Confiscated During Carpet Time

My 4k-ers think they are sneaky. And for a (very) short period of time, they are. They hide "cool" things in their pockets during the put-folders-and-coats away period and take those cool things out again when they sit down at the carpet for calendar time. I give them the "you should put that in your backpack so it stays safe" spiel, which they do 99% of the time, and then move on with the day. Every once in a while, they try to trick me and walk over to their backpack only to come back to the carpet with the cool thing back in their pocket. If that happens, their cool thing goes on my desk and stays there until the end of the day. Sometimes they secretly try to take the cool thing out of their backpack at other points during the day and it ends up on my desk that way too. This week, I ended up with lots of cool things on my desk for the day.

This ring made its way to my desk after going from a finger, to a friend, to the floor, to a mouth. 

I was okay with this bracelet until the girl kept stretching it. I warned her that it could snap if she kept pulling on it. And it did all over the carpet. There were tears. I found those tiny beads all day long. 

It was just too cool to keep in his backpack.  :) 

One kid taught all the other kids how to make fans. Now I find them in random places of our classroom. I have been given a multitude of them as gifts from kids. This one made its way out of a pocket and blew a gentle breeze on my face as I was reading a book to the class.

He just couldn't wait until choice time to show his friends. It is a pretty cool coloring book. 

The same kid who took out the coloring book also took out this paper airplane.
He just wanted to show us. He didn't want to throw it. He promised.
Until it casually flew out of his hand. :)

This girl takes out and loses her earrings every single day. I'm lucky if I find both of them. Her mom gets a little plastic bag of earrings every day.

Chapstick and lipgloss are the worst. I find them all over the place. I usually end up throwing them away because I don't know who they belong to and no one ever mentions if theirs is missing.  

One of boys was playing with this during a large group activity. He was fidgeting with it and it was keeping his hands busy, so I was okay with it. And then he started stabbing his neighbor.

A girl put this in her ear. 

One of the girls told her mom she had to bring these to school because it was show and tell day.
We have never had a show and tell day this year at all.