A Special Gift - Pay It Forward!

To day I got an amazing package from Karen Green over at Flights of Whimsy as a part of "Pay it Forward".

I was so excited to get the package in the mail - and when I opened it I was so thrilled! The kids will LOVE this kind gesture!

What a great selection of gifts! I can't wait to take it in to school tomorrow to share with my tots!

The topper was this adorable Roo with her flag!

My doggie fell in love with it - I have to keep it out of her reach! LOL

This idea was initiated by Sherry and Donna from Irresistible Play-Based Ideas !

Such a wonderful way to share aspects of different cultures with our children.

Now it’s Kreative Resources turn to Pay It Forward.

So if you would like to play AND are willing to pay it forward from your own blog, then here is what you do.

Leave a comment on this post stating that you want to play, and I will randomly choose three players.
You can be from anywhere in the world!!
The rules are:
• To the three participants I will send a fun package representing my beautiful city, Burlington Ontario Canada but you must be willing to Pay it Forward to three more people.
• Comments will remain open until February 14th 2012.• If you are chosen you will need to send me your postal address so that I know where to send your parcel.
• After you receive the package you will need to Pay it Forward in the same manner on your blog.

We now have our friends to play! Thanks so much for joining! I hope many more people will benefit from your participation!

I Spy Christmas Tubes

I was inspired by Teach Preschools candy cane sensory tubes to make these for my classroom and they were a hit!
I didn't want anything liquid - I have some really rough and tumble boys this year - I was not going to take any chances of slick floors - so mine just have treasures to seek inside much like my Christmas I Spy Jars.
We didn't have the candy cane tubes here so I used these:

There are mini ornaments inside.

They once held horrible jelly beans - so no great loss to dump them. :)

The red bead like filler is plastic melts for stain glass creative.

The kids are having fun shaking them as well - the sound they make is like a maraca. So they are not just a visual sensory toy but a sound toy as well.



Our Christmas Gift & Christmas Bulletin Board

I try to make sure that the parents of the children in my class get a vision of what their child has experienced in my classroom during the school year. So each Christmas and Mothers Day the families get a CD which I create from the photos we take on a daily basis. One of the reasons for this is that children cannot always communicate with their parents what has transpired throughout their day and sadly there are still parents who think we just change diapers and colour! I still get comments like, "Joey was counting to 20 the other day, I don't know where he learned that!" What the heck?!?! LOL Well once they get their CD's those comments go away! So here is what we did this year for our 'Gift'.

Here is the CD in hand stamped CD covers

The ornaments on the tree have pictures of the children on them and LOTS of glitter!

They will go home with the CD for the parents to hang on the tree.

This is for the children - Chocolates and a Christmas pencil with eraser for the kiddies to enjoy!