I was inspired again by Dollarstorecrafts.com to make these great  garlands with The Design Director's kindergarten class (see the post  here). We tried the newspaper, but the kids had a hard time not tearing it  up... And we ended up using white paper. Some of the kids really took  to this and the teacher told me she had a real "aha" moment when one  of the more rambunctious kids in the class really connected with this 
craft... She'd not seem him sit still in the first 3 weeks of  kindergarten, and suddenly he spent an hour making leaf rubbings,  cutting them out and running them over to me. (I found that SO 
exciting!). I've committed to come to class bi-weekly (maybe even  weekly) to do art with the kids. Visiting for Mimi's birthday, I was  told again and again how much they'd loved the craft and having the  garland up in the room.
 

 
 

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That's an awesome story!! Yay for art!
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