More Octopuses...

One of my faves!  Another great around-the-house item is toilet paper rolls.  Before hand, paint these whatever color you want your octopus to be. 

This activity uses a few different FINE MOTOR SKILLS...

1.  The kids use kid scissors to cut "legs" out of the bottom of the toilet roll.

2.  Then they use their fingers to "curl" the legs (this isn't as easy for them as it sounds.)

3. They glue a fruit loop on the end of each "leg."

4.  Last step, they glue a couple googly eyes on his little face and they each get to take home a pet octopus!

Preschool is a Hoot!

So, if you are a preK teacher, the first thing I suggest you do is solicit your parents to send in their toilet paper rolls.  Because you're gonna want to do this one, too.  

"O" is for owl.

You're gonna need:

toilet paper rolls, tucked in and taped at the bottom and the top.

a small strip of colored construction paper

white circles cut from construction paper for eyes

patterned paper, if desired, cut into wings (tear drop shaped) and into a small triangle for the beak

googly eyes (of course!!) 

Wrap the strip of construction paper around the center of the tp roll and glue in place

glue on the wings first, then the whites of the eyes, then lastly the beak

follow up with the googly eyes

It always cracks me up to see how different the projects turn out with the same supplies and instructions!!

The Octopus

The Octopus

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs

Is those things arms, or is they legs?

I marvel at thee, Octopus;

If I were thou, I'd call me Us. 

Ogden Nash


Letter O and octopuses are always a lot of fun.  We have a couple of different octopus crafts, I'll post the other one soon

The first one is a coloring page/gluing page.

Print out an outline of an octopus...again, you can google "cartoon octopus drawing" and find lots of choices.

You'll want to have them color it first...practice using those muscles that hold a pencil!!

Then give them a small cup of fruit loops cereal.  They glue the cereal onto the legs of the octopus.

Don't forget to talk to them while they work about numbers (how many legs does an octopus have?), about the ocean, ocean life, and of course, the letter "O!"