I posted under Arts & Crafts but no responses so thought I would post here instead. My ds' 100th day of kindergarten is coming up and we have been assigned a project involving 100 of ?? (anything). It can literally be anything. I am not creative by any means and need your help. I would love to do something creative with him.. but fun and simple to do as well. Any ideas?

By Trina~moderator on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 03:51 pm:

Are you supposed to do anything special with the items or just bring in 100?

100...

Cheerios
Kix
Chocolate chips
M&Ms
Teddy Grahams
Goldfish
pom poms
beads
paperclips - hook them together to make a chain

By Reds9298 on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 09:44 pm:

Same question here Trina!
Someone else posted about this, too. I loved 100th day in Kindergarten! Let me see, I've had just about everything, from easy to weird:
(everything Trina mentioned+ any kind of candy/food)) and...
stickers (in 10's), faces cut from magazines and put on a posterboard, matchbox cars, toothpicks (glued in tens or in a bag),sheets of paper (could even be sticky-notes), pencils, cotton balls, junk drawer stuff, crayons...

My brain is dead right now! I'll keep remembering and post some more later when I think of them. Sorry!

By Marcia on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 01:03 am:

You could write his name in glue, and glue 100 of something onto it. (any of the foods listed above, buttons,etc)

By Tklinreston on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 10:08 am:

It's my understanding that we have to make some kind of art project out of the 100 items. I was thinking about drawing his school on the bottom of a big poster board and then gluing 100 different color cotton balls on the poster to represent balloons (draw in the wiggly strings) being released into the sky as a celebration of the 100th day. Does that seem like a good idea? Do cotton balls come in different colors?

By Emily7 on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 10:12 am:

You could use pom poms instead of cotton balls, then you would have different sizes as well as colors. I think it sounds like a good idea.

By Tklinreston on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 11:17 am:

Thanks Emily - Do they sell these pom poms at Target or Wal-Mart?

By Emily7 on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 12:18 pm:

In the craft department at Walmart.
I don't have a Target here, so I am not sure if they sell them there.

By Marcia on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 10:29 pm:

You can colour cotton balls with powdered tempra paint. You just put them in a baggie with a bit of paint and shake them around.

By Paulas on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 10:43 pm:

My son and I are going to glue 100 smarties to a t-shirt to decorate it.

By Feona on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 11:38 am:

100 one cent stamps - peel and stick. Make a picture with them.

One hundred pennies glued in a picture or just by 10s or 5s or 20s.

We have to send in 100 pennies and they buy a tree with the money. 200 kindergarters times 100 pennies. What a great idea.

By Jayne2 on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 08:18 pm:

For my son we made a gumball machine. We used that foam paper to shape it out, glued that to a posterboard and then glued 100 different color pompoms for the gumballs. My husband even created a coin insert and place a penny in it. It was pretty clever and my son loved it.

By Colette on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 08:57 pm:

I've seen tons of hundreds day projects. How about giving him 100 legos and having him make a structure out of them.