Today we got to play with airplanes. We made a craft, had a snack, and did a science experiment.
My first Airplane Ride by Patricia Hubbell
Music: I’m a Little Airplane
written by Leanne Guenther
tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”
I’m a little airplane, way up high,
(Hold hand up to forehead to shade eyes looking into the sky and point with other hand)
When the pilot tells me, I’ll come down,
(Hold hands over both ears like you’re holding the radio headphones pilots wear)
Swooping and gliding, to the ground.
(Hold arms out like wings and spin in a circle, then kneel on the ground)
- Whipped Cream
- Pretzel Sticks
- Striped Keebler Cookie
- Place the peeled banana on a plate. Add apple slices for the wings.
- Stick a striped Keebler cookie in the back of the banana for the rudder.
- Place 3 pretzel sticks criss cross in the front for the propeller.
- Place Cherrios along the banana for the windows.
- Add whipped cream clouds to dip the fruit and cookie in before each bite.
Preschool Airplane Craft
- Blue Paper
- Cotton Balls
- Craft Sticks
- Give the children two wooden craft sticks.
- Let them color the sticks any color they choose.
- Glue the sticks together, one on top of the other, to make an airplane.
- Next, glue the wooden airplanes onto blue construction paper.
- Add cotton balls that can be glued on as clouds.
- Card Stock
- Family Pictures
- Cut out an airplane shape from the card stock.
- Cut out faces from family pictures.
- Child names the family member as he glues them onto the airplane.
- Run the string though the straw and tie it to the posts on 2 chairs and pull the chairs tight.
- Tape the balloon to the straw and tape the airplane to the balloon.
- Blow up the balloon and pull it to one end of the sting.
- Let it go and watch the airplane fly.
T did page 53 in his A Beka Nursery Arts & Crafts book.
- Graham Cracker
- Peanut Butter
- Place lots of peanut butter into the celery.
- Place a toothpick through the bottom of the celery and add a grape to each end of the toothpick.
- Place a long side of the graham cracker over the celery and grapes.
- Tape Measure
- Create a few different paper airplanes. focus on the size of the plane (large, medium, small), weight (light or heavy), and wing structure (long and thin, short and wide, big like a butterfly, etc.)
- After you create a few different types of paper airplanes have the child choose one to start with.
- Tell about the size, weight and wing structure of the first plane and then predict how far it will fly, and record the information on your chart.
- Fly the plane and measure how far it went, record your information.
- Continue with the other paper airplanes recording all of the information.
- Which one went farther, what made it fly the farthest what kind of size, weight and wing structure did it have?
Transportation Unit Study