Materials Needed: Purple, yellow, tan paper Scissors Glue/tape Googly eyes Markers Watercolors Start by cutting a rectangle out of colored paper. Fold it back and forth until you get to the end. Pinch it together
You will love these Olympic-themed party ideas, from food to backyard games and lots of kid-friendly crafts! Who else is super excited about the Olympics starting? We cannot wait! Especially since it's now been 3 years since the last Olympic games. As a family, we decided that we're going to have an Olympic-themed party for the opening ceremonies, and my kids are already brainstorming ideas. There are so many fun ideas that we found, we just had to share with you guys. Which one of these ideas is sticking out to you? I want to make them all! This isn't
A simple and gorgeous introduction to sculpture for kids.
Materials Needed: Purple, yellow, tan paper Scissors Glue/tape Googly eyes Markers Watercolors Start by cutting a rectangle out of colored paper. Fold it back and forth until you get to the end. Pinch it together
Kids can work on sight word recognition by building shapes with craft sticks and play dough in this sight word STEM activity.
Recycled cardboard is one of my favourite materials for children’s art activities. I like it because it is readily available and free! Read more...
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A los niños les encanta la música tanto como hacer cosas nuevas. Así que, ¿por qué no unir ambas cosas haciendo instrumentos musicales caseros?
My 8th grade 3D class is currently working on wire & panty hose sculptures. I found the idea on a google search (and quite possibly a pin...
The final result is very impressive! You don’t need any special artistic abilities to make a similar 3-dimensional hand, all you need is your hand, and colorful pencil. The illusion of volume is great… especially from a distance. Read more on: krokotak – 3D Hand Drawing You may Interested in the following: Family Tree Canvas […]
I usually start the year with kindergartners learning about and using lines. In previous years we have made line paintings and line sculptures with wire and pipecleaners. Another fun project we made was line windsocks by rolling up line paintings and adding tissue paper streamers. We’ve done line drawings (check out what my old blog used to look like before I moved it over to this website.) This year I was reminded by Cassie Stephens of a project I used … Read more... →
Escape – Art in 3D by Japanese artist Yuki Matsueda
3D shapes are always fun! If your classroom theme is Fairy Tales, here's how you can incorporate 3D Shapes... students can create Cinderell...
These lovely paper masks were made by my second graders. The students learned different paper manipulation techniques including controlled tearing, punching paper with Fiskars squeeze punchers, cutting with paper edgers , crimping paper with a paper crimper, making forms, cutting spirals, folding zigzags and more. I created a poster with paper manipulation techniques using ideas that I had seen on other sculpture posters, like this one. I should have made a poster like this years ago. I have referred students … Read more... →
Arts and craft ideas for teens and tweens. From yarn crafts to painting and slime!
Lately I’ve been perusing Etsy for cute mobiles to put in baby’s room. The paper ones really appeal to me because I don’t want anything heavy and potentially dangerous hanging ove…
Find creative 2D and 3D shapes activities that will send your engagement factor soaring! 1st and 2nd grade students love these activities based on the viral video, "What Does the Fox Say?".
Make an easy flower craft to share with others all year long. These yarn wrapped tulips are perfect for Mother's Day or someone you love... just because!
Our weather has been phenomenal this past week which has made me extra giddy to start seeing my colorful tulip flowers start to appear in my front yard.
Welcome to summer! My kids have been home since last Friday and we're making lists of fun projects to keep the vacation fun. Each Wednesday this summer I'll be publishing kid projects and today I'm starting with something David's class did months ago. They built a perfectly contained ecosystem that functions on its own (as an ecosystem is supposed to do) without any outside work or maintenance. They put it together and sat back to watch it grow and mature and I'll tell you, it's really quite fun to see. There is pond life in the bottom and land life in the top and the two exchange water and oxygen so that you can watch bugs crawling on the second floor and fish swimming in the basement. I'm not sure how long you can keep it this way but it's been months since they made it and it's still going strong. What a great educational activity and a step up from just going out and catching frogs (also fun). You'll never have to change water or clean a tank or feed an animal--I promise. Here's what you'll need: 3 empty and clear 2-liter bottles clear packing tape aquarium gravel (or fine, rinsed pea gravel) water de-chlorinator (optional) rubber band 4-inch square piece of netting soil mustard, rye or alfalfa seeds fish, snails or other aquatic life elodea or other aquarium plants duck weed crickets, pill bugs or earthworms a couple dead leaves or small sticks Step 1: Cut the top off of the first clear bottle (make sure the labels are removed, you'll need the bottles clear so the sunlight can get through). Don't cut it too short, just chop off the spout so you have enough of a bowl left over to fill with lots of water. This will be your "bottom floor." Step 2: Cut the top and the bottom off of the second clear bottle, making a clear coupler that will eventually link the two other sections together. Step 3: Cut the bottom off of the third clear bottle but save it, you'll reattach the bottom with tape after you fill it with good stuff and it will be your "top floor." Step 4: In the bottom floor (the one you cut up in Step 1) put an inch of aquarium gravel and fill it nearly full with water. Make sure it's treated with de-chlorinator to take out the chlorine or, if you don't have any on hand, you can set out the water in a shallow pan for 24 hours and the chlorine will evaporate. Step 5: Choose your guests! In David's case the class used two little guppies or other tiny pond fish along with two little snails. They also put a couple elodea plants (you can find them in any pet store that sells aquarium supplies) and the snails and guppies live quite happily by eating the plants and algae that accumulates in the bottle, keeping the system in balance. The class also put a bit of duck weed that floats on the top of the water, its pretty little roots dangling down. The plants help keep oxygen in the water and filter the water. Step 6: Now fill your top floor. Place the piece of netting over the neck of the bottle and secure it with the rubber band. With the bottle upside-down and the bottom off fill with about an inch of gravel then with a couple inches of soil and plant your choice of seeds (alfalfa, rye or mustard work well and are easily found in health food stores). Step 7: Choose your top floor guests. You can use pill bugs or an earthworm or crickets. Lots of possibilities. Let them loose among the grass seeds and throw in a few dead leaves and a stick or two for decomposition. Step 8: Replace the bottom to your top floor bottle and secure it with packing tape. You might want to have the top edge fit slightly down inside of the bottom edge (and that's when the bottle is upside down and the soil is in the spout) because as moisture collects in the top part it will trickle down the walls and if the seal isn't tight you'll get water on your counter. Fix this problem by putting the edges down inside of the edge they're to join up with. (Make sense?) Step 9: Slip the taped up bottle down into the coupler, secure it with packing tape and then slip the bottom edge of the coupler down into the top edge of the water-filled bottom floor. Secure it with packing tape. Step 10: Place in a well-lit spot where sunlight can get through the clear plastic to do its work. Sunlight will allow photosynthesis which will keep the cycle in motion. Keep an eye on your guests, our snails had a population explosion and we had baby snails everywhere. It's really quite exciting. Sponsored by Polkadot Peacock for children's bedding.
Amusez et éduquez vos enfants avec ces 16 instruments de musique DIY, de la batterie avec des boites de Pringles à la trompette maison.
So kann man 3D Papiersterne ganz einfach falten - eine DIY Anleitung für dreidimensionale Origami Sterne
An absolute fun Paper Toy to Color, Craft and Play with! Turn this Paper Toy Spring Kaleidocycle endlessly. Templates and tutorial available here!
Want to make 3d shapes from paper? Or need to teach the names of the different 3d geometric shapes? Come grab the instructions and a printable as well!
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Looking for a fun way to teach 2D shapes? This marshmallow geometry activity will do the trick - and fill your tummy!
In the staff bathroom at my school something like this hung on the wall. I should have taken a picture but I was too caught up in it to think that far ahead. It kind of looked like this except a …
Learn how to make an origami ring. This paper ring diy is an easy and fun craft for kids, tweens and teens to learn how to make.
Hey, friends! Today I'm sharing what my students, all of 'em, kindergarten through fourth grade, are working on to kick off the school year. I am calling them our Getting to Know You Sculptures! If you follow me on Instagram, than you know I've been sharing a lot of info about this. I've gotten a TON of requests for the sheet...so I thought I'd share it with you. I know this sheet has been unavailable for some time...the link has been fixed! You can get two sheets now! Here's one! Here's the other! I wanted to create a lesson that the kids would love, would be easy for all to be successful at and help me out...I have to be absent for the next couple of days. So I knew I'd want something that would be easy and fun for my sub. I created a video for my sub (I always do...it just makes for much smoother sailing) and I thought I'd share it with you...just so you could see how I explain this lesson to my students. Note: I WILL NOT be using the sheet with my kindergarteners. Here is the lesson that I do with them...very similar but without the sheet of paper as their guide: So far the kids have been LOVING this project and I am enjoying getting to know them! They've also been chatting to each other about why they picked what and it's so fun to hear them talk about it. I cannot wait to share with you how this lesson will progress...so stay tuned. You might have noticed that I DO NOT use glue bottles. You can find out why here. Not gonna lie, storage is gonna be an issue until we get these hung up! I'm having some classes do theirs on a white background 12" square paper and others on black. For open house night, I plan to hang them in a checkerboard patter. The strips of paper are cut frmo copy paper. In an attempt to stay organized, I'm keeping them clipped according to table colors. PLEASE NOTE...I love sharing lessons with you all and I do so for free. All I ask in return is that, if you use ANY of my lessons, please give credit where it's due. If you share on social media, please let folks know where you go the lesson from...this way they can benefit from the free resources as well. THANK YOU!
Last fall I planted over 100 tulip bulbs in my front yard and I waited anxiously all winter long for them to emerge from the ground. Guess what? They are all
CUTE, fun & engaging 3D shape nets! Perfect for junior years classrooms but could be used in upper grades as well. The finished product looks awesome displayed in your room after and provides a reminder of the key features. These have been designed for little hands with large fold flaps, fold li...
Many people see art as something with many barriers to entry – maybe the materials are expensive, maybe you don't have the space, or maybe you think it's difficult, requiring many specialized tools. Sometimes that's true, but the artists here have created incredible works using almost nothing but paper and scissors or knives.
Learn about famous art and create your own sculpture with this fun lesson about Giacometti.
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Recycled cardboard is one of my favourite materials for children’s art activities. I like it because it is readily available and free! Read more...
Art Festival and Family Art Night- How to run a Family Art Night. Increase attendance and promote your art department with engaging art activities.
A round up of over 15 great STEAM projects – where math concepts are used to make pieces of art!
