Dinosaurs!

Dinosaurs!

What a great subject to teach children!

Here's some help for you.

Dino Cookies

1 cup icing sugar
1 cup constarch
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups margarine
Mix dry ingedients. Then add margarine. You'll have to use your hands for this! Flatten and cut cookies out using dinosaur cutters. Place on a bookie sheet. Cook for 10-15 minutes at 350 degrees depending on the thickness of the cookies. After the cookies have cooled, they can frost with green frosting, and add green sprinkles!

Dinosaur Chow

1/4 cup dirt (cocoa)
1/2 cup swamp water (milk with green food coloring)
2 cups crushed bones (sugar)
1/2 cup fat (butter/margarine)
2 cups dead grass (uncooked oatmeal)
1/2 cup squashed bugs (peanut butter)
Mix dirt and swamp water. Add crushed bones and fat. Boil about 3 minutes. Add squasshed bugs and dead grass, and stir until melted. Remove from heat and stir until mixture begins to thicken. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper. Cool, eat, and enjoy!

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Exploration...

Exploration...

There is a world to be touched, tasted, and smelled. There are objects to push, pull, and grasp. It is a time for making marks, for clenching the art tool tightly in the fist and moving it round and round, back and forth with the whole arm and body. It is a movement for exuberantly slapping and poking clay or tentatively touching wet finger paint. It is exploring actions and reactions. No matter tha age, all artists need to discover the possibilities and the limintations of their media. To make room for exploration, provide ample freedom and time to explore art materials in the safe, wll organized surroundings.

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Information from "growing artists, teaching art to young children" by Joan Bouza Koster.