* For Q we have done quarters, Queens, and quilts. * Here are some Q ideas: Quarter: Cut out the letter Q and take a quarter stamp and stamp quarter all over the Q. To make a stamp- Take a quarter and hot glue on the end of a round clothespin. Then stamp in the ink. makes a nice print! Older the quarter is- better the pic comes out.. Rubbings of quarters: take a piece of typing paper and place over the quarter and rub it with a crayon! Use both sides of the coin! Queen: Make queens from construction paper. Give each child a square piece of paper. Show the children how to roundthe corners to make a circle for the queens face. Have the children tunr a rectangle piece of colored construction paper sideways and snip V's out of the top to make a crown. Have the children cut stripes of construction paper into small squares and use the small pieces to make hair and facial features. Quiet game: Play the "quiet game." Challenge the children to see how long they can remain quiet. Quilt: give each child a piece of graph paper and have them color each square to make a quilt. Food: Quiche, Quaker oats * We have the QUIET Queen come to visit and she sometimes brings a quilt. We have kids come back after being in the "big" school and ask if the Quiet queen comes to visit. We have a veeeerrrrry quiet circle time. (great for us adults). or how about Question Man/Woman. sort of like the riddler on Batman.? Question marks all over thier clothes. Sounds like it may be great for kids with ""WH" who, what where, why and when. witht he prompt ask a Question?. I just thought of this as I was typing and think I 'll have to do this for my languagae kids, like a jeopardy type thing, Ask a question of Question Woman. * Quills----Take some feathers and sharpen the tip so the children can use it as a writing tool ----- like our forefathers used them Quiet----Quiet Day ----Make it where everybody whispers all day long Quarts---- Everything in science area is measured in quarts---fill quart containers Quest-----Have a day where you are in search for toys, answers, colors, etc.(questions) Quick----Large motor activities are done quickly---running games---Book Quick as a Cricket---- Quack----Day for Ducks Quartet---Do things in groups of fours Queasy---sick to your stomach day ---use in combination with eXam * Make at least twenty cards with questions on them. Some I used were: "Do you like pickles?" - "What is the first letter of your name?" and "How tall is your mom?" Divide the questions in two piles and mark each pile with either heads or tails (Quarter - involves another Q word.) The children then flip a quarter (only one of my children had ever even tried it, so that brought cute results) to determine which pile their question would come from. Those who could not read found the question mark, then had me read their question. * For Q I like to introduce the question mark (?) even to 3 & 4 year olds. We have a question day where the kids and the parents come to class with an item inside of a cube that I have put question marks all over. Then we play 20 questions to guess what the item is. When I read a big book to them they are alert to finding the question mark on the page and they race to see who is the first to find it. They have such a good time with this activity and yet they are learning early about reading and punctuation. •Queens Cut crowns out of construction paper for each of the children and have them decorate with feathers, paint, stickers, sequins, etc. •Q-Tip Pictures Have the children paint pictures using Q-Tips. •Quack Quack Have the children squat and waddle like ducks, flapping their wings. •Quacker Pizzas Give each child a cracker and have them spoon a little pizza sauce or Ketchup on it, add a slice of pepperoni, some cheese and put in the oven for 3 to 5 minutes. • Letter Q- We folded a 12x18 sheet of pastel paper into 16 even sections, then let the kids use Q-tips and water color paints to create a "patch" for each square. The kids had a ball, and the "Quilts" turned out to very unique. •Quarter: Cut out the letter Q and take a quarter stamp and stamp quarter all over the Q. To make a stamp- Take a quarter and hot glue on the end of a round clothespin. Then stamp in the ink. makes a nice print! Older the quarter is- better the pic comes out.. • Rubbings of quarters: take a piece of typing paper and place over the quarter and rub it with a crayon! Use both sides of the coin! •Queen: Make queens from construction paper. Give each child a square piece of paper. Show the children how to roundthe corners to make a circle for the queens face. Have the children tunr a rectangle piece of colored construction paper sideways and snip V's out of the top to make a crown. Have the children cut stripes of construction paper into small squares and use the small pieces to make hair and facial features. • Quiet game: Play the "quiet game." Challenge the children to see how long they can remain quiet. • Quilt: give each child a piece of graph paper and have them color each square to make a quilt. • Food: Quiche, Quaker oats • We have the QUIET Queen come to visit and she sometimes brings a quilt. We have kids come back after being in the "big" school and ask if the Quiet queen comes to visit. We have a veeeerrrrry quiet circle time. (great for us adults). • or how about Question Man/Woman. sort of like the riddler on Batman.? Question marks all over thier clothes. Sounds like it may be great for kids with ""WH" who, what where, why and when. witht he prompt ask a Question?. I just thought of this as I was typing and think I 'll have to do this for my languagae kids, like a jeopardy type thing, Ask a question of Question Woman. •"Quilt", the letter Q stand-by... Have each child make his piece for the class quilt. She used colored constuction paper decorated with crayons, paint, etc. She "sewed" the pieces together with yarn. Her kids were old enough to use a hole-punch on thier projects- the holes need to go all the way around the paper, as close or as far apart as you wish- but she did the holes one inch apart. to help with the spacing, she used a fine-tipped marker to make the pattern for the holes on each child's paper. Now, when you "sew" the pieces together, use a thick, thick yarn and a large plastic needle so the kids can help here, too. lace the papers together, and go around the edges of pieces that are on the outside, too. her dimensions were: five papers acrooss x six papers down. (three classes altogether contributed). it is a huge quilt! our director hung it in the main hallway!! beautiful! • At the same time we were doing quilts we were also talking about good nutrition. I cut squares from an old white sheet and gave one to ea child. (actually they made many prints and we used them for other things also) We used real vegetables to make painted prints onto the squares. (lemons, apples, gr. pepper, cauliflower, broccoli, carrot circles and gr. beans) I sewed these print squares together alternating them with a colored material into long strips, sewed the strips together and added a color coordinated border to make a quilt. I stitched the names of all the children that helped in one coner along with the year. It has been hung on the wall ever since and the kids love finding their name and others names of children that might no longer be with me. •Q-Tip Pictures Have the children paint pictures using Q-Tips. •Quills----Take some feathers and sharpen the tip so the children can use it as a writing tool ----- like our forefathers used them • Quiet----Quiet Day ----Make it where everybody whispers all day long • Quarts---- Everything in science area is measured in quarts---fill quart containers • Quest-----Have a day where you are in search for toys, answers, colors, etc.(questions) • Quick----Large motor activities are done quickly---running games---Book Quick as a Cricket---- • Quartet---Do things in groups of fours • Queasy---sick to your stomach day ---use in combination with eXam •Quill pens - nail file/jar of ink/turkey feathers (I hear these can be purchased at craft stores. Why not try a turkey farm? - there might be bugs in these though (?) use a nail file to file down point of feather and get creative *Also see ideas in these files: Themes, Library Extenders, Any Day /Everyday Activities, and Dramatic Play/Prop Boxes for more activities that may start with your focus letter. * Art: Q-Tip Pictures Have the children paint pictures using Q-Tips. * Movement and Games: Quack Quack Have the children squat and waddle like ducks, flapping their wings.