stART-Tacky and the Winter Games---Olympic torches and Olympic medals

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It has been all about the Olympics around here this week, and I was really happy to discover the book, Tacky and the Winter Games for our little learners. The big kids have been working of a huge Olympic lapbook, and the littles have been feeling slightly left out of the action.

Tacky and his friends are training for the Olympic games, and when the competition finally arrives, the other anmals are worried he will ruin their chances for a medal. But in the end, Tacky saves the day, and his team wins the "BIG WINNER" medal.

This book has very cute illustations and humor, perfect for the preschool set!

In honor of the Olympics and Tacky the Penguin, we made salt dough gold, silver and bronze medals. We used one of the many recipes for salt dough found on the internet, and then baked them at 200 degrees for about 3 hours, until they were totally dry.

Make sure to use something to make a hole in the medal for a ribbon. I simply poked a hole with a pencil.
I love Luke's concentration!

After they finished baking, we painted them with metallic craft paint.

Tie with a ribbon and

then enjoy the many athletic feats the kids will think of to perform to win medals.

Next came our Olympic torch.

I simply taped two pieces of computer paper together and rolled it into a cone shape--taping it together.

Kim and Luke cut our the yellow and orange flames for our torch.

Our first torch, we glued each flame individually into the cone, but I discovered, it was much easier to staple the flames together and then rolled this into a cone shape and glue it into the white torch "handle".

Our torched caused so much excitement, it was very difficult to get a good picture of the littles.

The main problem being, they kept trying to light each other on fire--keep these kids away from matches!!

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