Hi! The new school year is just starting here and my daughter is going to 4 year old Kinder. The teacher asked me if I could do a class with them. Any ideas on what to do? I don't want to do something so simple that they will be done in two minutes, but obviously it will have to be fairly simple. Any ideas?

Here's an idea: Ask the teacher if she teaches around themes. I know when I taught preschoolers this is what we did. We even incorporated cooking well pre-k cooking into some of the lessons and it was always fun. The kids have done bread with their letter shapes, cookies they've decorated their fave was Valentines, we've also made them look like eggs for Easter and drawn faces for bears doggies and the like. If she does do themes get with her and find out out how you can incorporate your lesson into hers. If you need more ideas let me know. Cooking with kids is one of my passions!

HTH

If you are going to give them decorating tubes (HA HA HA) put a twist tie on the back to keep it closed and flowing in the right direction.

Maybe you could sweeze the icing on and let them decorate with candy and sprinkles. How about something with their name, initials or letter of the day.

When our church has a special kids event going on they always do a snack craft. They give all the kids giant sugar cookies and they have bowls of buttercream icing, sprinkles etc sitting on the tables for them to share. The kids smear the icing on with popsicle sticks and decorate to their hearts content. The kids love it plus its not too messy. They put plastic table clothes over the tables so when everyone is done they just wrap it all up and throw it away.

Thanks for the great ideas. I will talk to the teacher and see what fits in with her.

Hi!! Why not let them make buckets of dirt and worms. They would have a great time crumbling Oreo cookies and maybe some graham crackers for the dirt. They could use gummy worms or even roll out some tootsie rolls to make worms. That could be for the boys. You could have some prebaked cupcakes for the girls to put icing and candies on. No matter what you have them do they are going to have a great time.

Lazy_Susan

I would do a cupcake decorating activity.

You could have several different pots of coloured icings. Top them with lots of different sprinkles and glitters and lollies etc.

If you need to make their lesson time consuming you could also get them to fill their cupcakes.....but that would be SO messy.

You could also get each child to do a "show and tell" of their cupcake.

Mmmmm. Cupcakes.

Why isn't there an emoticon that looks like a cupcake?