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.

ben on the map and where he fits :) fantastic learning project ... thanks to pinterest or i never would have found jenn's awesome learning idea! day eighty four and we have social studies this afternoon. i wanted to incorporate some web research, some art, and also provide the kids with a really good understanding of where they fit in the world. i figured this idea by jenn from finally in first could be adapted to my older kids with regards to adding some research to it :) my kids love visual learning so i am hoping the increasing circles will really resonate with them :) the circles i cut out for today's project :) i cut out the circles for both children and then asked them to do something different for each of the areas according to their abilities: pollyanna (year two) me - draw a picture of yourself home - draw our home street - draw our street and write down the name of it town - using the internet, find some pictures of our town to print out and attach to the circle our island - find out what the biggest city is in our island, draw our island our country - find out what the capital of our country is and print out a map of new zealand to attach to this circle out continent - find out all the continents and print a picture of the one you live in our planet - draw our planet and research two interesting facts about our planet pollyanna's project :) benjamin (year five) me - draw a picture of yourself and on the back describe you :) home - draw our home, write down your favourite place to be at home and one thing you would change to our home if you could street - draw a map of our street including a compass indicating north town - find out when our town first became a town and what its main industry was our island - draw our island and find out what the five most populated cities in our island are our country - find out what our national flower and animal is and draw them .. print out a map of new zealand to attach to this circle our continent - print a picture of our continent and name five countries that below to it on the back of the circle our planet - draw our planet and research five interesting facts about our planet benjamin's project ... they looked so cool finished! outcome: this project was totally awesome ... i gave the kids the labels and i helped polly organise hers by size focusing on just adding one more circle at a time, discussing that and then moving to the next largest circle. it was really exciting seeing ben researching with such interest, i guess because he could see instantly what the project was about and he was very inspired by the little size of his world compared to the ACTUAL world he belonged to ... visually and conceptually this project was outstanding for the kids with regards to identifying and comparing themselves to others and their communities because on geographical reasons. my sincere thanks goes to jenn from finally in first for this outstanding idea, it really helped with understanding the world as a whole and how towns and countries fit into that space ... especially for pollyanna. its wonderful teachers like jenn that make the little peeps of today so successful later in life :)

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My little boy is going to be 2 in less than a month. Time to get thinking about his party. He loves music so we thought we would do a music party this year. Here are two cake ideas, which do you like? boom box from family fun (don't worry those speakers are mint patties) Keyboard from Sara's Party Perfect For the decor, I'm thinking about making a guitar and records or stars out of cardboard. Here are instructions for the guitar. As far as activities go, I thought maybe we'd play musical chairs and make some homemade musical instruments. Here and here are some instrument ideas. What do you think? Anything to add?

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Yesterday was my big guy's first day back at school. Can you say First Grader?! I can not believe it! Anyway, one thing we do is pack a lunch almost everyday! Here is a peek at yesterday's lunch. I love putting notes in his box just to let him know that I'm thinking of him. Here are a few I created! Character elements are from several of the kits at Just So Scrappy. Feel free to snag the note cards below if you like and come back tomorrow and the next day to get some lunchbox Joke Cards and Bible Verse Cards! Click on image below to enlarge, click on it again to enlarge even more, right click and save. Print at home (I used card stock) and cut. Hope you like them! Let me know if you do. It's nice to know those kind of things. Thanks for stopping by!

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