Candles

Have the kids bring in candles from home. Keep a collection of them in the classroom to sort, count, and seriate
Photocopy and laminate a picture of a menorah or candelabra to keep with the playdough. Children roll playdough to make candles and practice one to one correspondence.

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Learn and role play the rhyme, Jack be Nimble for this unit. Have Jack do different things with his candle stick such as "walk around" "go under." Talk about boys vs. girls by letting the children choose if they want to be Jack or Jill.
Add candles to the playdough table. The kids can roll out candles, make candle holders, or make birthday cakes.
Talk about melting and melt some crayons in the oven. Use aluminum muffin liners in a muffin pan. The resulting crayons are much easier to manipulate for crayon rubbing activities. Make rubbing backgrounds by squeezing glue in the form of a picture on a piece of cardboard and allowing it to dry for a couple of days. We sent home a "muffin crayon" and a piece of cardboard with a candle design on it with every child for the holidays. It was the firt time my preschool special education students were successfull with a crayon rubbing activity since the crayons are so much easier to hold.

Ingredients: Pineapple ring

1/2 Banana

Lettuce leaf

Cottage cheese

Maraschino cherry

1. Place a pineapple ring on top of a lettuce leaf

2. Place 1/2 banana in the middle of the pineapple ring

3. Decorate around your candle or rocket with cottage cheese and cherries