Luau week 1 and week 2

The last two weeks in the Bumblebee's room we have been learning about Luau's. We have talked about:

-The food you eat at a luau
-The clothing you wear at a luau



We made fingerprint cherries using red paint, and the tips of our fingers.



We made paperplate bananas, the kids painted them yellow.

Our favorite!!! A pinecone pineapple- the kids love doing this! (Note to self: pinecones have little bugs that live inside of them, the kids didn't like that too much.)

Paper plate coconuts.



The  Bumblebees class took time to make REAL cocounut smoothies. What an adventure opening a cocomut was. However, after a few searches I figured it out. There is one soft spot in a coconut you can pierce with a knife. You pierce it, drain the water out, and bake the coconuts at 450 degrees for about 10-15 minutes (or until they crack). Once they crack you can give them a little toss on the ground and they will break open. We blended up pineapples, bananas, cherries and coconut water (+ice) and the kids really enjoyed them! Again, sorry for the blocked out faces- we can't expose the kids identity.





Adding the bananas.....



After we talked about bananas we made a fun snack with them. We cut bananas in half, put them on a popsicle stick, rolled them in yogart, then in cereal. The kids did enjoy a little banana lollipop.





We also "dissected" a banana. The children really enjoyed putting on safety googles, and using magnifying glasses, and of course squishing bananas between their fingers!

Last but  not least, we talked about the attire you would wear at a luau. We spent the whole week making pieces of clothing, and on Friday we traced our bodies and "dressed" ourselves up. We added a big picture of the children's face to their traced bodies. We made flower headdresses, grass skirts, flip flops and leis. We really love the way they came out.