Making chestnut animals: Beyond the limits of imagination.

Letter B, letter C: From Caterpillar to Butterfly.

It's one of the simplest craft, and what is more, it can be used to bring about the integration of students. It all starts with the caterpillar's head. The teacher asks each student to tell others about activities they like, their preferences. Next they take a strip of paper to make "one segment of the caterpillar" that is immediatelly attached to the rest of its "growing" body. The project is also good for practicing making patterns, depending on the context it's used in. 

1) To make the caterpillar's head you may use green construction paper or a paper tube.
2) Each student forms a strip of paper into a circle and secures it with a stapler. Then they slide the next strip through the previous loop and again they staple it (use a stapler, tape or glue).
3) Finally all students decorate the caterpillar together. They need to cooperate with each other, work in such a way so that they don't disturb others, and leave them enough space to work comfortably.

Storytelling: Little Red Riding Hood & The Ugly Duckling (by grade 0a).

The children of grade 0a made puppets on straws. Their task was to cut out the shapes and color the pictures using pastels, colored pencils, paints or mixed art techniques. Finally, they attached straws to their pictures to make puppets.
To make a swan they had to trace their foot prints on a white piece of paper, and cut them out. Then they made a few cuts. In the end, they curled the strips of paper around the pencil to make their foot shapes look like feathers.
They had a lot of fun while painting some leaves! :-)

Storytelling: The Dog & the Cat. Pictures made by grade 0a.