Cave made using cardboard, paper, and lots of tape :)
Your kids will love creating this bat cave freebie! Kidds use a paper cup and a popsicle stick, and the bat printable to create the hanging upside down bat. This set also comes with a bat hat, bat emergent reader, bat writing, and more! This craft would work for kindergarten, preschool, first grade, or at home.
Torn paper cave craft to go along with forest theme, bear theme, or hibernation unit
Create Cave Art with our fun craft activity guide template. Buy art and craft supplies at Baker Ross, inspiring creativity
This paper plate bear cave is perfect for cold days when you want to stay in and relax, or for festive occasions like Christmas.
In the past few years, Group Publishing has transitioned from crafts over to “science-y gizmos”. According to a blurb in this year’s curriculum, it was a move to cut down on the little junk that kids took home and eventually trashed. My issues with this are that (a) their science-y gizmos are just junk...
Our Popsicle Stick Hibernating Bear craft is a budget-friendly winter art project, that uses simple materials & easy techniques that anyone can recreate!
Organizing all my crafting goodies in my mom cave/craft room was really overwhelming.7 hacks that helped me achieve the Mom Cave inspiration of my dreams.
With the Winter days approaching fast, L and I have been observing, talking about, and learning about seasonal animal behavior, ...
Inspire and extend your learning with this STEAM art project that touches on early recorded history and cave paintings. Create this Caveman craft with your kids using household materials.
Hibernating bear craft. Paper plate cave, tissue paper snow
Have your kids ever felt inspired to draw on the walls? What about the walls of the cave? Inspired by prehistoric people, we built a cardboard cave, then decorated it.
Silhouette design
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Why yes, we HAVE been on chapter 1 of volume 1 of The Story of the World for about six months now! The girls enjoy listening to the audiobooks of all four volumes of Story of the World (which I've burned to mp3 and put on my ipod), so I'd say that they've been skipping around quite a bit of history in their free time, but just when I think that we're ready to move on to, I don't know, chapter TWO?!?, somebody (me) thinks up or comes across another activity related to chapter 1, and somebody else (them) gets hyped up to do it, so there we go. This time? Cave painting. Including Paleolithic-era cave painting might be stretching even Bauer's definition of "from the earliest nomads" a little bit, but especially because the girls and I have spent so much time exploring prehistory and the evolution of the earliest humans on our own, I liked the idea of bridging the gap, so to speak, with an activity that connected early nomads to later ones, and I thought it was important to bring more historical (nomads didn't ONLY roam in 7,000 BCE) and geographical context (nomads didn't ONLY roam in the Fertile Crescent) to the study. Because nomads made lots of cool cave art in lots of cool places during lots of different time periods. My favorite cave painting web sites are these two from France: Chauvet Cave Lascaux Cave--this site is AMAZING, just so you know. It's a virtual walk-through of the cave, down to the tiniest detail, and you can zoom up in even more detail on each piece of art that you pass, as well as get more information on it. The Cueva de las Manos in Argentina is also a pretty great cave, but its web site is nothing fancy. To make our own cave art, I first created a cave environment by cutting open a ton of brown paper grocery bags and duct taping them all over a wall. The girls' loft bed was still against the wall at that time, so I taped the bags right over the planks of the bed that were against the wall, adding some dimension to the cave, since that was very important to many cave artists. Since the cave was a temporary installation, I prepared several pots of tempera (tempera's quality is crap, so it's unsuited to make any art that you want to keep, but it's so cheap that it's perfect for process-based work), and handed it all off to the kids: I didn't give the kids any instructions (other than "We only paint on the brown paper") but we've read so many books about cave art, and seen so many visual examples, that I shouldn't be surprised at how traditional their work was: It ended up as QUITE the fabulous cave: Because we'd all been so intrigued by our study of Cueva de las Manos, I set up a second smaller cave wall specifically to do hand stencils. I used our liquid watercolors in spritz bottles, which work great on brown paper bags: It was REALLY messy--of COURSE!--but turned out great. The kids both stenciled both of their hands (spritzing that bottle is an excellent fine motor-strengthening activity, especially for the non-dominant hand), and I even convinced Matt that he should join me in stenciling our hands, too, so that we ended up with a Paleolithic family portrait, of sorts: Other than the aforementioned web sites, here are the other resources that we pored over to learn about cave painting: Recipe and Craft Guide to France Art: The Definitive Visual Guide The Cave Painter of Lascaux Cave of Forgotten Dreams Europe before Rome
This huge collection of popsicle stick crafts for kids of all ages are the perfect answer to "I am bored!" Part craft and part play toy afterward, these ideas are just fun...
Each month you will find: A seasonal round-up (usually toward the beginning of the month) Posts where I share what I have been up to ...
It's time for the MFT Creative Chat. The My Favorite Things Design Team Creative Chat is a monthly feature, where we are challenged to ex...
Tutorial for a DIY cave using a pup tent and brown paper. Also outline for skit of David's encounter with King Saul in the cave and discussion questions.
