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Mardi Gras Theme for Preschool
Using the Weekly and Daily Planning FormsIn the weekly planning form, ALL of the boxes are editable! Simply print as they are OR move activities to the days you want them or replace activities with your own!You’ll find my standards listed under each activity. This is where you will enter YOUR program’s standards (that you added to the Conversion Chart) 1. Refer to the conversion chart you completed and look up my Standard Letter/Number.2. Replace that letter and number with YOUR program’s equivalent that you typed into
the Conversion Chart.3. Print!
The Weekly AND Daily Planning forms are both 100% editable so you can move the activities to the days you want to do them or even replace them with your own activities! (If you do that-be sure to change them on the daily planning forms as well AND replace the standards in that box with the correct standards for the activity you have replaced mine with!)NOTE: The blue areas will NOT print blue, don’t worry! Those areas are the “editable areas”. They will print with a white background when you print!
Using the Standards Conversion Chart
1. Type in each of your program’s equivalent standards next to mystandard.
2. Save to your computer.3. Refer to this chart each time you use a theme from Preschool Cubby
King Cake Recipe (for cake) – Page 1 of 2Filling: 4 ounces cream cheese, 1/2 cup brown sugar (packed), 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/4 cup raisins (soak in hot water for 15 minutes, drain and pat dry) 1/2 cup pecan halves (I have never used these because of nut allergies).Cake: 2 rolls (total of 12 individual crescent rolls) refrigerated crescent rolls in the canIcing: 1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar; 3 to 4 Tablespoon milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, Purple, green, and yellow colored sugar crystals or food coloring1. Have the children help you to put the cream cheese, brown sugar, cinnamon, and raisins in a food processor. Process until combined. Set aside.2. Preheat oven to 350 F. Spray a pizza pan or baking sheet with butter-flavored vegetable oil.3. Unroll crescent roll dough and separate into triangles. Position triangles next to each other with the points toward the center, overlapping the long sides about 1/4-inch, forming a large round. Where the pieces overlap, press the seams together only in the center of each seam, leaving either ends of the seams unsealed so you can fold them up over the filling.4. Spread the filling around in a ring covering the center sealed seam of each triangle.5. Place a small plastic baby or dried bean somewhere in the filling. (The person who gets this piece will have good luck for the year.)Fold the short side of each triangle toward the center just to the edge of the filling to cover. Then pull the point end of the triangles toward the outer rim of the pan to fully enclose the filling, tucking under the points. Lightly press the seams.Bake 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown. Let cool to room temperature.
1. Whisk together the confectioners' sugar, milk or cream, and vanilla until smooth. The consistency should be fairly thick, but still thin enough to slowly drip down the sides. Add more milk as necessary. 2. Spoon the icing in a ring over the top of the King Cake and allow it to slowly drip down the sides.3. To decorate for Mardi Gras, sprinkle wide stripes of purple, green, and yellow colored sugar crystals.If using food coloring:Whisk together icing as above.Divide icing evenly among 3 bowls.Add 2 drops each of red and blue food coloring to the first bowl to make purple.Use 2 drops each of yellow and green in the remaining 2 bowls.4. Scrape each individual bowl into its own ziploc bag. Squeeze out all the air and seal.5. Snip off one corner of the bag and use as a pastry bag to pipe wide stripes of icing on the King Cake. The bags will give you more control than using a spoon or spatula. The icing should firm up a bit in about an hour.
Yeast ExperimentNeeded: dry yeast, sugar, warm water, ziplock baggies, magnifying glassesPour some yeast onto a tray or in a bowl for the children to look at and describe (how it looks, smells, feels). Pour that yeast into a ziplock bag and seal. Print “yeast” on the baggie.Discuss what yeast is used for (in baking, to make cakes and breads rise).
Next, pour some sugar in a bowl for the children to look at and describe. Now mix it with some dry yeast. Have children describe some more. Ask them to predict if anything will happen now that the sugar and yeast are mixed. Pour the yeast/sugar mix into a baggie, seal and print “yeast and sugar” on the baggie.
Now, place 1 teaspoon of yeast and 1 teaspoon of sugar into a baggie. Ask the children what they think will happen if you add warm water to it? Add ¼ cup of warm water to the baggie and seal. Print “yeast, sugar and water” on the baggie.
Let all 3 bags sit in a sunny space or under a warm light for about 15-25 minutes.
The when mixed with water, the yeast “eats” the sugar to grow…simply put.
There’s a great description of a similar experiment here on Education.com
Print, cut and laminate and cut 2 sets of the following Mardi Gras cookie pages Glue one set of tools into the file folder.
The children match the second set.
There are several sets for you to choose from here:•1 set has upper case letters.•1 set has lower case letters.
Create the game so they are matching upper to upper case and lower to lower case OR upper case to lower case.•1 set has the numbers 1-20 on them. Print 2 sets and have the children match the numbers.•There is also a blackline set of cookies for you to program with the concepts you are working on (perhaps color each cookie with a color pattern!).
Song Card & Song PosterHow to use:• Print and laminate the song card below (it is 5” X 3”).• Place in a can or box with other cards of songs your children
love!• In transitional times (waiting to go outside or wash hands,
etc.), pull out your song box or song can (I use a decorated coffee can!).
• Shuffle the cards in your hands saying “Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle” and your children yell “STOP”!
• When they yell stop, whichever card is on top is the one you sing! The kids LOVE this!
Each month you’ll receive one of these cards that correspond with the song poster for the month to add to your Song Card Collection!On the next page, you’ll find the Song Poster! Print and laminate for use over the years!
The following images are from the calendar pieces.
You can use these in several ways:
• Print and laminate several pages for the children to use to create patterns. Either you begin a pattern using 4-5 of these cards and encourage the children to continue the same pattern. Or, have the children create their own patterns using the cards.
• Print and laminate several pages for the children to use as a matching/memory game.