Teach students about day and night with a craft that explores these opposites. Cut out simple house and tree shapes from white card stock. In addition, cut out a moon, sun and stars. Let students paint the shapes and let them dry. Staple pieces of black and white paper together side by side, and give one to each student. Encourage students to glue one house and tree on the white paper, and one house and tree on the black paper, in the same locations on each. Tell students that the white paper represents day, and the black paper represents night, and help students label the papers appropriately. Encourage students to glue the remaining shapes onto the correct picture.
Make masks to explore opposing emotions, recommends the website Preschool Rock. Before the craft, talk to students about opposite emotions, such as happy and sad. Give each student two large, clean paper plates. Help students cut eye holes in the plate. Next, provide paint and markers so that students can draw their face on the plates. Ask students to make a smiling face on one plate, and a sad face on the other. Glue yarn around the plate to make hair. Attach tongue depressors to make a handle. Let students take turns being "happy" and "sad" with their masks.
Show students how to make a collage that explores opposite textures. Gather items to make a collage, such as sandpaper, pieces of bark, cotton balls, pieces of soft material such as fleece and rough material such as burlap. Set out the items on a table, and let students explore them. Ask students to choose items that feel opposite of one another -- for example, rough and smooth. Provide students with card stock and glue and invite them to glue the items they chose onto the paper to make a collage.
Ask students to create an opposite town, as suggested by the website Sprout. Give students a piece of paper and markers, and ask them to create a community in which everything is opposite. For example, an opposite town could be where the birds, dogs, cats and other animals are larger than humans, or where people bark and meow and animals talk. Encourage students to think about common things they see every day and how to make them opposite, suggests Sprout. Encourage students to think creatively, and draw trees that grow upside down, blue grass and green sky, or buildings where people sit on the outside instead of the inside.