*Bats at the Beach* by Brian Lies was our story this week, but I don't think the kids were able to focus on it. The weather was beautiful, we had the Creative Arts Playgroup outside...which distracted us from the story and our artwork. I think the chickens in our backyard are just too novel! It was a valuable lesson for me. When working with the younger ages, I should either: 1) Do the story and art first and then go outside, or 2) use the distractions of the outdoors in our art project somehow. For our art, I cut up an old loofah. Laying a bat shape on a blue piece of construction paper (like the background in Lies' illustrations), the kids used the loofah to paint around the bat. This idea came from Mom to 2 Posh Lil' Divas (http://www.momto2poshlildivas.com/2012/10/spiders-and-bats-in-preschool.html).
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