Turn those paper cups into some super cute crafts like a jellyfish, bee or even some sweet love bugs! Sure to inspire kids of all ages!
For Wellness Coach Wednesday, I had the pleasure of speaking with Leigha Benson, Certified Wellness Coach and graduate of IAWP. We talked about her journey
If you're looking for art ideas for your kids, look no further! Encourage creativity and artistic expression with these fun, easy art activities for kids, including watercolor paintings, craft stick projects, simple stamped art, and more.
Do you remember how to make a paper cup phone? Does yarn work for cup phones? Teach your child how to make a string phone with cups and test how far it works.
The Best STEM Challenge for Grades 2-5 Improve Student Learning with a STEM Challenge The Roller Coaster STEM Challenge from my May STEM Challenges pack covers a variety of standards related to force and motion. Students discover the difference between potential (stored) energy and kinetic (working) energy. Students also learn about friction, momentum, and gravity....
Use cardboard, craft sticks, and hot glue to create an epic marble run! The marbles land in paper cups at the bottom of the track. This is a fantastic engineering challenge for kids. How should we position the sticks? Which path will the marbles take? How many will land in each cup? As always, make […]
Kids will have a blast designing a paper plate marble track! Fun STEM challenge and a great boredom buster too.
It's been a while since I did a pour with peacock colors. That color palette really appeals because of the shimmering iridescence of the peacock feathers so today I will be attempting to create an acrylic pouring flip cup with negative space to resemble (loosely) a peacock's tail!
This is quite possibly the coolest thing I’ve ever seen! It can be time consuming to find the perfect combination of fonts and text effects for your document (e.g. bold, font color, outer glow, bevel, etc). If you found that perfect combo in Word or PowerPoint (particularly if you used fancy font embellishments) and want […]
In any special education classroom, we are all about trying to save valuable school time. This doesn't mean we are taking the "easy way out," it just means we are finding simple hacks to do our job quicker and more efficient. Here are a few teacher tips for making your teacher life easier on the daily: In my classroom, Friday is our super fun day. Not only do we do Fun Food Friday and Coffee Cart, but we also do Fine Motor Friday. It's a great way to motivate kids during the week, not to mention how beneficial actually having Fine Motor centers all day long every Friday is! If your students utilize a slant board in the classroom, then this hack is perfect for you. I despise making bulletin boards... honestly, I will put up one bulletin board for the school year and that's it. I would rather spend my time on something else. :) So I started printing clip art in poster size! To do this I simply make the clip art image the size of one PowerPoint page, save it as a PDF and then print it in poster size. Once it prints, you'll need to cut it out and put it together (kind of like a puzzle). But once you have it put together, it's together forever! Laminate it to reuse it year after year! My last hack is perfect for the classroom that includes a student who likes to turn the classroom lights off and on. Simply cut a paper cup in half and tape it over the light switch. One great suggestion shared on my Instagram was to Velcro a plastic tub over it (for those of you who have double or triple switches). Follow me on Instagram for more teacher timesavers and classroom hacks.
Kids will love this easy interactive Paper Cup Flying Ghost Craft. Pull the strings to make the ghosts fly up and down! A spooky and fun STEM project for kids!
Oh my goodness, this is such a fun activity, and you can put it together with any LEGO® bricks you own! Use bricks to create a code. Then kids can build and de-code secret messages! Create Your Code The concept of this activity is quite simple – create a code using a different brick for […]
Listening skills can be sometimes challenging to little ones, especially with the short attention span they have. The great news is, this skill can be practiced! These listening games for preschoolers are a fun way
Classroom ideas for middle school, high school and college composition teachers.
From mixed media to simple sketching, there's something here for every 1st grader.
I am SO excited by being able to blog about making a collage of words in any shape! So many people know about Wordle which lets you make awesome “word clouds,” but today we’re going to play around with a fun website called Tagxedo, which in my opinion, is like Wordle on steroids! Now, onto […]
This is such a fun craft. The kids love walking around with their new Kaleidoscopes. I love how simple it was to make! Come on in and I’ll show you how to make this Easy Kaleidoscope Craft, today: This is a great craft for a sunny day. It might require a trip to the birthday …
Here’s another activity to add to the list of things to do with the kids this Summer — Make your own water pistol target range! Emily and Clara had such a GREAT time with this, and it’s super easy to set up. Start by stacking some paper cups into a pyramid shape, as shown below. […]
GENIUS Fast Food Napkin Transformation | napkin
When the most recent of issue of Family Fun magazine arrived last week, we did one of the activities right away! These rocket launchers made out of plastic cups were fun and very easy to make! To make one, cut 4 slits in the top rim of a plastic cup. They should be about 1/2 […]
Artist Gwyneth Leech collected more than 800 used coffee cups and has hand-drawn on each one to create a colorful hanging art installation in the Flatiron Building.
If you’re looking for an indoor space craft activity that excites your kids, get this printable Jupiter craft template! This printable Jupiter outline template is the ideal activity for children who are studying the Solar
