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Spring Activities Tissue Paper Flowers Materials: Procedure: colored tissue paper, wire or pipe cleaners, green florist’s tape (optional) 1. Lay out two to four sheets of tissue paper, aligning the edges. The top most sheet will be your center; the next sheet will surround the center, etc. 2. Fold the paper accordion-style. Twist your wire or pipe cleaner around the center of the folded paper (see Diagram A), to form a stem. Make sure the color you want in the middle is facing up. Diagram A 3. Pull the top layer of paper up out of the fold, making a ball in the center, then squeeze this together. Then pull out all layers (as if peeling a banana) and scrunch them as desired. Shape your flower as you like! Try this: Or this: Cutting Line for Rounded Petals Cutting Line for Pointed Petals Wind Chimes Materials: scissors, clear plastic lids, exacto knife, hole puncher, fishing line, stick, jingle bells Procedure: 1. After cutting the rims off of the plastic lids, cut out seven (or as many as you like) leaf shapes. You can also create “veins” on the leaves by lightly scoring the plastic with an exacto knife. 2. Punch a hole in the top and bottom of each leaf, and then tie a 7-10 inch long piece of fishing line to the top of each leaf. Holding your stick horizontally, hang the leaves evenly spaced. 3. Using shorter pieces of fishing line, hang a jingle bell from the bottom of each leaf. Seasonal Activities 4. Cut a piece of 6-8 inch fishing line for the hanger. Now tie each end of the line to the stick. 36
Spring Games Materials: prepared “hunt list”, bag for each team Players: small to large groups How to Play: Prepare the “hunt list” by writing down nature objects in your search area (for example, you may write, “Daisy, Moss, Bark, Rocks, Maple Leaf, etc.”). Make your list as long and as specific as needed, depending on the age group of the players, and the time available for “hunting”. Divide into teams or go as individuals. Each team should have their own “hunt list” and bag to collect their treasures in. Searchers should then go out and retrieve the items on the list. The first team to collect all of the items and then return to the starting point wins! Stealing Pollen Materials: none Players: four or more players - the more, the merrier! Nature Hunt How to Play: Choose one player to be “The Flower”. The Flower will find a base that is neither too big, nor too small. The Flower must have one part of his/her body touching the base at all times. The boundaries for the game should be set so that the Flower is able to see all four corners. There should also be a place outside of the boundaries designated as the “Bee Hive”. The Flower will close his eyes and count to twenty, while all the other people -- “The Bees” -- hide within the boundaries. When the Flower opens his eyes, he will name all of the Bees that he can see (for example, he could say, “Billy behind the fence,” or “Brian beside the shed”). If a Bee is called, he has been caught and must return to the Bee Hive. If the Flower cannot see any more Bees, then he will call out, “Little bees, little bees, go away; please don’t take my pollen today!” Then he will close his eyes and count to five. While the Flower has his eyes closed, the Bees that are hiding will come a little closer, and find new hiding spots. If a Bee thinks he can reach the Flower’s base before the Flower opens his eyes, he can try to make a mad dash for the base, thereby stealing the pollen. The Flower will continue in this manner until all of the Bees are either caught and sent home to The Bee Hive, or safely stealing pollen from the Flower’s base. The last Bee to safely reach the Flower’s base will become the Flower in the next game! 37 Seasonal Activities
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents Illustrators and
Page 5 and 6: Illustrator Barbara Cooney Palmer C
Page 7 and 8: Illustrator Blair Lent Title of Art
Page 9 and 10: Illustrator Symeon Shimin Leonard S
Page 11 and 12: Teacher Planning Form Name of Artis
Page 13 and 14: The Art of Looking at Art Meaningfu
Page 15 and 16: 3. MEANING: The purpose of the work
Page 17 and 18: Book Awards The Caldecott Medal: Th
Page 19 and 20: Related Activities Mary Azarian, A
Page 21 and 22: David Diaz, Wilma Unlimited: How Wi
Page 23 and 24: Yoshi Kogo, A To Zen Suggested Acti
Page 25 and 26: help them to do this. For instance,
Page 27 and 28: Art & Language Connections Gallery
Page 29 and 30: “30 Second Look” Classroom Use:
Page 31 and 32: Take an Art Medium Scavenger Hunt L
Page 33 and 34: What Was Your Favorite Now that you
Page 35: Celebrate Art Outdoors Seasonal Act
Page 39 and 40: Summer Wet Sponge Relay Octopus Gam
Page 41 and 42: Fall Games Materials: none Players:
Page 43 and 44: Winter Games Snowball Toss Material
Page 45 and 46: Glossary of Art Terms Acrylic: A sy
Page 47 and 48: Artist Biographies
Page 49 and 50: Harrison Cady (1877-1970) Harrison
Page 51 and 52: Barbara Cooney Ms. Cooney was born
Page 53 and 54: Laura Dronzek Dronzek has worked as
Page 55 and 56: Syd Hoff Syd Hoff grew up in New Yo
Page 57 and 58: Yoshi Kogo Yoshi Kogo was born in J
Page 59 and 60: Fred Machetanz After graduating fro
Page 61 and 62: Evaline Ness Evaline Ness never tho
Page 63 and 64: Vicky Ramos Vicky Ramos was born in
Page 65 and 66: Gustaf Tenggren (1896-1970) Tenggre
Page 67 and 68: Suggested Bibliography Cummings, Pa

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