My daughter is going to soon be celebrating her 100th day of school. Her teacher sent home a note indicating that we can provide "100 of something" in a ziplock bag to share with the class. This can't be a loose food item. They only allow food in its original package. So I can't count out 100 jelly beans or m&ms or anything like that. Aside from coins, what could I send? Any ideas? Thanks!
I ALWAYZ send pencils! They are inexpensive & the kidz can use them (so can the teacher)...you can find cute ones like cars for the boyz & hearts for the girlz or something like that, you might even be able to find some on sale from Valentines Day or St. Patrick's day!
buttons
stickers
100 individually wrapped pieces of small candy (gum, etc), popsicle sticks, felt shapes
You might get more ideas from Hobby Lobby, Michaels, etc.
Have fun... we had the children dress up like they were 100 yrs old and boy was it fun to see the creativity they came up with.
Hi my ideas would be buttons,straws,soda or beer can tabs,100 pieces of paper with the numbers 1 to 100 on them or you could do 100 snack size bags of candy or suckers
Stickers (stuck on a sheet of paper) toothpicks, cotton balls, crayons, beads...
We did markers for our son this year. There was a box of 100 sold at Target. Pencils are another great idea.
Good luck!
pencils
buttons
rocks (my son did this)
stickers, bouncing balls, balloons; go to a craft store, get those little items...
Cotton balls, jolly ranchers, hershey kisses, beans, stickers,
Paper clips, peebles, cotton balls, necklace beads, rubberbands.
We've done 100 paperclips, 100 pieces of cereal, 100 Starbursts. We have the "food in original package" rule also, but its not like they eat these things - they just do activities with them and send them home.
I'm a preschool teacher who does the 100th day thing, too. The whole point of counting to the 100th day is to expose children to larger numbers and the patterns that are part of counting to 100. They also get exposed to place value.
For the homework, your daughter should be doing the counting (with your supervision/assistance). There is really no point at all in having a mom count out 100 things to send to school; unfortunately, that is a lot of what I got this year.
Anyway, here are some ideas: 100 straws, toothpicks, stickers on a page, fingerprints on a page, rubber bands, buttons, pebbles, candies (glued to a page in the shape of a picture), etc. One year a girl and her grandma made a pillow with 10 rows of 10 buttons sewn on; it was so cool.
I did 100 small legos
My son did this at preschool last year and I bought a green styrofoam circle and a sticker that said "Tee Time" and we stuck 100 golf tees in it (he could do a project). This year, for kindergarten, we took the easy route and did 100 pennies in a baggie.
Ideas: play cars, blocks, legos, stickers, starbursts.
buttons, marbles, beads, erasers, binder clips, legos....
stickers, small die-cut shapes, (Are you a scrapper? do you have any of those small shape punchers?)
wrapped hershey kisses??
100 individually wrapped candies
100 buttons
100 pencils (you can usually get 8 for $1 at target)
100 stickers
Good luck!
If you get the bags of life savers they are individually wrapped. Try that & then have your daughter help you count them out. Shouldn't cost you too much.
You can send Jelly Beans if it says in the original package just count them out and put the 100 back in the package. It didn't say it had to be sealed did it? Other than that buttons or stickers.
Good luck and God Bless!
DD collects a lot of stuff, so that helped us. Last year for K we did rocks, and this year we did sea glass. The kid seriously has 100 pieces of sea glass--actually closer to 200. We spend alot of time at the beach. :)
There are a lot of great ideas here.
Cotton balls, Qtips, toothpicks, straws, marbles, rocks, seeds, short pieces of yarn, small toys, napkins, Kleenex, stickers, pieces of paper....
A paper chain with 100 links
Find out what they are going to do with the 100 items if you can. My son brought Legos, which worked really well because they weighed them, then laid them out in a line on the floor. They were checking to see who in their small group had the heaviest and lightest objects, and whose made the longest line when laid end-to-end. Some other great ideas kids brought were playing cards, markers, and dry noodles. Have fun!
One child in my son's class won an award for his 100 days idea. His parents helped him put together 100 addition problems that totaled one hundred such as 99 + 1, 50 + 50, 75 + 25, etc. What an awesome, useful tool to have because now he can frame it on his wall at home and memorize the addition facts.
How about giving the TEACHER 100 toothpicks AND 100 mini-marshmallows? Make sure you identify that the marshmallows shouldn't be considered as food.
You didn't state what grade your daughter is. Constructing models from toothpicks and marshmallows is a great little engineering project that teachers need to address with students.
