Get on the Vintage Back to School Bus - Part 3

Welcome to our AKGVH “Get on the Vintage Back to School Bus – Part 3” Crafts, Games and Recipes!

If you missed parts 1 and 2 of this post, DIG the quick links:

Get on Our Vintage Back to School Bus Part 1- Our FAV Videos, Books, Rhymes & Songs

Get on Our Vintage Back to School Bus Part 2 - Activities, Links and a FREEBIE!

As homeschoolers, we have only made a few different types of school buses over the years. There are many different types of buses on the web and we chose to make a 3D egg carton bus. I cut the tops off 12 count egg cartons giving each child 2 tops to paint yellow. After the paint dried, I had pre-cut some faces out of magazines for my wee babes to choose from. I glued around each window and had my babes carefully place the faces in the windows:

Next I glued the 2 parts together with my glue gun and secured them with a rubber band until they dried to make sure they stuck securely together:

For the headlights, rear lights and side lights, I cut off the bumps from the discarded sides of the egg cartons. I had my wee ones paint all their bumps. We let them dry, than we added the appropriate color of glitter (gold and red) to each bump. 2 gold for the headlights and 6 red for the other lights and when they were dry, I glue gunned them onto their correct spot. Next I spray painted 4 milk jug lids black for each child and let them dry. Then I glue gunned them onto the bus for wheels. I glue gunned a pipe cleaner handle on the top for carrying or hanging. While they did take several days to build, we sure did love the way they turned out and after all these years, we still display them at the beginning of every school year:

Next I chose and easy school bus for my wee ones to cut and paste featuring movable parts I downloaded from printables 4 kids. After they colored their buses, I cut them out along with a backing for sturdiness. Visit my tutorial on how to cut them out together here:

Timely Tips from Yesterday and Today - Scroll down close to the end of the post for our Paper Cutting Tips

My wee ones really loved to lift the window flaps, open the doors and move the wipers as I read "The Wheels on the Bus":

You can print this craft out for your wee babes as well: 

Wheels on the Bus Printable Activity

And for our Seals on the Bus interactive activity, first we used the flannelboard figures from Making Learning Fun to perform an interactive group activity. I placed the cut out figures on the table and the bus on the flannelboard.  My wee babes sang the song as a whole the first time around as I put the animals in the bus. The second time around, each child in rote looked for placed the correct animal on the flannelboard as we sang the song:

Next we made these interactive "Seals on the Bus" buses from Making Learning Fun:

  

Your wee babes will DIG putting the animals on their buses when they sing the song as well:

Making Learning Fun Seals on the Bus Printables

We did other School bus activities as well, like spending time talking about and putting together our vintage Fisher Price school bus puzzles:

You can get the Fisher Price puzzle as well for your classroom from eBay: 

Vintage Fisher Price School Bus Wooden Puzzle

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Our next game while simple is hit will all! For some unknown reason to me my wee babes of every generation just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE matching games! Well, I laminated school buses, then taking my black white board marker I wrote letters on the cards. As well, you can write numbers, sight words, rhyming words, etc just about anything you can think of! Next I turned them over and laid them out in rows on the carpet and let the excitement begin:

You can make these School Bus Write-N-Wipes for your wee babes. Just click on the link below, download, print out as many as you need on heavy weight tagboard or cardstock, cut them out, laminate and write. Using dry erase markers to write-n-wipe this activity can be used for just about any subject: 

School Bus Write-N-Wipes




Another fun School Bus game is from Ed-U-cards, “School House in a Fun Box”. 

Children learn the concept of distance, quantity along with basic addition and subtraction facts. The object is to spin the spinner to reveal your move, then ride the bus down the street from home to the schoolhouse using addition or subtraction to obtain an apple, repeating the process until all the apples have been obtained by the players. The player with the most apples wins the game:

Your wee babes will just LOVE playing this rare vintage game! They will have so much fun driving their bus to school and home again, gathering apples along the way I PROMISE you will hear, "Again, again, again!!!" You can get “School House in a Fun Box” for your children from eBay: 

Educards School House in a Fun Box 

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My wee ones have a jolly good time playing our Scholastic Wheels on the Bus Game driving the singing bus around the town gameboard to school gathering the song part tokens along the way:

Your wee babes will be laughing and saying, "Again, again!" just like mine when they play this most exciting interactive game! Get this game for your wee ones today from eBay:


Milton Bradley Wheels on the Bus Game

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For free play, my wee babes have a blast playing with their vintage Fisher Price School House and School Bus. Lots of interactive free play with this set:

You can get this vintage Fisher Price School and School Bus from eBay for your wee babes:

 

Vintage Fisher Price School House 


Vintage Fisher Price Little People School Bus

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And to wrap up our School Bus Unit I have made different school bus recipes for my wee babes over the years.

We made "Seals on the Bus"  with graham crackers, chocolate animal crackers, mini Oreos & yellow-orange icing:

Another year we made these easy but yummy school bus grahams with chocolate chip wheels:

Make these super easy Graham Cracker School Buses with your wee ones today and get hassle-free shopping with FREE shipping from eBay:

Honey Graham Crackers 

Cake Mate Decorative Tube Icing

Chocolate Baking Chips 

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And what wee babe would not want a Twinkie school bus? These were a bit more complicated so my daughter made these for our wee babes yet, Julian gave his hand at it: 

 Of course my wee babes had to show great-gramma their scrumptious treat:

Using Mini Oreos, toothpicks, mini marshmallows and a butter knife, these Twinkee school busus were not too difficult to build. Poke the toothpicks into the center of the mini oreos, cut off a short section of the Twinkie off the top, use some of the cream from the cut off Twinkee piece to secure the mini marshmallow windows onto the side of the Twinkee, then place the Twinkie school bus on top of the toothpicked Mini Oreos. Be sure your wee ones take the Twinkie off the wheels before eating. Make these for your we babes on a quick shopping trip with FREE shipping form eBay:

Mini Oreos 

Jet Puffed Mini Marshmallows 

Wood Toothpicks

Twinkies 
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Last year we made this super dooper School Bus pound cake packed with goodies  and while our is NOT "picture perfect" (NO DOUBT!!!) my wee ones eyes were buggin' out:

It really was not that hard to make and you can make this cake for your wee babes no matter how "picture perfect" (NOT) it is. I purchased 2 pound cakes (with a coupon no less...needless to say, I was STOKED!!!), Honey Nut Chex Mix, M & M's for the lights & nose, mini eye cake deco's, mini chocolate donuts for the wheels, Twizzlers for mouth and hair, along with  homemade yellow butter cream icing. If you plan to make this pound cake school bus and want a quick link with FREE shipping, click on the following links for hassle free shopping: 

Honey Nut Sweet and Salty Chex Mix

Twizzlers 

Chocolate Mini Cake Donuts 

M & M Candies 

Candy Eyes Cake Decoration 

Entenmann's Pound Cake 

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Visit our Teacher's Dojo Store and get our Vintage School Bus activity pack for grades pre-k - grade 3. Our pack is 41 ages of vintage school bus theme stories, song, crafts and activities: 

Vintage School Bus Bundle Pack



Well, that wraps up our Get on the Vintage Back to School Bus Part 3 post activity fun for now. We hope you enjoyed our AKGVH Get on the Vintage Back to School Bus enrichment learning!  

Be sure to check out ALL of our AKGVH Back to School blog posts & FREEBIES. Come back and visit us soon as we will be l@@king for YOU!!! 

C.S. Calkins

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