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| Our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Room! |
| This is my Chicka Chicka Boom Boom area in my room. Students come here during center time for fun alphabet activities. I use the sand pails that you see on the back shelf for various activities including: *dry erase boards with bright colored markers to practice writing the letters they see on the tree *alphabet books are in one pail *since this photo was taken I brought in a big red ice chest/cooler from home and put big books inside the cooler *the small palm tree on the table is used to find the letters as they go through the Chicka Boom Boom book *There is also a pail full of foam letters (bathtub letters found at Babies R Us) so the kids can put the letters in ABC order *I am currently adding new activities that I'll post soon! |
| 1. To make this tree I cut a long carpet roll to 6 1/2 ' 2. The base is large so it will not tip. I used a large square block of wood for the base and then hammered a 2" x 6" wooden stake into the base. I slipped the carpet roll over the base/stake. 3. I bought 7' of burlap and hot glued it (wrapped it around the trunk one time so there is one long seam) to the roll. 4. A tore the fabric off of an umbrella and covered the metal umbrella skeleton with eight large palm leaves made from green roll paper. I used hot glue to attach the leave to the metal. I slipped the umbrella handle into the top of the carpet roll. 5. I stuffed three brown lunch sacks with paper, rolled them into a ball shape and hot glued them to the metal frame. 6. I hot glued the foam bathtub letters to the tree trunk. Check Wal-Mart in August for colorful sand pails on sale! I got 12 and paid 50 cents for each! I found the jungle furniture at a drug store at the end of the summer on sale for $3.50 for each piece! I initially thought velcro would stick to the burlap and the children would be able to manipulate the letters on the tree but that did not work! I ended up gluing the foam letters (found in the tub toys section at Babies R Us for about $3.99) to the burlap on the tree. I bought an extra set of letters and put them in a sand pail so that the kids could match them to the letters on the tree. I also thought about covering the tree trunk with felt and using felt letters! Just another idea! |
| Make Your Own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree! |
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