Last week, I posted about line drawings that my kindergarten students made with oil pastels and watercolor paints. To finish these off, my students glued paper strip lines (folded to make zig zags, curled and pleated) to the bottom of the page. The students reinforced their learning of types of lines and were introduced to paper manipulation techniques. Then, we rolled and stapled them at the top and bottom to create a hanging windsock. A little bit of double stick … Read more... →
Easy, yet effective Claude Monet Water Lilies Art Project for Kids is painted with a spoon! adding fun and experimentation to kids exploring famous artists.
My Patriotic agamograph is a unique art project for kids. Try my patriotic agamograph project and see how easy integrating art can be!
Children can fingerpaint a gorgeous Polar Bear Process Art project using this easy technique. The finished product is stunning!
These colorful, furry Fork Painted Monsters are perfect for the fall season, as a Halloween craft, but monster crafts are great any time of year.
Woah. It’s 2015 in almost 24 hours. How did this happen??! I don’t know. But I do know that we’ve shared some super fun art ideas and art projects for kids this past year so I thought I’d put them all together in one place to make life easier. I’ve definitely had some misses (like this one was […]
Ronan's artwork made it onto the Wall of Frames! Nice job Ronan!
Here is an easy Canadian Olympic project. I got the idea from the logo for the Canadian Olympic Development program. I'm currently making an Olympic file folder book with Grade 1 at my latest residency. This will be on our back cover. MATERIALS REQUIRED: - good paper for painting, not necessarily wc but a nice heavy paper - disk tempera paint - contact paper, the re-positionable type, I get mine from Home Depot - maple leaf template, type in maple leaf template under Google images and you will find tons - scissors PROCEDURE: Resize your template so it works for your paper. The ones I'm using for the file folder book are quite small. Trace around template on the back side (paper side) of the contact paper. Cut out. Tape your paper down to an art board with green painter's tape. Remove paper backing from contact paper and place your leaf in the middle of your paper. Smooth down all the edges. Paint bright colours radiating out from the maple leaf. The contact paper resists the paint. Set aside to dry. Remove sticker. If it comes off in one piece you can place it on some wax paper and use it over again. Remove tape. That's it. Here are some of the Sochi skylines that Grade 3 did. See you next time. Gail
Hanukkah is right around the corner. We are very excited about this in our house. Recently, I came across a stack of Gigi’s old paintings and thought the colors were so pretty, it might be fun to make something out of them. We have piles and piles of art so I didn’t feel bad cutting […]
Easy Art Projects! Whip up some easy white puffy paint-goo and let your kids make some awesome clouds.
5th Grade Art Club worked together to create a wire quilt. Each artist created at least 2 quilt squares, exploring the art of wire sculptur...
Every year I like to do a birch tree collage project. I've done variations of this project but decided I would try a woodland creature instead of a bird.
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Painting gears is a fun process art activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kids. Great for a robot, construction, or clock theme.
This chalk pastel tulip art project is a great spring activity that kids will love to create! Learn easy and fun pastel techniques.
Spring is here with these colourful Spring art projects for kids! Check out these open-ended art ideas to get your little Picasso inspired.
How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers is one of our favorite children’s books. We were inspired by the beautiful illustrations in the story to create this watercolor ocean and star art for kids! Follow our Children’s Book Activities Pinterest board! (This post contains affiliate links.) We are huge fans of children’s books by …
This fine motor mosaic craft for preschool is a great way to extend the experience of reading Leo Lionni's A Color of His Own.
Ideas, tips and photos to help you create engaging, welcoming and playful learning spaces for babies and toddlers - Download the factsheet!
Beautiful Oops painting... Learning to turn mistakes into beauty using creativity!
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Here are 9 simple and quick remembrance day crafts activities to make for kids and adults this memorial day.
At the beginning of the year, within the first week of school, I like to get something up in the classroom that personalises the classroom for the new cohort of students I am teaching.
Hi guys! I'm back to link up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five for Friday linky to share 5 teaching idea from this week! 1. Roll to the Top! In math, we have been talking about subtilizing strategies and one of the strategies we talked about is recognizing numbers quickly on a dice. I made this "Roll to the Top!" so the kids could have extra practice with counting and eventually subtilizing numbers on a dice. I have the kids roll and trace the numbers until one number reaches the top. The love seeing which number "wins". It is pictures above with a marker but I have since laminated a couple copies and set them out with dry erase markers to save on paper. You can grab the printable above for free by clicking on the image below: 2. Sorting Through Spring I borrowed the book "Sorting Through Spring" by Lizann Flatt from our local library after I had it recommended to me at a Kindergarten math workshop I attended recently. I thought this book would only be about sorting but it covers so many concepts! There are pages on patterning, sorting, graphing and more! It is an awesome addition to our math centres! On the first few days I opened it up to the sorting page and had the kids sort beads by colour. I had the kids use either their hands or the tweezers for a challenge. This was a surprising hit!! A few days later I switched changed the page to the worm patterning page and added some feathers. The kids were invited to create patterns here by threading the beads through the feathers. Another great one for fine motor and the kids loved exploring patterning with new materials. 3. Q-Tip Painting on Paper Plates I'm working on having more intentional art opportunities out for the kids so when I came across this post by @thekinderteacher on Instagram I knew I had to try it! My kids have loved doing q-tip painting activities in the past so I knew this art activity would be right up their alley! The kids have loved creating different designs all week :) 4. Nature Centre The credit for this one goes 100% to my amazing teaching partner/ECE. She took down our dramatic centre (which was a beach in connection to our ocean inquiry) and set-up this nature centre! It has a variety of materials for the kids to explore, create and imagine with. When she introduced the centre, she brainstormed with the class what they can do at the centre and recorded their ideas. Then she posted the ideas at the centre for the kids to refer back too. Here are some of the items available in the centre: Empty spray bottle, dirt, a variety of seeds, tree house, logs, fake grass, artificial flowers... toy frogs, pine cones, rocks, bark, toy birds, feathers etc. On the second day she brainstormed with the class words they might use in the nature centre and now they are in the little white container above. Some of the students have been bringing in things from home as well to add to our nature centre including the butterfly and the treehouse you see above! They are loving this centre and there has been some amazing pretend play and writing happening here! 5. Canadian Coins We have started learning about Canadian Coins! I have lots of centres already from last year (you can see my post from last year here) but I whipped up a couple of new centres as well! This one is "Roll, Find, Match & Cover". The students roll the dice, find the coin, find a match on the mat and cover it. They keep rolling until all of the coins are covered. I encourage them to say the name of the coin as they cover it. They can play by themselves or race a friend. This one is called "Coin Value Drop". This one is a trickier one because they need to know the value of the coin and put it in the right jar! To make these I just cut a slit in the piggy bank pictures (I made them just slightly bigger than the coin so it is slightly self-correcting) removed the inner metal circle of the lid and replaced it with the piggy bank circle I had cut out (I hope that makes sense!). The kids enjoyed this one too! I updated my "All About Canadian Coins" packet to include the printables for these 2 centres! You can check it out in my TPT store here. That's it from me for this week! Click on the image below to link up with Kacey too!
Children of all ages will enjoy one of our favorite spring crafts for kids- a sweet little nest and baby bird craft! Even my toddler enjoyed creating these cute, little baby chicks! This easy craft is also great for preschoolers and kindergarten and is a great way to work on fine motor skills while creating adorable …
My kids had a great time painting these simply lovely watercolor dreidels last night, and the results are fantastic! We'll use our watercolor dreidels to make a hanukkah garland, a simple mobile or as elements in an as of yet...
My preschooler and I began our welcoming of the fall season with this fun Fall Tree Craft today. It's simple enough for toddlers to create yet still fun for
I showed the students the book called “Snowflakes” by: Kenneth Libbrecht. It is a collection of magnified snowflake pictures taken in vari...
Space activities and centers (literacy, math, fine motor, stem, blocks, sensory, and more) for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.
Perfect Activity for Fall Leaves have already started falling down the trees - a perfect time to learn something about them and these leaf coloring pages will be of help! There are so many colorful
This month we have been inspired by renowned Canadian author and illustrator Barbara Reid. Barbara Reid has worked on some of my class’s favourite read-alouds: Picture a Tree, Perfect Snow, a…
These paper roller coasters are SO fun to make. All you need is strips of construction paper. The steps for the little car are below.
Kids can celebrate the colours of Autumn with this vibrant Fall leaf mobile. It's easy to make, great for all ages, and the process is really fun!
I did this project with a group of Kindergartners in our co-op as a part of an Eric Carle author study. We spent some time looking through his books, talking about his collage technique using painted sheets of tissue paper, and seeing how he does it in his studio (in The Art of Eric Carle - great book from our library). Then we tried our own version of the flower that grew from The Tiny Seed. First, we needed to paint several sheets of paper. I used acrylic paint on copy paper to have a sturdier paper for the kids to cut. Will and I did all the painting beforehand because there wouldn't be enough time during the class. We brought the painted paper to class and starting cutting. A few kids added bugs, butterflies, and grass to their collage based on the pictures in book. Then we glued our flower to the white paper. This was my example... Will's finished collage... I used the leftover paper to make a "mat" behind Will's paper. And now I have his bright and fun flower hanging in the kitchen. More Eric Carle resources: The Official Eric Carle Site The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
With water, coffee filters, markers, and the free Leaf Template, kids can make a colorful Leaf Craft with this COOL and CREATIVE art project with a STEAM twist.
For anyone who is interested in adding more inquiry-based learning to their program but isn’t sure where to start, I highly recommend starting with Art. Art involves creativity, problem solvi…
