Our theme this week is Dr. Seuss. We chose to use One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish for our stART project this week.
My original plan was to use Michelle the Muffin Tin Mom's idea for a project for this book. While I was stapling the fish together for her project, I realized that D is in a minimalist phase and that she probably would not want to stuff enough paper into the fish to make the project work. I definitely suggest checking out her project!
What I decided to do instead was to use contact paper instead. I traced the fish onto the contact paper and taped to contact paper sticky side up onto a cookie tray, and gave D red and blue tissue paper for the fish.
After D was done putting the tissue paper on the contact paper, I cut the fish down and put the contact paper on construction paper.
To see what other people were reading and doing this week, go to A Mommy's Adventure.
I was an Early Childhood teacher for a 3 year old class, and the parents never understood why the year before it was very clear what all of their projects were, and the year I had them, it wasn't as clear. Eventually, they began to see that it was because I let their children do their own work and didn't manipulate it to look like something else. I have to admit it's not as easy to do with my own child, and maybe in part it is because she is only 20 months and needs a little more direction.
What do you think? Please, let me know in the comments. I would love to know as I plan future projects.
