This week we explored the Eiffel Tower!
We started with our pipe cleaner Eiffel Tower:
- Take four pipe cleaners (your choice of colour) and twist them together at the top. May need to fold them over at the top twist to keep them together.
- Take another pipe cleaner and wrap around the four legs, starting around the middle of the tower. Works best to loop the extra pipe cleaner around each leg once, then pull it around and continue onto the next leg.
- Take another pipe cleaner (may take two more, depending on the width of your tower) and wrap it around between the middle and the bottom. Use the same steps as above.
- Bend the bottom of each leg to make "feet" for the tower so it is better balanced.
Next we made our France flags. The kids drew their flags, cut them out and glued them onto their choice of construction paper, then found some foam letters to spell their names.
After the flags, we played a few rounds of Simon Says. The kids were pretty good at listening to Simon, and ended up swapping with each other by saying, "Simon Says, you're it!" We got some physical activity playing this game, as one Simon had us run around the room three times!
With twenty minutes to spare, we made some Twizzler Eiffel Towers. These didn't work very well, but the kids had fun trying.
I reminded everyone as they left to get their reading passports stickered and to fill out a ballot for the prize draw that week. We draw for prizes every Friday at 4:00.
