Another 100Th Day of School Project

legos; nuts & bolts; q-tips; toothpicks; post-its; pencils; bobby pins; plastic spoons; splenda packets; playing cards; game pieces (cards from candy land, tiles from concentration; dominos).

It's supposed to be a fun activity for families and kids to do together so don't over think it. There's always one parent who has older kids and has seen every idea out there and send their kid in with the best-ever project - but the rest of us struggle to come up with creative ideas - and as long as the kids have fun that's all that *counts*.

Go to home depot - washers, nails, widgets, etc. Go to the dollar store and have her browse what they have that you can buy in bulk.

Paint chips from Home Depot or Lowes. You could get 100 of the little cards.

i like the paint samples idea.. you dont have to pay for those little cards and you can get 10 of each color of her choosing

My son did that. He's in 1st grade.
I let him take the lead in the project. Which was the instructions my son's Teacher noted down, on the instructions sent home about it.

We gathered things around the house in 10's.
And the Teacher had given them a largish sized poster board to do their project on.
Then, I got out the hot glue gun. My son knows how to use it and is responsible.
Then, I just let him, do it.
I sat there nearby if he needed help.
But, he... did the project.
And he had a design in his head about how he wanted to group the objects, and then he glued it on.
And it was GREAT, and he was proud of it.
Because he, did it.
I carried it to his classroom for him, he gave it to the Teacher, and everyone was ooohing and ahhhing about it. It was not perfect, there were glue drippings on it etc., but he did it. But it was nice and creative.
The other projects the other students turned in... you could tell, that the Parent.... did it for the child and that it was adult made.
So my son was proud of his, because he did it. And the Teacher, can tell which one's are child made or parent made.

My child glued 100 pennies on a poster board to outline the shape of a dollar.

Wow. Having to bunch them together with rubber bands or clips kind of makes it a bit difficult, doesn't it? I like the ideas of the legos, dominos, etc.. I don't have any real nifty ideas, it just made me remember what my daughter did: She drew a clown on poster board, used yarn for ballloon strings and placed pennies in balloon shapes. It was a hit. Anyway, good luck, and I just wanted to share my memory. :)

My oldest chose 100 crayons this year. A little heavy for the backpack, but a blast to read through all those exotic colors.
Have fun!
=)

Hi, Boss:

Paper clips!

Good luck.
D.

We did pennies, paperclips and lego pieces.

One year the teacher did food items and kids brought things like M&M's, Cheerios, raisins, Shreddies, Pretzels, mini-marshmallows etc and they were all mixed together into a trail mix for the kids to share. That was a fun one.

I work with the band. We repeated a hundred notes.
Repeat a hundred words.
Sing a hundred songs throughout the day (obviously short ones haha).

And now for my personal favorite involving the outdoors: BLOW a hundred bubbles.

Last year my daughter used gems... but I suppose those would be hard to clip together!

Paper clips
cotton balls
q-tips
popsicle sticks
marbles
coins

party city has all kinds of random little things that could be useful for 100th-day projects.

This doesn't help your particular set of guidelines but I thought my friend's idea for her son was great. He dressed up as a 100 year old man and his friend dressed as a 100 year old woman. I'm sure they also had to take 100 pennies or M&Ms or something as well, but the pictures of them were just too cute! I like the idea of sewing/hot gluing 100 items onto a vest then you could incorporate this idea that way. Perhaps put the items in rows of 10 for easy counting.
HTH,
A.

We had to make a 100th day vest with 100 different things on it, and we found little things throughout the house. Pictures, paper clips, stickers, seashells, etc. You could different colored paper clips :) Those are relatively cheap and easy to handle.

My daughter used 100 beads to make a beaded headband.

You could go to the hardware store and buy 100 washers. She could paint them them 10 different colors in sets of 10. And then put them on strings.