Old books make great DIY craft materials that can be highly personalized. Learn more about easy and fun book paper crafts.

If your child likes to color outside the lines, give them creative control over her next work of art with this cute and comical activity.

It is the first week of kindergarten! What do I teach? I get this question all the time! I am so excited to put together this page together for you. I’m sharing our favorite first week of kindergarten read aloud stories and the free coordinating printables I made to go with them. Plus I will s

Satzanfänge sind immer wieder ein Thema bei der Aufsatzerziehung. Steffi Lehmann hat für ihre Klasse 40 Satzanfänge zusammengestellt, die als Aushang in der Klasse oder in einer entsprechenden Dose

Alsace is right on the border with Germany, and having been contested by France and its neighbour for centuries, this region has been left with a character that combines the ... Read more

I know I have said it before but...... Making Memories Month by Month is one of my favorite books published by Creative Teaching Press. T...

Preview: Everything you will ever need to know about quiet book in one place: from how to make a quiet book, quiet book patterns and useful tips to some great quiet book ideas. What made me make my first quiet book This post may contain affiliate links. If you are a parent or grandparent who

1.CLOSE TO THE HEART LINE If you have two or more lines, choose the longest one. It’s a sign of early marriage, maybe around 20-something.

These wonderful living books for elementary grades are wonderful for young children to read on their own or for you to read to them!

Coloring sheet to go along with any lesson you may teach on Henri Rousseau. Use it as a free choice activity, part of review, or a filler for wrapping up a lesson.

We have designed another great summer themed pack. Learn how to draw with a help of the lovely and free Summer Drawing Prompts.

Quiltmaker's Gift book review and activities

Go crazy with these free crazy quilt and crazy patchwork quilt patterns and projects!

Amazing outdoor book nooks and the Top 50 children's books about nature.

Can you continue loving an author’s work after discovering that he or she was a bigot?

Confession time...I'm a terrible singer. Like, turrible. But I don't let that stop me (Follow your dreams, people) from belting out my own little diddies and dance moves in my therapy sessions. Why? Mostly because it draws attention and makes my students laugh. But also, I know that movements and chants and rhymes can all help my students engage and learn. Like the kind of learning that sticks. Let's take a look at some research:

I've had the chance to review the book Free Motion Quilting for Beginners (and those who think they can't), by Molly Hanson. I love that title! I'm a big proponent of quilting your own quilts, as you know, and I've read a lot of books about free motion quilting. I like how everyone presents the information in their own personal way....there is always more to learn! This book presents all the practical information you need to get started. More importantly, it gives you the confidence to jump in and give free motion quilting a try. There are 15 projects in the book that encourage you to start small and increase your comfort level with free motion quilting before you tackle something larger, like a quilt. What I love most about this book is Molly's tone of encouragement throughout the text and the projects. She is great at guiding you though the entire process! I've done a lot of free motion quilting and I love how relaxing it can be. I also know how easy it can be to get in a rut. I challenged myself to get out of my box, so to speak and try some new-to-me, designs. I gave this squared off stippling pattern a try and it went pretty well! I had to slow down and think about where I was going from time to time, but it was fun! I could see doing this all over a whole quilt. I also quilted a few swatches of different designs and I turned them into a set of coasters. Binding them was a little fiddly, but totally worth it! (I can say that now that they are done. Ha!) These are great because I not only used scraps of fabric, but scraps of batting as well. Hurray! I'm happy to count these as scrap project #94/101. If you would like the chance to win an e-book copy of Free Motion Quilting for Beginners, please leave me a comment in this post. In your comment, I'd love to hear what your favorite go-to FMQ pattern is. Or, if you are new to FMQ, I'd like to hear what pattern you would like to master. I will pick winner in a few days!

A preschool teaching blog about preschool activities. My hands on activities can be used for 3-5 year olds ina preschool classroom.

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