Easy Easter Basket

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Does your class make baskets for Easter? Try using empty milk jugs. Students can bring them in, or you can ask a local borden milk factory for donations.

Simple Instructions

1. Cut the top front of the container to create an opening. Do not cut the handle so that students can carry it easily.
2. Use construction paper to add the eyes, nose and ears.
3. Use one pipe cleaner. Cut it in half. Bend each piece in half to get the small whiskers.

Meaningful Egg hunt

In the plastic eggs, include a sight word, cvc word or any word with a learned spelling pattern.  After the egg hunt, tell students that they need to go through their easter eggs to find the “magic” word (one of your choice). Whoever has the egg with the target word will receive a small prize, like a special sticker.

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Welcome to Kinder Alphabet

Today, we are sharing some bright ideas that you can use in your classroom. I hope that you have found some useful classroom ideas along the way. Thanks to Shelley Gray for putting this together.

My idea: Easy No Sew Chair Pockets

I have always wanted to buy some chair pockets for my classroom, but they are too expensive. I do not know how to sew, so making my own is not an option. After so many years, I came up with this idea. Use pillowcases! If you use the ones with patterns there will be no need to decorate them 🙂 You can buy them in sets of two, because they are cheaper that way. Or, ask for donations. You can probably even add it to your student’s school supply list. They do not have to be brand new at all. As long as they are clean and gently used, they will work just fine. This is how they look 🙂 Adorable!

How to Assemble

1. Choose a pillowcase pattern that you like.

2.Open the pillowcase and turn it inside out.

3. Now, turn the pillowcase right side out again. Make sure to STOP when you get close to the bottom seam (do not go past it). It will look like you folded the pillowcase in half. This will create 2 flaps. One in front of the pocket and one on the back of it.

4. Finally, open one flap and slip it onto the back of a chair. It fits small and big chairs perfectly. I also use them on the tiny ikea chairs and on my kitchen table chairs. They fit nice and snug and look amazing 🙂

5. Enjoy Your Chair Pockets!
The pockets are deep and have plenty of room for materials. I had to position our books and activities high so that you could see them in the pocket. Go try it. You’re going to love it 🙂

Where to use them

-Student chairs: for leveled readers or student materials.
-Guided Reading table chairs: for dry-erase boards, erasers and markers (one student set per chair pocket).
-Teacher Chair: for Lesson Plan Book or Sub Folder 🙂
-Workshops: for teacher materials.

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