The Fourth of July is not only the holiday I almost share my Birthday with, but also my favorite summer holiday. Since you don't get the day off of work for another country's Independence Day, we decided to teach the kids about the Fourth and America.
While trying to do some planning for the lesson, I was looking at Pinterest for some craft and/or activity ideas and came upon this awesome activity. It had a lot of things going for it: it was cute and interesting (+1), it was easy enough that I didn't have to make them all myself (+5), it took a lot of time (+10), and it used things I already had either at home or at school so I didn't have to buy anything special for it (+100). Plus, even after we were all finished and the confetti was cleaned up they wanted to do it all over again (+1000).
Now ours may not have looked as professional as the demonstration ones, but everyone had fun, so who cares.
We used toilet paper tubes that we covered in origami paper and used the extra pieces for decor and extra confetti. Teaching Kindergarten and having tons of scrap paper around I knew finding supplies for confetti would be a breeze.
I let the kids decorate them in any color and design they wanted. So with that we got sharks, butterflies and lots of abstract swirls in a variety of colors. It's less patriotic, but the kids really don't care about the American flag, they just want to make it rain confetti.
We didn't use beads and we didn't hang them from the ceiling, but they still worked great, and we had a great time with them none the less.
Since our project took more than one day's worth of free time, they actually pulled their strings on Friday before we dug into my Birthday Cake! Making them wait to pull their strings until after I took this photo was bordering on torture for them.
Even though I wasn't able to capture the confetti falling, I did capture the glee pretty accurately.
Since I have had quite a few requests to make these again, so maybe we'll revive these guys or find a way to tweak them a bit in the future.
From Busan with Crafty Love,
Jenna
While trying to do some planning for the lesson, I was looking at Pinterest for some craft and/or activity ideas and came upon this awesome activity. It had a lot of things going for it: it was cute and interesting (+1), it was easy enough that I didn't have to make them all myself (+5), it took a lot of time (+10), and it used things I already had either at home or at school so I didn't have to buy anything special for it (+100). Plus, even after we were all finished and the confetti was cleaned up they wanted to do it all over again (+1000).
Now ours may not have looked as professional as the demonstration ones, but everyone had fun, so who cares.
I let the kids decorate them in any color and design they wanted. So with that we got sharks, butterflies and lots of abstract swirls in a variety of colors. It's less patriotic, but the kids really don't care about the American flag, they just want to make it rain confetti.
We didn't use beads and we didn't hang them from the ceiling, but they still worked great, and we had a great time with them none the less.
Since our project took more than one day's worth of free time, they actually pulled their strings on Friday before we dug into my Birthday Cake! Making them wait to pull their strings until after I took this photo was bordering on torture for them.
Even though I wasn't able to capture the confetti falling, I did capture the glee pretty accurately.
Since I have had quite a few requests to make these again, so maybe we'll revive these guys or find a way to tweak them a bit in the future.
From Busan with Crafty Love,
Jenna
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