What's Purim without a Megillah, right?

Here are 2 options for Megillahs with a simplified version of the story. Not what you're looking for? You can email me using the contact form, and I may be able to help you out.

The first Megillah is entirely photo scenes, and the second megillah is about 60% gluing activities, and 40% pictures. Both options are available to download here.

You will need the following costume items for the pictures:

King's crown
Tiara
Scepter
Girl's Dress Up- a lot! :)
Haman's hat- or a Pirate hat
2 soldier hats
Kippahs and hats
Torahs
Tea Set/Play food
Balloons- optional
Rocking Horse
Any other fun royal accessories

You can view what each photo page should look like by clicking here.

Happy Purim and Happy Posing!

A great way to send Chanukah greetings to loved ones, particularly grandparents, is by mailing out a great themed picture! Kinda like the Fall picture which can alternately be used for Thanksgiving, here's  a great Chanukah photo!

Set up a Chanukah display table with a Menorah, Dreidel, Chocolate coins, etc. If you don't have one yet, Kidcraft makes a great set that you can get here. Take a photo of each kid either holding the sham ash to the candles, or just smiling with the set, and then frame it! Cut a frame from craft foam. Make sure you cut a 1/4 inch smaller than the photo size you'll be printing so that the photo has something to stick to. Then, decorate the frames with Chanukah Foam Shapes! If you don't have Chanukah foam shapes, use regular foam shapes or other flat materials, just beware that if you need to glue the materials down, you'll need to use tacky glue, as opposed to the regular school glue.

Mail the photo frames to a grandparent or parent for Chanukah! I like to do this during free play for a couple consecutive days so that kids can make 2 for both sets of grandparents.

Fall is here, though if you're on the East Coast like me, you're probably rethinking the fact that you didn't start teaching Winter yet  :)  One thing that I love to do for each major theme is set up a photo station where I can take a cute photograph of each child and mail them in a card that the kids make for "Season's Greetings". Here's what I did for the Fall- Most nurseries have the hay bales available for sale pretty inexpensively- these smaller ones cost me $6 a piece! Plus, they had the corn stalks that you see in the background lying around, and the owner gave them to me for free. The Indian corn is from the nursery as well, though some boutique style grocery stores will carry that, as well as the pumpkins and squash.