March into spring with a batch of paper kites!

Celebrate Passover & Spring with us!

Fun projects for Passover:

Celebrate Passover by decorating a special chair for Elijah!

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Celebrate Passover by making a paper collage Seder Plate! celebr3.gif (26063 bytes) Seder Plate

Share your favorite spring celebrations with shininghours.com!

 

Celebrate Easter with a fanciful Easter Basket!

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Easter Basket

Fill your basket with Easter Treats

Windy days ahead . . . batten the hatches & share some poetry!

Enjoy a wind celebration.

make a kite book!

Enjoy free Butterfly School Activity Sheets featuring the diamond shape.

4 Fantastic Marching Ideas!

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Put on some traditional marching music -- try Sousa, or the score from The Music Man (Seventy-Six Trombones) -- and enjoy!

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Make simple instruments to accompany your marching.
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Decorated paper towel rolls are terrific tooters.  

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Wrapping paper rolls (or carpet rolls) make deep sounding thumpers.   (Trim to about eight inches.)

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Oatmeal canisters are lovely large drums.  

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Small plastic water bottles are easily turned into a set of shakers.  Add 5 pasta to one, 15 to another and 40 to a third!

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Make a special outfit to celebrate a musical month.  A decorated paper bag makes a great marching outfit or transform an old towel into a cape! 

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Make a musical parade around your home.  Record your March marching moments with a camera, cassette recorder or video camera! 

Sing-a-long windy list:

Let's Go Fly a Kite, Mary Poppins

Wind Beneath My Wings, Bette Midler

Blowin' in the wind, Bob Dylan

Running against the wind,  Bob Seger

The Autumn Wind, Pete Seeger

Colors of the Wind, Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz 

Dust in the Wind, Kerry Livgren

Enjoy windy day stories, like Winnie-the-Pooh's Blustery Day!

more great books in reading

Christina Rossetti
Who has seen the wind?

Who has seen the wind?
  Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling
  The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?
  Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
  The wind is passing by.

excerpt from A Windy Day
by James Whitcomb Riley

The dawn was a dawn of splendor,
And the blue of the morning skies
Was as placid and deep and tender
As the blue of a baby's eyes;
The sunshine flooded the mountain,
And flashed over land and sea
Like the spray of a glittering fountain.-
But the wind-the wind-Ah me!

 

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