Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash by Sarah Weeks is a silly book that we love to read over and over again. If you are not familiar with Mrs. McNosh, she hangs up everything within her reach when she is hanging up her wash - the mail, the dog, false teeth, a turkey, and more!
R glued a piece of yarn to a blue piece of construction paper and we used glue dots to attach a few clothespins. R found some stickers of silly things to hang on the clothes line, and then she drew a picture of Mrs. McNosh.
R hung up a dog, a piece of candy, a turkey, and a turtle!
I then had her continue the pattern of clothespins until she used all of them.
Do you do any fun learning activities with clothespins?
9 comments:
Oh, this is so great! We have that same book, and I love the pattern activity you came up with!!! :-) We'll be doing this for sure!
A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E!!!! The only time I have used clothespins recently is when I hung string in James' room and we used the clothespin to attach his artwork to it. It was a great way to add a fun design element to his room, and show off his artwork!
Clothespin bugs is our main thing. I know there's lots of great things, but I can't think of them.
cute clothespins!
love the items she hung up to dry :)
we do all kinds of clothespin games I'll post some or email them to you:)
We have this book too - Anna liked it a lot. Cute activity too to go with it. We have a string in the kitchen for hanging up Anna's "Art du Jour" and she enjoys clipping it with clothpins, but otherwise we don't do much with them.
This book looks fun. I don't have any good games, but there is certainly something very enticing about clothespins for kids. I know Kiddo loves to play around with them. Good for motor skills, too!
We've never read this book. This is a really cute idea to go along with it though.
I've been looking for those colored clips the last few weeks for Jack's trays, where did you find yours?
I use clothespins a lot in my classroom....I teach kids with special needs, and so the Occupational Therapist recommended clothespins to work on pincer grasp and hand strength, but they are great for all kids. We match colors, I have placed stickers on index cards and clip on the correct # of clothes pins OR write a # on each clothes pin and match to the card with the correct amt. You can sequence things, like letters of their name, spell words, match letter to letter or anything to anything by clipping them on....I have used paint stirrers (begged off of a paint store) to write their names on, then had them match the clothespins, clipping them on...it isn't as flimsy as paper and is a little easier. For very young children, just clipping them to a coffee can, around the rim, is a worthwhile and fun activity....then you can store them in the can!!
What great and creative use of clothespins. Not only can you use them in the class room to teach other issues you can use them to teach kids about reducing our use of electricity and fossil fuels by using them to hang some clothes on a clothesline or laundry drying rack.
Did you know that 6-10% of the domestic energy usage in the USA goes to drying laundry.
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