Brightening my day...

Today was a BEAUTIFUL day in the Dallas area!  All of this great weather is just making it that much harder to keep the kids engaged and out of trouble.  I can tell that these last 9 weeks are going to be a struggle, so I've gotta be on my A-game (if that's even possible at this point!).

Well, my kids were all kinds of wound up towards our normal center time, so I knew that centers would not fly today {This is how I pictured they would turn out:  my class would be destroyed and 20 kids would be running around the room tearing all of my pretties down while I would just be sitting in the corner crying my eyes out.  Okay, maybe I'm being a LITTLE dramatic:)} Either way, I knew I had to come up with something quick.  I did a quick Pinterest search and came up with a little Spring Craftivity...

Here's how that turned out (I just cut different colored paper into 1" X 6" strips and made a quick cloud pattern for my kids to trace onto 2 different colors of blue).

They really spruced up our lockers!

Here's where I found the original idea.  Click the picture to go to their link.

Oh... to start the activity, we used this little bubble map from my Spring Has Sprung Centers (click on the picture to download this page for free!)  We took it outside and brainstormed different adjectives that described Spring.  After about 15 minutes outside, we went inside to finish up.  I had them bring me their bubble maps so that I could fix spelling AND words that were not adjectives.  After I had proofed their adjectives, they started to make their little rainbow craftivity!

Let me just tell you that this little rainbow saved my afternoon!  Where would we be without Pinterest, seriously?!