Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Music for Learning Recommended Reading Activities & Curriculum Arts & Crafts Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! We'll send you regular emails filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now   ACTIVITY Nature Wreaths By Debbie Butters An Activity for Preschoolers Children use their imagination and creativity as they make these Nature Wreaths Curriculum Area Dramatic Play and Art Before You Start Talk to the children about the different things (such as: grass, leaves, sticks, rocks, acorns, etc.) that they might see all around them if they went camping or if they went for a walk in the woods or backyard. Let's Begin 1. Give each child a brown paper bag. 2. Take a group of children outside to look for and collect some of the things that might be found if they were camping. 3. Once back inside, provide each child with glue, glitter, and ribbons. 4. Help the children to glue the things they found outside, as well as the glitter and the ribbon to the paper plate to create a Nature Wreath. Furthermore If weather is not permitting, or if going outside to collect sticks, etc. is not an option, collect these things yourself the day before and bring them into the classroom with you when you introduce the activity.   Paper plates with the centers cut out to form wreaths Glue Ribbon Glitter Small brown paper bags Articles and activities listed on this website may be printed for single use. No article or activity may be duplicated or distributed in any form, in whole or in part, without permission from the publisher, Excelligence Learning Corporation. Contact Permissions Department.

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