Tuesday, July 17, 2012

We are the Monsters!


Hello! I have been working for the past four years with the Boy's and Girl's Club. The hardest part I have experienced is planning. So to help those of you planning activities for any children, I am going to share what I have been doing.
A quick explanation about our program: the Boy's and Girl's Club I work for has a summer program which runs from early June to late August. We are open from 8:30 am to 2:00 pm. From 2:00pm to 6:00pm is our open rec time (which also runs through the school year as an after-school program). This is called the juniors program, but there is also a teen program that runs from 3:00 to 7:00 every day (including summer and school).
Every summer I give my group a team name. This year (obviously) we are the monsters. My first year we were the Bee Brigade, then the Dragons, [can't remember], now Monsters. Because of this, I have planned a lot of my activities to be associated with monsters.

The first thing I had my kids do:
I took a posterboard and cut it in half, then folded it about 3/4 of the way and stapled the sides to create a "craft pocket." I allowed them to draw/color a monster on the pocket part, and they colored their names (which I wrote).
There are several projects we do which take more than one day, so I have the kids put them here until we pull them out again. I also have them put completed crafts here (instead of cluttering the shelves and counter space).

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