Eric carle decorations

Word of warning to all of you bloggers. . . Don't use the word BOOBS in your title! I received so much spam and junk from that! I wanted to be funny, but in the end, I learned a lesson. So now you know! Last week I tried an inferring activity that I saw on someone's blog (and I'm so sad that I can't remember who's it was). It was very easy to do and I thought I could do it too. They used pictures from magazines or characters from a book. So I took the idea and tweaked it a bit for me. I blew…

Preschool Toddler classroom: The Very Hungry Caterpillar ceiling decor! Caterpillar made of huge tissue paper poms & food hanging made out of coffee filters painted with watercolors :) by far one of our greatest classroom projects! Tied in to our tods exploring fruits and veggies :)

Eric Carle Tiny seed school display year 1

My Eric Carle book display!

Eric Carle Tiny Seed Bulletin Board

Eric Carle author study bulletin board

The very hungry caterpillar classroom

The kindergarteners created fireflies after reading The Very Lonely Firefly, by Eric Carle. Using their special paper, everyone made one collaged-together firefly. With a little magic (christmas …

Our class created a giant flower based on "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle! #spring #flower #wholegroup #ericcarle #seasidenurseryschool #marbleheadma

"Simplify, slow down, be kind, And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets."...

I did this project with a group of Kindergartners in our co-op as a part of an Eric Carle author study. We spent some time looking through his books, talking about his collage technique using painted sheets of tissue paper, and seeing how he does it in his studio (in The Art of Eric Carle - great book from our library). Then we tried our own version of the flower that grew from The Tiny Seed. First, we needed to paint several sheets of paper. I used acrylic paint on copy paper to have a…