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Washi, Painter’s and Duct Tape Crafts and Activities

July 1, 2015 By Deirdre

There are so many ways to use tape to create boredom busters with and for your kids. There are so many kinds of tape that can be used to create them. Today I am going to washi, painter’s and duct tape crafts and activities that were created by team of bloggers that hosted the Craft Closet Boredom Busters event last week. Many of these activities are from the bloggers archives. I loved searching their sites to find them. I think you are going t love them

Duct Tape Crafts, Activities, and So Much More

Duct tape light sabers from Frugal Fun for Boys

Duct tape counting stars from The Educator’s Spin On It

Duct tape wallet from Frugal Fun for Boys

Floor Tape Letters from I Can Teach My Child

Floor tape uppercase and lowercase parking lot from I Can Teach My Child

Birch tree painting by The Educator’s Spin on It

Tape Cities with LEGOS from Toddler Approved

Miro inspired painter’s tape art from Toddler Approved

Patriotic Washi Tape Wood Bracelets from Mama Miss

Pop Rockets Kid’s Science Experiment from Playdough to Plato

Tape Rocket and Magnetic Astronaut found right here on JDaniel4’s Mom

Tape Sight Word Web found right here on JDaniel4’s Mom

Here are a lot more ways to use tape:

19 Ways to Use a Tape Learning Maze found right here on JDaniel4’s Mom

If you try any of these, please stop by and leave me a comment telling me how it went.

Fine Motor Skills: Magnetic Astronaut and the Tape Rocket

June 25, 2015 By Deirdre

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We love to do learning activities with tape at my house. There has been a fire ladder, set of numbers, and mazes in our main hallway made of tape. Recently I placed a painter’s tape rocket ship on our refrigerator along with an astronaut magnet I made. My and I worked on several learning skills with them including fine motor skills.

Here are the skills:

eye hand coordination
positional words
tracking right to left
storytelling

Here is how we worked on those skills:

Eye Hand Coordination

My son had to focus on the tape as he moved the magnetic astronaut on the tape that created the outline of the rocket ship. The goal was to keep him attached to the rocket so he wouldn’t float around in outer space. It was easy to keep in on the shop in the large straighter areas. The tight corners took some planning.

Positional Words

We have been talking about positional words for awhile. In fact we did an activity with water and a straw last summer. The goal was to put the astronaut where each positional word that was called out asked him to go. We used the words over, under, inside, outside, left, right, beside, beneath, and next to.

The astronaut was moved around the refrigerator to display these words for the rocket and the stripes near the base of the rocket. Sometimes he was hung on the refrigerator hanging right side up and upside down. My son kept it fun and exciting.

Tracking Right to Left

The horizontal lines were placed near the base of the rocket to practice tracking. My son has it down, but it didn’t hurt to throw it in to the activity. He used his finger to track rather than the astronaut.

Storytelling

You can’t have an astronaut and a rocket on your refrigerator and not talk about it. My son and I took turns making up stories about the astronaut. Each story needed to included the following:

Who- The astronaut’s name
Where- The location the rocket is heading to or from
When- The astronaut traveled in the past, present or future
Why- The mission or reason for the trip
What- Things that happened on the trip

We have had a great time telling stories during snack time and summer homework time.

How I Made the Magnetic Astronaut

I traced a clip art picture of an astronaut I found online onto two pieces of sticky backed foam to make ours. Two flat magnetic strips were place between the pieces of foam. Then pieces of Darice Sticky Back Foam Sheets, 9 by 12-Inch, 12/Pack were cut out for his boots, face shield, and collar.

You don’t have to have magnetic astronaut to do this activity. An animal magnet or a picture of your child with a magnet glued to it would be just as fun.

I am participating in a fun series this week with awesomely talented bloggers called Craft Closet Boredom Busters. Each day I will be sharing a fun activity you can do with your children along with links to the other bloggers ideas!

Here are some of the wonderful idea being shared on other blogs:

Giant Color Wheel Collage on The Educator’s Spin On It.

Paper Rolls Animals on Frugal Fun for Boys

Craft Stick Puppets on Toddler Approved

Cardboard Crafts- 10 Pretend Tablet Games

If your children create tape rocket, please share a picture of it with me onFacebook.

Math Kids- Hallway Numbers

August 1, 2013 By Deirdre

We don’t have a lot of room in our house to spread out and work. The hallway that leads from the front to the back of our house is one of the few spots. I would like JDaniel to be one of those math kids that loves numbers and exploring them.One morning while he was finishing his breakfast I grabbed a roll of masking tape and headed into the hallway. I had know idea how I was going to form the numbers with tape. The plan was just to make the numbers from 0 to 9 with tape.

I got to the number 4 when he looked in to see that I was doing. We were both excited about how they were turning out. I was thrilled that we both recognized what each number was supposed to be.After he finished breakfast, I explained some of the ways I thought we could use these numbers. There were ten ideas I came with that I will share with you in a minute. I would like for you to put on your thinking caps and see if you can help me come up with more. We are likely to have them on the floor for awhile and I would love the use them a lot.

Here are the ten math kids activities that I came up with:

Blow a cupcake liner down the number line with a straw and count as it lands on each number.
Blow a cupcake liner as hard as you can down the number line and shout out the number it lands on.
Drop a cupcake liner from the stairs above and tell the number it falls on.
Toss a beanbag down the number line and whisper the number it lands on.
Toss a bean bag over your shoulder and see what number it lands on.
Hop down the number line and say each number as you land on it.
Trace the inside of the numbers with highlighter to work on number formation.
Roll a toy car in each number and count up to that number. ( This won’t work for zero.)
Work on the concept of length. Lay objects over the numbers starting at one and see how long it is.
Pick a number and fill it with objects. Count how many objects will fill that number up.
Practice skip counting by jumping for a number.