If there ever was a classic instant-gratification craft, it's the venerable felt flower. I was playing around one day, and stumbled upon this method for making an interesting zinnia-style design. Hope you like!
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Here's an owl craft that is both fun and adorable! Create wood slice owl ornaments with button eyes. Then display them on an owl tree! Beautiful fall decor.
We are now finishing our study on hibernation and I had planned to make a little hedgehog to conclude our study. Yet, at circle time, as we were going over the names of the animals that go to sleep in winter, one little boy mentioned owls. I reminded him that owls do not hibernate. "I know that", he said. " But they keep an eye on all the animals that are asleep!! That's why owls don't sleep at night! They make sure the others are ok!". I thought it was so sweet. I made sure to use this opportunity and introduced the term of "nocturnal". I took the example of our story "The Kissing Hand" at the beginning of the year when little Chester the Racoon was going to school at night time. Kids started toalking about hmasters and gerbils (some of them have some at home and knew that these little creatures only come to life really at night time!). It was a great teaching moment and it got the children talking a lot about their own exeriences and about what they knew. Even though we use themes in our classroom to manoeuvre along our Montessori curriculum, I like the Reggio Emilia approach which leaves a lot of room for improvisation and constructivism. I really like the idea of project approach: sometimes a project is based on what I’ve observed the children doing, sometimes it’s based on things I hear the children talking about or questions they ask (just like happened today). This is why I thought of a little craft for them to do and this is what we ended up with: I got some fabric I had saved up and cut it up into little squares. I made templates of owls using cereal boxes. The children spread the PVA glue onto the template and covered it up with the fabric. Then the children added the eyes and beaks made out of felt and finally they glued on buttons to make the eyes look bigger! So cute!!!
Look what's hatching in Pre-K and Kindergarten! First, the students drew a circle and a triangle and painted them yellow. These shap...
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We had so much fun making these:And these: Here’s what you need: 1. Pinecones 2. Felt 3. Ribbon or string for hanging. 4. A glue gun (This is a necessity and only a couple dollars at the craft store if you don’t already have one! I don’t think there is a glue in a bottle on the market that would stick to pine cones.) And just for the owls: Feathers Googly eyes And just for the elves: Tiny pom-poms Pipe cleaners Crayola Model Magic in Skin Tones We found pine cones in our backyard and then put them in the oven for 2 hours at 250 degrees to kill any bugs and dry them out a bit. Of course, you can just buy them at a craft store. For the owls: 1. Cut a beak from felt. 2. Cut a string to hang. 3. Wide part of the cone on top, using a glue gun (for little ones I let them choose the color of beak and the feathers they wished to use), glue the string, beak, feathers and eyes on. It’s that easy. Abbey added a bow for a girl owl. For the elves: Using the Crayola Model Magic.. …roll into head shapes, and dry. To speed up drying time I set them near a heat duct. 1. Using Sharpies or other thin markers, draw a face on the hardened modeling clay. 2. Cut a wide triangle out of felt for the hat. 3. Cut a string for hanging. 4. Glue the string or ribbon into the triangle, and then glue the triangle into a cone shape. 5. Glue pom-pom on hat. 6. Trim hat if necessary. 7. Glue hat on elf head. 8. Cut and tie scarf. (You can use fabric like picture above, but we mostly used pieces of felt like below.) 9. Cut arms and legs out of pipe cleaner. 10. Cut mittens and boots out of felt and glue onto the ends of pipe cleaner. 11. Glue appendages onto pine cone. __________________________________________________________________ Need gift ideas? Here's a list of our favorite, most-played with, delivered-to-your-doorstep, Mom-approved toys. And here are our favorite games. And our favorite books. Here are some great teen gift ideas. By age and interest here.
Students in first and second grade created striking collages made from a variety of images similar to those designed by Henri Matisse. In reference to his paper cutouts, Matisse stated, “I …
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Make your own fairy dough with our super easy 2 ingredient cornstarch and conditioner recipe. Fairy playdough is fun to play with a sprinkle of fairy dust.
One of my favorite things about summer is the opportunity to observe so many different types of bugs and insects. One of our favorites is dragonflies. We have a local pond we often visit in the
Math meets art in these converging line paintings. A great art project for kids, teens, and adults alike.
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One of my most favorite “themes” to teach at the beginning of the year is COLORS! Not necessarily color identification…although yes, that’s VERY important…but I love teaching color WORDS. I think it’s SO important for our kids to know these words early because they’re used SO much throughout the year and we see them in …
If there ever was a classic instant-gratification craft, it's the venerable felt flower. I was playing around one day, and stumbled upon this method for making an interesting zinnia-style design. Hope you like!
This Picasso inspired art project is a wonderful introduction to Cubism for the kids. This is great for an individual or a collaborative project.
