Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Squishy Bag Craft Tutorial
For the last 2 weeks I have been hearing all about letters. Miss Maddy, now a proud member of the K-4 class, is obsessed with them.
She thinks everything written in handwriting is her name. "Oh! You wrote my name!" she says as she places her hands on either side of my face making me look like chubby bubby. She points them out as we are driving and is constantly making the sounds associated with them. She sings the alphabet 15 -20 times a day and while I know that I should be correcting her - hearing her royally mess it up is my most favorite thing right now. Who needs p and t anyhow?
When I saw this craft tutorial, I knew that this was something that would not only be fun to make but also very helpful in encouraging this love of letters to flourish.
Squishy Bag - for handwriting skills
You will need: 1 bottle of hair gel, 1 re-seal-able bag, 1 bottle of glitter and food coloring.
Squirt entire bottle of hair gel into re-seal-able bag.
Add some food coloring.
The boys wanted to make their own bag too. Turns out this makes a great science lesson.
Look how the food coloring disburses.
I'm no science teacher but could easily explain cause and effect with this simple prompt. I asked them to apply pressure and watch what happened.
Add glitter.
We used the entire bottle. Not so much because that's how we roll...but I figured it was safer to get rid of the glitter quickly. I could easily imagine it spilled in so many other places in my house.
Carefully let out any additional air and seal up the bag. Lay on a flat surface and let you kid squish, squeeze and write to their hearts content. Their tiny fingers will easily be able to move the gel through the bag.
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So they write with their fingers in the squishy bag? Does the gel harden after a while?
ReplyDeleteThat's a brilliant idea!
ReplyDeleteI've always wanted to try this with my students' spelling words - I bet your daughter loved it!!
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