Is your child headed to big-kid school next year? Are you wanting to know what your child should know before starting kindergarten? Check out this post with tips on preparing for kindergarten.

These handprint lilies are so beautiful and surprisingly easy to make! They'd make such a thoughtful handmade gift idea for Mother's Day if you make a small bouquet and tie them together with a ribbon. Or you could make a bouquet of handprint Easter lilies if you use white paper. Can Easter lilies be pink? I think they're just white? Either way, they're adorable for spring and they're a wonderful low mess craft to make with the kids! I had such an awesome helper when I made these paper handprint lilies! My spunky 5 year old loves crafts, and she

Have you seen all the excitement about glue sponges? Well, we've gathered all of the glue sponge tips up in one spot to give you the low down on how to make them for yourself and tips we have learned along the way.

Fall No Prep Kindergarten Free 50 Page Work Book Looking for a little extra practice in those beginning Kindergarten skills? This book was designed specifically for the first couple months of Kinde…

Take a look at our kindergarten daily schedule and see what we do all day in our kindergarten classroom!

Here is the perfect project for the start of the school year: Kandi-Apples.This project will allow students to create a work of art in the Style of Kadinsky.When they are finished, you can make a colourful collective display. This project requires simple materials, and apple models are also included...

These crayon cuties were created a couple of weeks ago, by Kindergarten! I found the idea on Instagram, from @artfunwithms.c. Here's how we created them! Materials: 4.5" x 12" 90 lb paper Crayola Artista II watercolors Big Kid's choice paintbruses Tru-ray construction paper glue sticks Sharpies Day 1: I demonstrate how to paint their paper. We don't want to mix a whole bunch of colors together, and make a puke crayon!! EEEWWWWwwwww they all say 😆 I tell them, you can choose colors in the same family, but don't mix cool colors with warm colors! After I go through my demo I give them their paper to get started. While they're painting, we read The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt. Day 2: We glue black strips to the top and bottom, and use them for arms and legs. I give them circles to glue on for their eyes, and they draw the face with a Sharpie marker. I love all the different expressions that they create! We hung ALL of them up for Night of the Arts, and they looked sooooo cute!! DISCLOSURE: LINKS TO PRODUCTS ARE AFFILIATE LINKS, WHICH MEANS I GET A SMALL COMPENSATION FOR SALES. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR BLOG!

Explore shapes, lines, colors, balance and composition with kids in this collage art lesson inspired by Mondrian. Perfect for elementary-aged kids!

Check out these gorgeous Romero Britto inspired art activities...

To begin class, we talked about the basics of portrait drawing: your eyes are in the middle of your head, your head is 5 eyes wide, your neck is as wide as your pupils, etc. I had the students make…

Kids love Halloween because this is the only time when they can eat lots of candy and dress up whatever they want. If you have ocean-loving kids who adore sea

Kandinsky Inspired Apple Art for Kids - A fun art and craft for early Autumn that explores colour mixing - Apple Template Available

Kindergarten Rocks! 5 year olds are the best. I was a kindergarten teacher for many years before I became an art teacher. The kids are so full of wonder and possibility. I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite art activities for 5 year olds. Some are ones I’ve done more recently, […]

These last couple months have been such a joy! I've been assisting a friend get a Sunday School program started for our growing church plant and we've decided to read through "The Jesus Storybook Bible" by Sally Lloyd-Jones through Zonder. Since we are still a small group, the age range is fairly wide: from three to ten. Finding projects to go along with the story has been a little trial and error, and a little bit of making projects up as I go! That's why I wanted to share this free printable I made up with you. I found the basic idea from "Hands On Bible Teacher", but was unable to locate any similar printable, so I sketched one out quickly and thought there may be someone else out there who could use the template The basic idea is that you color it in, then cut along the top and bottom of each level. Then, fold the stone layers forward and the rest backward to make the building stand out. I think this would work well for a pop-up book, too, if you'd be so inclined! Click on image below to open full sized. To finish off the time after story, prayer, and this pop-up page, I brought in all our foam blocks and the kids broke off into teams. The team to build the tallest tower in a set amount of time won! It seemed a good time was had by all and my son was even able to re-teach me what he had learned that morning, so we're going to call it a win! =) I hope someone else out there can put these ideas to use again, somewhere! And I would love to hear how it works for you!

Sun prints are so easy, fun, and exciting to make with kids. They are also called cyanotypes and can be made on fabric as well as paper.

Do you want to discover how to make trees for classroom bulletin boards and walls? There are many ways to create a classroom tree. The trunk and branches are

Review math with these free printable summer worksheets for kindergartners. Simply print the kindergarten summer packet to review and learn this summer!

There are so many ways to approach self-portraits with children: observation, inspired by a particular artist, symbols of interests and activities, the list goes on. This time, I wanted to create an engaging, multi media

Take a dot on a walk and see what abstract art kids can create. Use our easy art lesson to make an abstract drawing or painting today.

OCEAN WAVE ART LESSON can be used for grade K-8. Large or small painting surface, acrylic or tempera paints. Perfect for in class or studio art lesson.

Blank books provide a great way to encourage kids to write. Here are 3 easy ways to assemble blank books for your writing center, literacy center, and beyond.

Of all the art and science projects that I have done, lemon and watercolor science has been my #1 fave for YEARS! Let's get started.

Ready for an outdoor spring activity? Kite crafts for kids are perfect. Have fun decorating and building your own special kite and run in the outdoors

I put together a simple and fun Humpty Dumpty Craft for my kids yesterday. You can download and/or print my worksheet HERE. Directions: Help put Humpty Dumpty

Amazing things can happen with just one dot.

Design your own superhero masks! These superhero mask templates are a great way for your little heroes to get their creative juices flowing!

Discover how to create stunning bubble art with your kids! Our step-by-step guide to bubble painting makes this fun and easy activity perfect for young artists. Learn the best tips, tricks, and

This quick and EASY frankenworms experiment demonstrates baking soda and vinegar chemical reaction with fun halloween activities for October.

Pete The Cat Headband Craft | FREE printable PDF template to make this hat with kids. Easy DIY costume idea with Pete's face & ears as a head crown.

So you have been saving those tops from applesauce or baby food pouches, because, lets face it, you are a teacher and you do not throw ANYT...

On this page, you will find 60 free jack-o-lantern and pumpkin coloring pages that are all free to download and print! Whether you are looking for a spooky Halloween craft activity, a Thanksgiving-themed art project, or even some simple pumpkin templates, you will find these all below!

Create stunning tin foil art with your kids using a simple technique with aluminum tinfoil to make beautiful designs from flowers to animals.

Here are a bunch of fun fall door decorations for the classroom! You will find pumpkins, halloween, thanksgiving, apples, and more ideas!