Make a stained glass heart suncatcher with kids and decorate your windows for Valentine's Day! Free printable template is included.
With Valentine's Day around the corner, here are 5 easy crafts for kids. I remember when I was in elementary school, Valentine's Day crafts consisted of construction paper, scissors, and Elmer's glue. Those were the good old days. 1. Hand Print Flowers This simple craft can done with kids of all ages, even babies. I pi
35 Adorable Valentine's Day Crafts For Kids Here are 30+ Valentine's Day Crafts For Kids that are easy to make and super fun. Add one or more of these adorable crafts to your holiday crafting
Love bug craft - so cute and easy! You will want to make this Toilet roll craft for preschoolers today. Easy Valentine toilet paper roll crafts. We adore this Valentine love bugs!! The best Love bug art for kids. This Luv bug is so cute! Our favourite Loo roll crafts for Valentines! Bug a loo so fun!
Kids love fizz! These fizzing heart eruptions are a great combination of science and process art and so much fun to make. They're sure to be a hit.
Looking for an easy fun craft activity to do with your kids this Valentine’s Day? Here is a round up of 25 Easy Valentine’s Day Craft for Kids that are fun and simple.
We'll be watching the opening ceremonies in PyeongChang on February 9, and these fun Olympics crafts for kids should help get them excited too!
Eric Carle's pictures are how many children the world over are introduced to art. Celebrate this incredible artist with these Eric Carle Crafts for Kids.
The best Presidents Day activities for preschoolers to do this February. Hands on Presidents Day crafts and activities for kids.
Royal Coronation Crafts for Kids Unleash Creativity & Learning. Discover engaging and easy-to-make Royal Coronation Crafts for kids!
Reuse an old CD to make a spinning top- an easy craft for kids and a great science lesson on physics! This STEM / STEAM activity if perfect for kids of all ages and meets the NGSS for Kindergarten on pushes and pulls!
Looking for some fun activities to celebrate President's Day? Check out these cool and easy President's Day crafts that kids will enjoy while learning!
Make the kids scream with this spooky self-portrait inspired by Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’. This Halloween art project The Scream Painting for kids i
We visited a petting zoo a few months ago in Oregon and my kids and I were able to pet a baby and adult red fox. It was the first time I had seen one
This community helpers craft is just as one-of-a-kind as they are! Use the community helpers craft template to make your own adorable preschool craft
Check out this amazing list of printable prayer activities for kids. Use them in Sunday School or at home to teach kids how to pray.
Get this free magnet worksheet to use when you test the magnetism of everyday objects. Perfect for kids ages 4-6!
Learn more about this Matisse inspired cut-out art project. See how I incorporated the element of chance using an Henri Matisse roll-a-dice game to create an art lesson focused on color theory & shape. Find out the new twist I put on this tired old collage project that excited everyone!
Looking for some fun ways to celebrate President's Day? Check out these fun and easy to President's Day crafts and activities for kids!
Help your kids work through their big feelings with Mindfulness Crafts for Kids. They will develop emotional regulation skills in a fun and engaging way! You will love these simple projects.
Learn about famous art and create your own sculpture with this fun lesson about Giacometti.
1-2-3 Come Do Some Olympic Activities With Me Are you and your students following the Olympics? I'm a sucker for anything that gets a child's attention and motivates them to want to learn. I think The Olympics are a great platform for that. Even if you don't have time to do an involved unit, or big theme day, you can still sprinkle in a few Olympic activities, so that your students can get some social studies and current events into their day. An easy way to do that is to add these Olympic Counting Puzzles to your math center. They will help your kiddo's practice counting forwards, backwards, and by 10's to 100. You can also print off one for each child to cut up and then glue onto a sheet of construction paper. Remind them to leave a little gap in-between each piece for an interesting mosaic work of art. Click on the link to view/download the Olympic Puzzles. Another quick way to include the Olympics in your day, is by recording any medals that your country has won, by keeping a tally sheet. The Winter Olympics in Sochi has an official website; click on the link and it will take you to a list of countries who have won medals, and how many of each kind they have won. I've included a recording sheet for the United States, as well as a generic one that can be used by any other country. (A friendly shout out to my frequent visitors from Canada, England, Australia, Germany and China, who are the top 5 countries that visit often, as well as 67 other countries!) Click on the link to view/download the Olympic Medal Tally Sheets. While doing research about the Olympics on the web, I found a very helpful site "Winter Olympics Through The Years." It has some great background information, as well as a ton of info from the 1924 Olympics through the current Winter Olympics. Click on the link to check it out. Since most of your students will have seen some winter as well as summer Olympic activities, why not have them do an Olympic Venn diagram? I've designed 6 for your students to choose from. Venn diagrams are a quick and easy way for students to compare and contrast something. Click on the link to view/download the Olympic Venn Diagram packet. I thought a list of all of the Winter Olympic sports, as well as a list of Summer Olympic Competitions would be helpful. Students can look up a sport and write a factual report, or they can add these to a sports dictionary and define each one, or simply use the lists to make crossword puzzles and word searches. I've included a sport reporting page as well as a cover for a sports dictionary if you choose those options. Click on the link for the Winter & Summer Olympics Sports Packet. Another easy idea is to have a few quick activities available "just for fun." Use them for those early finishers, or tuck them in your sub folder. Click on the link to grab the connect the dot Olympic Rings. For a quick Olympic art center, have students make their version of Rachel Whiteread's 2012 London Olympics poster. Spill the 5 Olympic colors onto small paper plates. Using an empty toilet paper tube (one for each color) students dip and press, making colorful circles all over their paper 'til they are satisfied with their design. Besides activities that feed the mind, I always had some sort of special snack that related to the interesting things that we were studying. I had some extremely creative parents every year, that were more than willing to whip together whatever crazy thing I discovered on the web. Their delicious edibles saved me time and money, and really added to our celebrations. If you do that sort of thing too, I found these yummy Olympic sugar cookie rings over at The Decorated Cookie. Click on the link to pop on over. Another easy Olympic snack idea are these cute "torches." Simply fill sugar cones with popcorn. These neat treats were created by Kami. Click on the link to check out her blog article. I have a lot more Olympic FREEBIES to share, (pop by tomorrow) but I don't want this to get too long. Thanks for visiting. Feel free to PIN away. "The healthiest competition occurs when average people win, by putting above average effort in." -Collin Powell
We've got some Christmas Jumper Paper dolls for you - come along to the site and get the kids to dress their dolls, and even colour them in too!
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Today's lesson finishes up the book of Genesis and Joseph! Next quarter will be Moses and there is so much to learn from him! We continued our Joseph in Egypt lesson with the kids wearing the Egyptian outfits. There is a quick printable project for today. It is a good reminder to love God no matter what is happening in your life. Joseph stayed faithful while he was a servant and stayed faithful even with all the power he was given in Egypt. There are so many lessons that could be learned from Joseph & Moses! Thanks for stopping by! Review: This is our last week that we will be learning about Joseph. His brothers sold him, and the traders took him to Egypt where he was sold again to Potiphar. Last week, the butler and chief baker were put in prison with Joseph. Joseph told them what their dreams meant. When Pharaoh needed his dreams interpreted, the butler remembered Joseph. Joseph told Pharaoh what the dreams meant. They were going to have 7 good years and then 7 years of famine. (Not enough food) Pharaoh put Joseph second in command; Joseph only had to answer to Pharaoh. God was with Joseph. He had two sons. Joseph stored up all the food he could during the 7 good years and today, our lesson is during the 7 famine years. This week's lesson is found in Genesis 42-50. During the famine, Joseph’s family is worried about food and decided to go to Egypt to buy corn. Only ten of the brothers went, Benjamin didn’t go. Joseph is the governor (or prince) of Egypt. Remember, everyone had to talk to Joseph in order to buy food in Egypt. When they went before Joseph, and bowed, he recognized them, but they didn’t know who Joseph was. Joseph asked them “Why are you here” and the brothers told Joseph that they wanted to buy food. Joseph said “No, you are spies.” They told Joseph that they were brothers and the youngest was still at home with their father. Joseph told them to send one brother home to get the youngest and the others would have to stay in Egypt until they proved they were not spies. The brothers started talking to each other saying that this was punishment for what they did to Joseph. Joseph was using an interpreter so the brothers thought he couldn’t understand them, but when Joseph heard what they said, he had to turn away to cry. Joseph tied up Simeon and had his brethren's sacks filled with the corn and he ordered the money they brought to be put in the sacks. When the brothers went to feed the animals, they found the money. Joseph's brothers almost passed out! (Genesis 42:28) They were so scared to find the money in the corn sacks! They told their father that the governor of Egypt talked mean to them and accused them of being spies. When the food ran out again, the brothers worried about returning to Egypt for more food. But Egypt was the only country with food to sell. They told Jacob that the governor told them not to return unless they brought their youngest brother. The brothers returned to Egypt and told Joseph’s servant that they had returned with the money that was in their sacks last time and enough money to buy more food. Simeon was brought out to them. Then, the brothers were taken into Joseph’s house and waited until noon to see Joseph. They bowed at his feet (just as Joseph's dreams said they would!) and Joseph asked how they were and is their father still alive? They told Joseph that their father is good and then Joseph looked up and saw his young brother, Benjamin. Joseph had to leave, because he was so happy to see Benjamin, he wanted to cry. Later, Joseph fed his brothers and sent them gifts. Joseph sent Benjamin 5 times the gifts that he sent to his other brothers. Joseph had their sacks filled full of food. Again, he had their money put in the sacks and he had his silver cup put in Benjamin’s sack. After just a little time passed, Joseph had his servants follow the brothers and ask them if they repaid Joseph by stealing from him. Joseph's servants searched every sack and found the money and silver cup. When Joseph told them that the one’s sack that held the silver cup would have to stay and be a servant, they said that they couldn’t do that. They told Joseph that their father would die if they came back without Benjamin. Joseph started to cry. He sent all of his servants out and with only his brothers left, Joseph told them that he was Joseph, their brother! He said not to be upset, because it was God’s plan for him to be in Egypt during this famine. Joseph hugged Benjamin and told them to bring their families to Egypt to live because there was still 5 years of famine, and he didn’t want them to die. Joseph gave his brothers wagons and food to get back home. When the brothers told Jacob that Joseph was still alive and governor of Egypt, Jacob couldn’t believe what they were saying. Jacob decided to go see Joseph. He was 130 years old. Joseph climbed in his chariot to go see Jacob when he arrived in Egypt, and they were so happy to see each other! Jacob went before Pharaoh and after they talked, Joseph took his family out to the best land in Egypt. Pharaoh told them to live there. Jacob was able to meet Joseph’s 2 sons Manasseh & Ephraim. Jacob lived in Egypt for 17 years before he died (147 years). Joseph was 110 when he died, and he was buried in Egypt. For the kids take home, I used the above brown bags (far right, at Hobby Lobby) and we put corn inside. I found the clear glasses at Dollar Tree and used the silver paint to paint them. I gave them a money bag for that part of the lesson, then they added the silver cup at the correct time. The brown money bags I purchase on eBay a lot cheaper, and they come from out of the country, so give yourself time if you plan to buy them that way. For the teacher visuals I used during the lesson, I found the silver cup at Party City, I used the same money bags the kids were given. I found the bags at Hobby Lobby for $1.99, in their assorted bag department. Then I added the corn (Purchased at TSC, or local farm supply store) into both bags. For the first bag, I just added the money bag, then the second bag, I added the money bag and the small silver cup. Today's project is a quick one but is a great reminder to love God and our family. Joseph put God first and obey Him, and he still loved his brothers even though they sold him into slavery. These are in black & white so they can be printed on color cardstock/paper. Cut the 2 large hearts as one so it can be folded in half. I used a hole punch and added ribbon so the kids can hang on these on their door handles. Or you can just fold them like a card. The kids will have heart stickers to add to them, or you can let them draw and color hearts. (The photo shows the front & back.) You can print it here. Click here to print. You can print all the Genesis worksheets here. Click here to download the 30 updated visuals. This is a variety pack for Genesis 39-46 since it covers so much! There is a visual(s) for each event that is in these chapters. Click here to download the pictures to color. (These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.) Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. Here is the cut & glue lift-the-flap worksheet that can be used by itself, or with the lapbook printables. Here are the lapbook printables: lapbook 1 lapbook 2 lapbook 3 See all the Genesis cut and paste worksheets and lapbook printables here.
Do your children need an introduction to scissors and cutting? Practice using scissors while creating Henry Matisse-inspired art!
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Some of the most common topics I see social workers and counselors teach is feeling identification and regulation. And it makes sense! Almost every student in need of counseling services could benefit ways to identify emotions in themselves or others, or learn ways to cope those feelings! As a result, I put together this activity ...
In 2008, I developed a self-portrait art lesson to help students express both their inner and outer selves, combining drawing, collage, and typography. I recently updated the project to include techniques like mixing skin tones, understanding facial proportions, and depicting diverse hair textures. This refreshed lesson not only enhances students' artistic skills but also encourages self-expression and identity exploration; find the full lesson plan on my website or TpT store.
Crafters of all ages will enjoy learning how to make gorgeous Rainbow Heart Suncatchers with tissue paper and glue, perfect for Valentine's Day!
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Dot marker printables and dot sticker sheets are such a fun and easy activity to do with toddlers and preschoolers. There are over 100 pages to grab!
This Star Wars R2-D2 craft was a big hit with my son and he doesn't usually like crafts. He was very proud of the R2-D2 he made! This post is part of the Star Wars Blog
