Chalkboard Tablecloth

Our new chalk tablecloth. I saw this on someones blog last year and now I can't find it! If anyone knows please send me the link:)

My sister Katrina made this for us. She got the fabric from etsy and lucky her she has a snap press.

She put snaps on the corners to hold it in place.

Now that Winter is almost here we will be spending more time indoors so I can assure you we will be using this a lot!

Oh Martha I miss you!!!

This is totally random I know............... But after I dug out my someday craft book I realized I had a lot of pages riped from the Martha Stewart Kids magazines.

Oh Martha you had such a good thing going. You had me hooked then you left me high and dry!
Anyone out there in the blog world remember these?

I had a subscription and everything! my all time favorite was the Christmas one. I LOVED this magazine! Can anyone recommend a similar magazine for kids?

Things To Make With Juice Lids

I have a bag of juice lids in our craft area that I am always trying to find a use for.




With paint, black foam for the hat, pipe cleaners, buttons, hot glue and a little imagination I came up with this snowman.
He is a great addition to the classroom. The children think he is Frosty the Snowman. Every time we read the book our juice lid snowman joins us.


We also made a matching game. We stuck stickers to the tops of the juice lids. Easy, cheap and 100% recycled. We keep these on our activity shelves and the children use them all of the time.

Dino Stuff

Growing Dinos
I picked this activity up at the dollar store. You just put him in water and watch him grow.
We took his measurements before putting him in the bottle


The children check on him every now and again to see if he is growing. In a few days we will cut him out of the bottle and measure him again.

I found this cute D craft HERE

We also talked about what else starts with D and made a poster to display with our dinos

we don't do too many gluing activities because Jada used to eat it! This time she kept it out of her mouth and really enjoyed getting messy:)

Frozen Reversible Wreath

Frozen Reversible Wreath

I saw this in a Martha Stewart Magazine years and years ago. It was back in the day when she still had a children's magazine. I miss those days! I would get super excited when a new copy would come out. Luckily I saved some of my favorite pictures and put them in my someday craft book.





I hung our wreath on the daycare door so the children could see it everyday.

This is the pretty patterned bottom

When you freeze your wreath you will need to add your string for hanging. I tied mine around an apple slice to keep it in place during the freezing stage

When you take your wreath out of the freezer place the pan in a shallow sink of warm water. You will hear it crackle. This is when you should gently remove the pan from the sink and turn over onto your counter. It should slide right out.

This is the patterned pan I used.

Pretty Orange side???

Or Pretty berry side????


Things I used for my wreath:
water, Sliced apples, sliced oranges, sliced celery and left over Swedish berries from Halloween. I didn't have any cherries and swedish berries were the closest I had on hand.

How to make a frozen wreath?

Arrange how you want your food items in the pan, tie your hanger to an apple slice and carefully place in the freezer. I froze mine for a few weeks only because I forgot about it. I'm sure you could just freeze overnight. I think next year or when this one melts I will add just a drop of red food coloring. Also some cinnamon sticks would make a nice contrast too.

More Dino Activity Trays

Happy Tuesday Dino fans!!!
Here are this weeks activity trays:
Dino egg pouring
I got this idea from HERE

Dino Counting

Washing Dino's

Please ignore the unfinished wall. I'm waiting for hubby to sand so I can get painting.

Dino Color Sort

I also have some Dino science experiments coming up in the next few weeks. If it would stop raining here on the East Coast we can do our Dino bone excavation. Fingers crossed that we can get outside at some point this week:)

Thanksgiving For The American Readers

Canada had Thanksgiving in October but I still feel drawen to blogs that share their teaching aids and creative ideas for this special Holiday. When it comes to Thanksgiving I found it hard to find ideas this year, so I was so excited to finally find a blog that has shared so many great printables. I thought you all might want to take a look at this wonderful post by Musing Of Me. You can check it out HERE.
I know I will be using them for our next Thanksgiving:) Thank you Musings Of Me!