Use your windows for this fun holiday idea!
One of the things I love about the holiday season are all the symbols of the holidays. We spent time tracing many different holiday symbols with the help of the lighting from our big windows…
Around the classroom, we have lots of windows which is wonderful for letting in natural light but it also means we don’t have much wall space. So to use the windows as part of our learning environment, we created a set of holiday symbols by printing simple shapes on sheets of overhead projector film…
A great way to explore basic shapes
Another wonderful aspect of holiday symbols is that you can make many of them with the use of very basic shapes like squares, triangles, stars, and rectangles which gives us lots of opportunities to recognize and talk about the basic shapes that work together to form each of our holiday symbols…
The shapes were taped up to our windows for the children to stop by throughout the day and trace. We set out thin paper and markers for the children to use as they wished…
The children were invited to explore the tracing process in several ways. One way was to simply trace a shape and another way was to overlap the shapes as they tried tracing to see what the result might be…
The children were welcomed to tape their paper over the drawings but most of the children preferred to hold their paper with one hand while tracing with another which can be very challenging to do…
Add some watercolor
For those who wished to paint their tracings, we set out watercolor paints for the children to use…
Some of the children decided to give the water paints a go while others were satisfied just with the tracing process…
Of course, window tracings can be done all throughout the school year and do not have to be just holiday shapes so don’t get stuck on the idea that this idea should be only a holiday idea. Any kind of simple shapes you tape up into a window will be interesting to the children…
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