Proudly wear this Campfire Crown craft to let everyone know *you* are the quickest camp fire maker around!

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Learn about the planets, galaxies and more with these awesome Outer Space Crafts for Kids! Perfect for Show and Tell or summer STEAM projects!

This is such a fun craft. The kids love walking around with their new Kaleidoscopes. I love how simple it was to make! Come on in and I’ll show you how to make this Easy Kaleidoscope Craft, today: This is a great craft for a sunny day. It might require a trip to the birthday …

Sunday, April 26th, 2020 READ Read through Mark 10:46-52 with your child(ren).

Have you played with these when you were a kid? We did - a lot! But this shark cootie catcher is just a bit more awesome than your regular fortune teller! Folding paper is an

No Sew Heart Pillow. Feel free to ask any question. Would love to help out. Thanks for having a look. :) Happy Creating!!!

The folding process of this easy Origami Chicken craft helps kids develop their fine motor skills while engaging their creativity making a cute chick.

This post contains affiliate links. You can read my disclosure policy here. After our bug matching game from last week, we’ve been in bug mode around here.Today I have a simple bug craft to show you, along with a free printable template for the bugs. Materials-Paper – We used regular paper, but cardstock would also...Read More »

Here are some fun cutting activities to get your preschooler ready for kindergarten (to improve cutting skills and hand-eye coordination). Each page provides opportunities to practice coloring, cutting, and pasting--with a small picture of what the final product should look like to help children in assembly. Just right click and save as (or click on the image to view it full size and then print). Have child color the shapes first, then cut, and finally assemble with glue. I also have an A-Z Cutting Crafts and Activities booklet that contains 40 different cutting activities, with at least one activity for each letter of the alphabet. The PDF file is 41 pages and contains a clickable table of contents to help you find what you're looking for in a jiffy. Craft pages include: Ant, Apples, Balloons, Bat, Bear, Bee, Car, Christmas tree, Cow, Dinosaur, Dog, Elephant, Envelope, Flower, Goose, House, Ice cream cone, Jack-o’-lantern, Kite, Ladybug, Monkey, Nest, Octopus, Panda, Pinwheel, Quilt, Race Car, Rat, Sheep, Snowman, Train, Turkey, Turtle, Umbrella, Valentine, Wagon, Xylophone, Yacht, and Zebra. Click here to download the free file!

Piet Mondrian's work show us the importance of focusing on what's truly important. So here're 10 Piet Mondrian projects for kids to get inspired from!

Babies love crinkle. I don’t know why exactly but they do, luckily crinkle toys aren’t hard to make. Follow this simple tutorial for a fun crinkle starfish no baby on land or sea can re…

Go team! Show your school spirit & cheer on the home team with our DIY sports pennant flag craft.

Craft your own Olympic torch for the Summer Paris 2024 Games! Learn how to make a DIY Torch for Summer Paris Olympic.

Make an origami frog that really jumps! These easy to fold origami jumping frogs are so much fun to play with! Click through for step by step folding instructions.

Time: 10 mins Age: Toddlers to Big kids Difficulty: Easy peasy

Dale Chihuly is one of my favorite glass artist. You see his work a lot here in the Northwest. He even had a piece on the Frasier TV show. But not all of us can do blown glass. I really like wh…

Tissue paper crafts are a great way to practice scissor skils. The kids can show their spirit by making these pom poms in their favorite team colors!

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A display of kindergarten abstract masterpieces. These paintings were created at the very beginning of the year during our line and color study. We coated them with glossy Modge Podge to help the colors pop. Well, my helper moms and I can finally sleep in! The school-wide, hang-up-and-display-everything-we've-made-all-year art show is ooooo-ver. I'd like to thank the kids for their hard work, my amazing mom-helpers who put in countless hours hanging masterpieces, my former student teacher Lauren who worked for hours on the day of the show and my dear mom who drove down from Indiana to help and cheer us on. It was a huge success...one that will be hard to top next year. I thought I'd share with you the two-dimensional artwork from the art show. This is a photo-heavy post...and just the tip of the masterpiece-iceberg. Stay tuned for the upcoming episodes of In the Art Room: Clay Display and, not to be missed, our Walk Like an Egyptian program performed by our Super Second Grade Stars! But for now, sit back and enjoy these fabulous works of art. I'll provide a brief description of each. Feel free to leave a comment with any questions or thoughts below. Enjoy! These sweet kindergarten self-portraits were on display along side photos of the artist. The self-portraits were created on flesh colored construction paper with oil pastels. These were cut out and glued on top of bubble printed paper the kids had made. Hair was then painted. Finally, construction paper that we had cardboard printed was placed on top as a shirt, complete with collar and name tag. Kindergarten display of collage cats, winter landscapes, and fall printed trees. For this kindergarten winter landscape, we began by learning about tints and shades and painting the sky and snowy land. From there we collaged trees and houses. Finally we used metallic oil pastels to enhance the sky, the trees and the house. Because I have my classes for 1/2 hour, I had to think of a quicky project for my wee little ones. They were able to create this butterfly relief sculpture in just the nick of time. Egyptian collage landscapes by my first grade artists. You can read all about this lesson here. The idea of using the first grader's weaving for the body of a crocodile originally came from pinterest. But art teacher Lauren came up with the genius idea to create crocodile puppets. Here's the lesson. Love those teeth. The first graders also created these abstract collages at the beginning of the year. We did some leaf rubbing and painting. From there, we tore the painting into strips and glued them down to a larger piece of white paper. This was a great lesson on positive and negative space. In the second grade gallery, we have our circle loom weavings which we attached our Sculpey beads to, our Egyptian profile portraits, leafy prints and our golden tree paintings (not pictured). I also have the students write an Artist Autobiography every year that is placed along side a framed photo of the artist. Leafy Print Lesson can be found here. Our third grade gallery includes our sarcophagus, foil leaf reliefs, cardboard weavings and our haunted trees. Not pictured are our photos and bios. You can read more about our sarcophagus lesson here. A close up of one of the third grader's cardboard weavings. This year we tried our hand at adding beads to our weavings. We attempted to hide the cardboard with some scratch art paper designs. I hope this artist is able to find a good place for tacos while she's artin' it up in Paris! When painting our sarcophagus-es (sarcophagui? We eventually took to calling them our sarcopha-dudes), some of the early-finishers tried their hand at optical illusion drawing. This lesson was pulled from pinterest and was so simple, that I just wrote out the directions on the board and the early-finishers followed the steps. Fourth grade awesomeness: framed photos and bios, Mona Lisa group project photo (seen on the far left) Egyptian prints, cartouche, moon-light paintings, woven pouches, and Egyptian god portraits, Egyptian god portrait lesson here. The kid's all time favorite thing in the whole wide world to do: weave! Once the fourth graders get a taste of weaving, there is no turning back. I have one sweet girl who has woven 12 pouches now for her family members in Mexico. All the time and hours spent are immediately forgotten when you get a sweet note like this the following day...love it!

Third Grade students studied the life and art of Van Gogh. We learned the difference between impressionism and post impressionism. Impres...

This craft step by step on how to make paper windmill that spins around, is one of my favorite fun and easy summer craft ideas for kids. Like most of my other crafts these will make a great toy windmill to take outside too, as well as to the beach. My DIY Windmill project comes

These following directions drawing activity ideas will teach kids to listen carefully to instructions and interpret them.

Sea Turtle Flextangles are a fun way to learn about life cycles! As you rotate the flextangle you can watch a sea turtle go from eggs, to a hatchling, to a juvenile turtle and then to adulthood.

Downloadable Ezra coloring page showing King Artaxerxes sending Ezra to Jerusalem to teach the Israelites from Ezra 7....

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