FREE printable Symmetry drawing activity for preschool and kindergarten kids. A fun art and math activity in one! Kids will complete the symmetrical pictures by drawing the other half.

The Fall Preschool Unit is packed full of hands on math & literacy activities as well as no prep worksheets for easy lesson planning.

We’ve been loving the first week of Spring. It’s almost as though the weather knows the date because as of the 1st of September blossoms suddenly appeared in our garden attracting our feathery friends the rainbow lorikeets who like to eat them. The air even smells like Spring because there are lots of other flowers around too – and flowers inspire art and craft in our house. I can’t wait to show you the new ones

I love making this paper daisy flower plant. It was a bit challenging making these daisy templates to cut out. I've included the daisy template pdf and svg files in this tutorial. These are free printable daisy flower templates.

We found this next gardening unit full of free printable worksheets at Lightning Bug Literacy and thought we'd share a few of our favorite exercises! Photo Source: lightningbuglit.com Flower Life Cycle. Teach your preschoolers about the life cycle of a plant - what it needs to grow, the proper vocabulary words {i.e. sprout, bud, etc.}, and what it looks like at each step - with this fun sequencing activity. To touch on the cyclical nature of life cycles, consider having your students use the cards to create a diagram on a piece of construction paper. Photo Source: lightningbuglit.com Flower Counting. Invite your kiddos to practice numeral recognition and counting with these fun, brightly colored flower cards. Complete ordering activities, having students place all the flower cards in the correct numerical sequence {both regular and skip counting}, and fine motor counting activities, inviting students to place the correct number of clothespins or other math manipulatives on the cards. Photo Source: lightningbuglit.com Silhouette Matching. Use this silhouette matching game to start off the morning, as a transition between activities, or at the match center. As they search for the correct pairs, students will familiarize themselves with common garden objects, hone observation skills, and build problem solving skills. Photo Source: lightningbuglit.com 3-Part Vocabulary Cards. Invite your students to strengthen observation skills, problem solve, learn new vocabulary words, and hone visual discrimination skills with these three-part vocabulary/puzzle cards of common gardening items. Students will have fun building each picture and associating the vocabulary words with the picture they describe. Start with two sets of cards - one whole and one cut apart - having students use the whole cards as a guide when matching the other pieces. As they get used to the exercise, take away the guide deck and test students' knowledge/retention. For more great gardening exercises and printables, be sure to visit the full post at Lightning Bug Literacy! Happy Learning!

Hello, how are you today? Welcome to our blog About Crochet. We hope you are very well and looking forward to a new Free Crochet Pattern or Tutorial.

Make any Star Wars fan happy with these super simple DIY Star Wars Garden Pots. Not only are they adorable, they are perfect for any gardener!

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Learn how to make pinwheels without pins that really spin! The best part is that you likely have everything you need for instant fun.

Here are 20 amazing and brilliant repurposing ideas projects to turn your broken china and other glass items into something new and fresh.

Fairy gardens for boys? YES! We found boy-friendly choices including dinosaur gardens, Star Wars, pirates, trains, zoo animals and more.

Turn old barbed wire into great Farmhouse decor. Decorate a rustic barn or country home with metal art. This Barbed Wire Star is an easy to make DIY project

I love how bright and cheerful this sunshine baby quilt is! I’m a big fan of bold and bright colors. This was made using fabrics from my stash...

Print your Free May Worksheets for Preschool! This pack is full of great May themes, plus awesome worksheets to build fine motor skills

For this school wide collaboration, I used Kelsey Montague's wing murals as inspiration and her hashtag #whatliftsyou. Several other art educators blogs inspired me to implement this with my students. I used a mix of Smart Class and Cassie Stephens blog . I started this project off with a Prezi about Kelsey Montague showing examples of her work around the world. Second through Fifth grade made their feathers by making a value scale of a color of their choice on the first day, cut out the shape o

Everything you always wanted to know about nuts, bolts, and other fasteners but were afraid to ask.

Hand drawn doodle vintage digital frames. This cute frame set includes 15 retro inspired designs - curly, ornate and elegant. These delicate frame illusrations will be perfect for wedding and other special occasion themed crafts - scrapbooking, as photo overlays, for stationery, home decor, stickers, printing on T-shirts and much more - the possiblities are endless! You will receive: * 15 separate images; * High resolution 300 dpi PNG with transparent background; * Image size from 5 - 8 inches at the widest point; * Graphics as shown in the listing; * One .zip folder with the files; *** Please be aware that this is a digital item, no physical item will be shipped to you! *** Remember that colors of the digital items may vary depending on your monitor settings, printer you are using and paper you are planning to print on. Be sure to print a test sheet before printing the final amount of whatever you are planning to use Pixel Garden designs for. ♥ Other frame sets available here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PixelGardenDesign?ref=l2-shopheader-name&search_query=frames ♥ More fantastic hand drawn designs: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PixelGardenDesign?ref=hdr_shop_menu§ion_id=19195790 ♥ Back to the shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/pixelgardendesign By purchasing a Pixel Garden product you agree to the terms of use stated in the shop policies: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PixelGardenDesign/policy?ref=shopinfo_policies_leftnav All images are copyright © Pixel Garden. All rights reserved.

Gardening is hard work, so it's always a nice break when you can do a fun project for a change. Learning to make a scarecrow is a task that children will not try to avoid, especially if they are involved in the design and construction.

A basic worksheet to record and write down what you come across during a nature walk. This could be a walk around the school garden or a walk organised on a trip. This Worksheet was created to be used in our Topic on Sense and thus contains 4 boxes each for a different sense. I can see... I can hear... I can feel... I can smell... Taste was left out as we felt that it would not be wise to have children taste things they find on a Nature walk (Safety, hygiene, etc.) The worksheet is available as a Hi-Res .jpeg file, ready to print on A4 or A3. ----------- Have a look at some of my other Resources: Jungle Theme Number Lines 1-20 Jungle Theme Login Cards

Growing stuff. It's my fav. And there's nothing more fun than growing it up trellises. The best part about using a trellis (other than making your

Recently I stumbled upon the super inspirational work of Lily Arnold;creator of colorfol quirky cacti that I woud love to see up on my wall.

Recently I was introduced to a new form of textured painting called salt painting. Basically, you take glue cover it with salt, then drop watercolors on top to absorb the color. Well, can I just

Fairy With Butterfly Measures 6 3/4" W X 12" H Our Handmade Metal Items are Designed, Cut, Cleaned and painted by myself or my Husband. We take great pride in every unique piece we do. We also do custom orders. Please feel free to contact us regarding a design you'd like to see or a special made item. These are cut on a cnc plasma table, there could be some imperfections in the metal which adds character. We want our customers to be 100% happy with their purchases and tell others. If for any reason you feel you can not leave us 5 star feedback, Please contact us. For custom orders we accept Visa, Mastercard and Paypal. I request that all custom orders be paid 50% up front and the other 50% after item (s) have been made prior to shipping. Our goal is a happy customer, I pride myself in making quality items and I will gladly repair, exchange or refund your item minus shipping charges if the item is damaged. Please contact me for instructions on a return. Customer is responsible for return shipping costs and returned items should be in original packaging in same condition. Lost items will be dealt with on a case by case basis.

A free printable art lesson and worksheet With simple instruction for the young artist.

Use our easy printable to make this Adam and Eve agamograph with kids and help them learn about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

All clipart is for commercial and personal use! If your purchase has a terms of use license doc, please disregard as I’m working on removing all of them. Ethical handmade non-AI art :) All images are hand painted by me. Thank you so much for supporting handmade art and artist's rights! <3 *preview images are reduced quality for sample purposes. Purchased files are full resolution. * Watercolor Bugs This watercolor bug set is handmade. It comes with 12 individual, ready-to-use components. Included: - 1 ZIP file containing 13 individual images - PNG images with transparent backgrounds - see second image for approximate measurements - 300 DPI _______________________________________ These images were hand made by me They are sold as a digital download. There will be no physical item shipped to your house. Just add the item to your cart and check out, then you will receive a link to download your clip art! _______________________________________ *Terms of Use: - Clipart can be used for personal and commercial use - graphics are not to be used to create any discriminatory works (e.g., racist, sexist, etc) - the files are used as a part of your final piece, not the only element. E.g., other imagery or text must be added to personalize your creation, not just a copy and paste of the clipart item. - this item may not be used to create and resell design resources (digital clipart, papers, vectors, etc), as this would directly compete with my shop. - the files are only licensed to the purchaser and cannot be redistributed, claimed as your own works, or given away as freebies - in digital products/templates, images must be flattened in your design and not extractable

So many ideas for kids activities from books by Julia Donaldson such as Stick Men trails, paper dolls chains, arts & crafts, and free activity sheets.

Here's a photo of a clematis growing in my garden. The leaves overlap each other and are casting shadows downwards. In this demo I'm trying to portray this effect. I think this negative painting effect is born of working from photographs a lot. It aims for realism and has little to do with conceptual art or spontaneous expression and as such wont be everyone's cup of tea! I'm trying to capture a realistic sense of depth and 3D. So that, like in a photograph, you feel as if you are travelling into the painting. Many people find this concept of painting back to front difficult to grasp. So if this is the case perhaps having a go at this demo stage by stage will make the difference. First I made an outline drawing of leaves overlapping each other. These might be clematis leaves. In this first stage of painting I laid a wet in wet wash. I had mixed up some yellow and some blue separately in my palette and also mixed a green by combining the yellow and blue. I wetted the whole of the paper and the dropped in yellows and greens wet in wet. I made sure the yellows went over the uppermost leaves and the darker greens went into the areas between the leaves. This started the 3D effect straight away as the yellows stand out and the greens recede. I ignored the pencil lines at this stage, just wanting to get a general effect to start with. I let this dry completely. It 's important to allow each stage to dry completely...you can use a hair dryer! Before painting here, you see I have drawn in some stalks in the middle depths as a guide for my painting. With a darker green (with more blue mixed in with the yellow) I painted AROUND just the uppermost leaves. Where one leaf overlaps another, I brought the darker paint underneath the top leaf to make it seem as though a shadow was being cast on the lower leaf. You can see I have painted over the underneath stalks and leaves at this stage. I let this dry completely. Then with an even darker green I painted AROUND the underneath leaves which as a result were now standing out but were darker in tone than the very top leaves. At the same time I used this darker green mix to paint each side of the leaf stalks and tendrils that I had drawn in the middle depths, thus making another layer of depth. Once again I let this dry. Finally I painted in some more veins on the leaves which introduces depth and form within the leaves. So the leaves themselves become 3D. I deepened the shadows cast by the overlapping leaves by going over with a fairly watery bluey green. And I was pleased with my 3D effect! And finally here's this 3D technique used in one of my paintings. This shows a section of a clematis painting where I have used the negative painting method to portray the leaves.

Check out these summer arts and crafts ideas that are perfect for preschoolers and kids. From outdoor painting ideas to ocean crafts, flower crafts, beach crafts, nature crafts other paper crafts, and popsicle stick crafts, these summer crafts will keep your little ones busy. Whether you're looking for indoor or outdoor activities, these summer camp crafts are sure to delight and entertain your children all summer long. So let's get ready to try these summer camp activities.

A small showcase of some of the handmade items i've created over the past 3 years... BBQ Dry Rub Wedding Favors Flower Girl Dress, I added all the blue items. Hand painted bird houses Necklace Pendant Pendant Necklace Earrings Upcycled Mirrors - from Gold to Turquoise Very Large Mushroom, I made with PVC, Chicken wire, and Paper Mache. Created for a Halloween Event entitled "Mad Hatter's Twisted Disney" The mushroom and catterpillar, all hand painted Felt house on a hill, in a small bowl Reversible handbag, vintage handle. Blue Corduroy and Deep Orange Wool.

Bacopa Plant (Sutera cordata) attractive, creeping annual plant, small, white five petaled flowers in the springtime and throughout the summer. [DETAILS]

Star quilt with madder-style setting blocks and border 1840-1860 In the quilt above, the quilter combined indigos, Prussian blues and other...

Whether it's for a birthday, baby shower, wedding or to brighten up a room, bunting is pretty awesome stuff and it's super easy to make at home. Also, I've made you an awesome free downloadable pattern for both circular and triangular bunting! A special thanks goes to David and his computer skillz for taking my hand drawn patterns and making them look like real patterns. Download your free pdf Bunting Pattern here! The pattern is designed to print onto 1 A4 sheet of paper - no random printer resizing should be required. While I have used the circular pattern in my tutorial, if you choose to use the triangle, the steps are exactly the same. Supplies: Free Bunting Pattern Fabric Scraps Bias Binding (learn how to make your own here!) Thread Fabric Scissors Steps: 1. Gather your scraps of fabric and iron. Lay your bunting pattern on your fabric scraps. Note: Get creative when laying out your bunting pattern and use as much of the fabric as you can, you don't need to really worry about grain when making bunting. You'll be surprised at where you can squeeze your pattern onto. 2. Cut your bunting out. As this is reversible bunting, you'll need 2 pieces of fabric for each bunting piece. Note: Feel free to mix it up and use different fabrics on each side. This works particularly well if you don't have enough of one type of fabric. 3. Right sides together, sew your bunting together leaving the top open. 4. Trim seam allowances and clip corners. 5. Turn bunting inside out and iron. Now you can decide the order of your bunting. 6. Once you've decided on the order, take your bias binding and fold the end in about 1 inch (so you can pin your bunting to the wall, table etc). Place your first piece of bunting on the binding so that the raw top edge sits in the middle of the binding line. 7. Fold the binding over the top raw edge of your bunting and pin in place. Then place the next piece of bunting onto the bias binding - you can either place the bunting right next to each other (as I have done) or leave spaces between each piece. Keep adding your bunting pieces to your binding until you run out. Then leave another 1inch of folded binding at the end. 8. Starting about 1/4inch in, sew a straight line down your binding. Make sure you catch all of the bunting edges in your binding. Iron and Ta Da! You have your very own reversible bunting. I used 10 pieces of circular bunting placed right next to each other ended up with a length of bunting measuring just over 64inches long. A quick note about the size of your binding - as you can see, I used a really small width of binding for my bunting, and while it looks really cute, I wouldn't recommend it. It was difficult making sure the top bunting edge was securely sewn in. This was some vintage binding that I had had my heart set on using for this purpose ever since I got it though, so if you're like me, you've been warned :) Let me know if you make any! I'd love to see it :) xx Jen Shop Patterns . Instagram . Twitter . Pinterest

Here's a photo of a clematis growing in my garden. The leaves overlap each other and are casting shadows downwards. In this demo I'm tryin...

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25 masterpieces created using a backyard fence as the canvas - includes chain link, wood and adobe fences. Fence art, fence mural, painted fences, garden art

If you're a beachcomber and always come home with shells and treasures, then these craft ideas might be perfect for you!

Here are 30 brilliant crafts you can do with sharpies. Get creative and make something beautiful and unique today.