dowel, colored folder, sticky backed vel-cro, index cards, and magnets. The magnets, vel-cro, and dowels were all in the craft section at Wal~Mart.


Making Words File Folder



Open the folder so that it is flat the long way. The part closest to you, the bottom portion, Place three equal lengths of sticky backed vel-cro across the bottom part of the folder.(I put the scratchy side on the folder. I would rather the kids hold the soft part.) Horizantally. On the top part of the folder, place your two snack sized zip bags in opposite corners. The bags are for the letters that you made.

Either write with your markers or print out on cardstock from your printer, letters of the alphabet. Use blue for consonants and red for vowels. Put small amounts of vel-cro on the back. My letters are about 1/2 of an inch. I used my scrapbooking cutter to make them small and even.
Optional: You could place a bag on the outside of the folder and put words in there that you want your kids to spell. You could have them walk around with the folder and spell what they see. They could be spelling words. This is a base for the teacher depending on the age you teach.

Kite Popcorn Tin




The first picture is where I got the idea. The second picture is how I made mine.
Directions to make: Lay your paper flat. Put your tin on its side and roll it along the paper while dragging a pen beside it. This is to make the template for the outside of the tin. This is the sky. Make some clouds and some other background.

Next make some kites out of construction paper. (Depending upon whether or not you have a die cuts.) Glue to paper.

Some Ideas: You can program the kites now or leave it until after you laminate it. One idea is to program the kite with colors and color words. Another would be number words and numerals. Another would be upper and lower case letters. (Just a tip: Someone made this and had the numerals on the kites and they had the kids attach the number of ties to that kites. You need a bunch of magnets!!!!!!!)

You now need to make ties for the kites. Make them all different colors. Laminate the ties. Attach the magnets to the back of the tie.

Everything that you need for this type of game is inside the tin.

Pointer





Use a garden glove and stuff it with batting. Hot glue a pointer/ dowel inside. Tie it shut with ribbon. Place a ring made from a pipe cleaner to the fingers. Hot glue the pinky, ring, and middle fingers down to the palm. Stuff the pointer and thumb with batting. This is a pointer for pointing to pocket charts or wall charts.

If you have some ideas that go along with any of these activities, email me and I will add them to the page.


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