Preschool Express by Jean Warren

FLOWER FRAMES
	Give your children small cardboard frames to decorate.
	Set out small felt flower cutouts and some glue.
	Have your children glue the flower shapes around the border of their frames.
	Tape a picture of the child behind the frame.
	Have child give their frame to a parent, or friend.

Variation: Use sticker of flowers to decorate the frames.
Variation: Make frames out of cardboard flower shapes. Cut a picture square or circle in the middle. Decorate with glue and glitter.

FABULOUS FISH

	Give your children medium sized fish shapes (approx. 8").
	Let them cover their fish with water using a paint brush.
	Then, have them paint the fish using water colors. Variation: Make FAT FISH by stuffing and stapling two large fish shapes Variation: Make FUNNY FISH by adding funny features to fish shapes.

FINGER PRINT F's
	Print out large F shapes and give a printed sheet to each of your children.
	Then, give them washable ink pads and have them make finger prints all over their F shapes.

FINGER PAINTING F"s
	While your children are finger painting, encourage them to make upper and lower case F's.
	Let them choose their "favorite" color.

FROGS ON A FENCE

Buy a tablet of small green frog shapes.

Tear off 2-3 frogs for each child.

Give your children 8 ½" x 11" sheets of light blue construction paper.

Next, give them rectangular strips cut from brown paper to make a fence.

Have your children glue the fence on the bottom of their papers and then glue the frogs on top of the fence.

FANTASTIC FANS

	Cut white paper plates in half.
	Let your children decorate them with marking pens.
	Attach a large craft stick to each fan with tape.

GAMES

FEELING GAME

	Have your children close their eyes one at a time and give them an object to feel.
	See if they can identify the object by only feeling it.
	Object suggestions: Small rubber ball, a large crayon, an apple or orange, a rock or small piece of wood.

COUNTING FIVE FINGERS

	Have your children take turns holding up their hands and count their fingers.
	How many do they have on each hand. Five!

INDIVIDUAL FOOT PRINT PUZZLES

	Have your children take off one shoe.
	Then have them stand on a piece of light weight cardboard.
	Draw around their foot with a pencil.
	Cut out the foot shapes and write the child's name on the back of the shape, at the top and at the bottom.
	On the toe part of the foot, print an upper case F, on the heel part, print a lower case f.
	Then cut each foot print in-half with a different puzzle cut across the middle of the foot.
	Let your children practice putting their foot shape back together, then let them take them home. Extension: You could take all the feet puzzles and mix them up, have children try to make name matches by looking at the backs of the feet puzzles.

SNACKS

F SNACKS

	Fruit bars
	Fruit cups
	Finger foods
	Fruit juice
	French fries
	Fish sticks

HOUSEKEEPING FUN

DRESS-UP AREA
Stock your dress-up area with props so that your children can dress up like:

	Fire Fighters
	Fishermen
	Fairies
	Farmers

LANGUAGE FUN

F BOOKS

Make 6 page blank books for your children.

Take 3 pieces of white copy paper and fold them in-half.

Staple the folded edge on each booklet.

Write "My F Book" on each cover.

Have your children look through magazines for pictures of F words to glue in their books.

Extension: After the pages have dried, you could go in and write the name of each F object for your children to "read" to others.

FOLK TALES AND FINGER PUPPETS
While studying the letter F, is a good time to read lots of Folk Tales and make some finger puppets.

Small 1" strips of paper with faces drawn on can be wrapped and taped into small finger puppets.

FOUR FOOLISH FROGS
Here is an F story for you to read to your children.

FOUR FOOLISH FROGS
Four foolish frogs
Flew to the fair.
They fastened on feathers
And flew right there.

They rode on a fire truck
And ate fish and fries.
Then they watched the fireworks
Up in the sky.

They made new friends
But got into a fight.
They lost some feathers.
They were quite a sight.

They hitched a ride
With a farmer that night,
Who dropped them at their forest,
Their home now in sight.

Their mother was furious
Their Father was, too.
Their days of flying,
I'm afraid were through.

Jean Warren

MUSIC

THE F's ARE FLYING
Tune: "Frere Jacques"

F's are fly, F's are flying
Everywhere, in the air.
Frogs and flags and feathers
Flying off together.
What a sight, F's in flight! F's are flying, F's are flying
Everywhere, in the air.
Footballs, fish and flies
Flying in the sky.
What a sight, F's in flight!

Jean Warren

MUSIC TIME

Let your children listen to fiddle or flute music.

WRITING F's

FOG WRITING

	Make gray finger paint.
	Give your children the gray paint and a large piece of finger painting paper.
	Have your children make upper and lower case F's in the fog on their papers.

FAIRY DUST F's

	Sprinkle some baby powder (fairy dust) on a table.
	Let your children make upper or lower case F's in the dust.
	Clean up with a damp sponge.

MOVEMENT

MOVEMENT TIME
Have your children pretend to:

	Fly like fairies
	Fish for fish
	Fight fires
	Float like a feather
	Throw a football
	Be falling leaves

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