Recycled cardboard is one of my favourite materials for children’s art activities. I like it because it is readily available and free! Read more...
Kids can make these Colored Paper Collage Sculptures as a sculpture and colored paper collage project all rolled into one.
Download 19 worksheets on 3D or solid shapes (i.e. sphere, cone, cylinder, cube, rectangular prism or cuboid and pyramid) suitable for kindergarten class.
Cet après-midi, en une heure, nous avons réalisé une jolie oeuvre collective pour poursuivre notre travail sur la 3D (sculpture sur savon, personnages en fil de fer…) L’idée vient de là : clic Matériel : 12 Lire la suite…
Section general grammar tips. Teaching English online has become more and more popular in recent years. Through the following courses below, we will show you how to adapt your existing skills and knowledge to suit this specific area of the teaching world.
Materials Needed: Purple, yellow, tan paper Scissors Glue/tape Googly eyes Markers Watercolors Start by cutting a rectangle out of colored paper. Fold it back and forth until you get to the end. Pinch it together
Teaching geometry can be FUN! Take a look at these geometry videos, books, anchor charts, activities, games, and freebies! Perfect for 1st and 2nd grade!
Over the summer holidays, I've joined together with a group of bloggers to bring you weekly craft and play ideas using simple supplies from around the home or garden. We're starting with sticks (either sticks
If describing 3D shapes in kindergarteners in accordance with textbooks, in general, can certainly make it difficult for children to understand them because 3D shapes are still very new to learn even though they already know the shape of the objects around them.
Bring out your students' inner engineer with these amazing marshmallow and pretzel STEM structures! It's great as an entire class activity.
Welcome to Math Craft World! This community is dedicated to the exploration of mathematically inspired art and architecture through projects, community submissions, and inspirational posts related to the topic at hand. Every week, there will be approximately four posts according to the following schedule:
Looking for a fun way to teach 2D shapes? This marshmallow geometry activity will do the trick - and fill your tummy!
This Rainbow In A Jar Science Experiment is a fun spring science experiment to show density. Perfect to use as a science fair project too!
Make a 3d hot air balloon craft with your kids using paper and toilet paper rolls.
Shape Activity For Preschoolers This shape activity for preschoolers requires very simple materials. It is the perfect project for little...
Looking for awesome shapes worksheets for kindergarten and games to use in your classroom? This pack is filled with hands-on activities and no-prep worksheets to help children learn about and use shapes.
We’ve seen and reported on some impressive 3D printed anatomical models not to mention the bio-printed organs that constitute major breakthroughs in science and medicine. 3D printing has facilitated what...
My class was learning about 3-D shapes in maths this week. Here's how we used chickpeas and cocktail sticks to create cubes, cuboids, triangular prisms, triangular-based pyramids and square-based pyramids. I have also seen this done with marshmallows (though, I feel this way, the children are less likely to eat the lesson materials!).
We have had lots of fun exploring 3D shapes in our classroom over the past weeks. First we reviewed 2D shapes and we recreated this great anchor chart. If you know the original source of this anchor chart, please share it with me so I can give credit to the creator! I love this chart! (This is not my version, I forgot to snap a picture of mine!) The children made great connections between 2D and 3D shapes when they were on one anchor chart. We also sang this song PLENTY of times! We learned this poem (this chart is from Kindergarten Freckle Teacher) and sorted shapes from Mrs. Ricca’s Kindergarten. You can download her cards here. I love this anchor chart too – this is on my list to do for next year! This chart is from Literacy and Laughter. During play time, many children chose to play with our 3D shapes and sorting cards! We had a lot of sculptures being created after reading this fun book! Of course, we had to do the ‘ol marshmallow and toothpick 3D shape activity! The children had a blast with this – especially when they found out they could EAT the marshmallows when they were done! One of our MOST favorite activities have been these AMAZING Geometric Shapes Building Set from Learning Resources. The children are OBSESSED. It’s always a bit of a race to see who can grab these first during play time! I love seeing the learning of math transfer over to play time – and the math talk they’re using….AWESOME! They can be a little bit tricky to snap together (at least for me!), but the children really didn’t seem to have a problem connecting them all! Look at the creations they are making! Since we have been focusing on 3D shapes the children have really enjoyed building 3D shapes, but many children are also using them to build 2D shapes. I am excited to be able to use them to introduce 2D shapes at the beginning of the year. So Learning Resources would like to give away one of these awesome sets (valued at $39.99!!) to one lucky Growing Kinders reader! Simply enter in the Rafflecopter below! a Rafflecopter giveaway NOTE: If you have won a Learning Resources giveaway on any BLOG during the past 6 months, you are ineligible to win this giveaway! Once 6 months have passed, you can enter again. Thanks! You can connect with Learning Reources on Facebook, Twitter, and on Instagram! Oh, there is still a few more hours to catch the Teacher Appreciate Sale on TpT as well! Click on the image below to head over!
Kids make the coolest sculptures from rolled paper.
Feelings are widely misunderstood. Even by psychologists, philosophers, and neuroscientists. But if we look at them right — in terms of the the work they do in us — we can learn a lot. Here, I’ll…
Harold and the Purple Crayon is one of our favorite classic children’s books. We were inspired by the story to create these purple yarn art sculptures! Follow our Children’s Books & Activities Pinterest board! (This post contains affiliate links.) The Preschool Book Club is back this week with creative activities for kids inspired by the story, Harold …
I feel like all I've been doing this year is writing about boxes. These are the top and bottom of a long box that came along with our giant tube (which I've still not had the courage to cut up into shorter pieces). Watching children play with boxes makes me want to write a poem about them. Or sing a song. These they seem to like to hide under, together, making it feel for a few seconds as if there are fewer children at school today. Then suddenly they burst back out into the light, bringing with them all the sound and motion that we expect at Woodland Park. I wish I had a huge warehouse for storing these kinds of thing, but instead we need to use them up, wear them out, then either get them into the recycling bin or cut them up for art projects, like this incredible glue collage on which we've been working off and on for a couple weeks. A project built on a remnant of the last box we loved until it was no more. A collage made of the parts of other things we've used up, but not found the heart to throw out. And then when we're finished gluing, once it's all dry, then maybe we'll throw it out. If history is to be a guide, it will take a long time before that happens. I might even go over it a few weeks from now and pick it like carrion for parts to re-use yet one more time. In fact, I'm pretty sure much of it will soon be stuck to the side of our new long boxes. But not before we've loved them to pieces.
Céline Merhand and Anaïs Morel are the designers behind the French label, Les M, and they've created an environment to explore all five of your senses.
Hopkinton, Massachusetts-based sculptor Michael Alfano creates surreal sculptures that use the human body and face to interpret philosophical ideas. The
It has been confirmed by Studio Wim Wenders and Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partners that the news of Wim Wenders devoting his new 3D documentary...
For “Walhalla,” the canonical German artist Anselm Kiefer has taken up the entirety of White Cube’s massive Bermondsey space.
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So Paulo-based artist Lucas Simes has found an interesting way of depicting cinema in photography. There is a sense of motion in Simes' distorted line of
Resonant Chamber, an interior envelope system that deploys the principles of rigid origami, transforms the acoustic environment through dynamic...
From mundane to marvelous. This round up of zip tie art will have you taking a second look at this little piece of plastic.
The kindergarten curriculum for this 9 weeks calls for a paper sculpture... which is a perfect time to review lines. The students learned how to make all kinds of lines and glued them to a base. They were so pleased with them, and begged me to let them take them home right then. Of course I let them (I didn't tell them that I didn't have room to store them...hee hee).
CUT-AND-ASSEMBLE PAPER MODEL of the HUMAN EAR Target audience: Ages 10 and up (younger than 10 will need help assembling it) Materials needed: Copies printed onto lightweight …
We have had lots of fun exploring 3D shapes in our classroom over the past weeks. First we reviewed 2D shapes and we recreated this great anchor chart. If you know the original source of this anchor chart, please share it with me so I can give credit to the creator! I love this chart! (This is not my version, I forgot to snap a picture of mine!) The children made great connections between 2D and 3D shapes when they were on one anchor chart. We also sang this song PLENTY of times! We learned this poem (this chart is from Kindergarten Freckle Teacher) and sorted shapes from Mrs. Ricca’s Kindergarten. You can download her cards here. I love this anchor chart too – this is on my list to do for next year! This chart is from Literacy and Laughter. During play time, many children chose to play with our 3D shapes and sorting cards! We had a lot of sculptures being created after reading this fun book! Of course, we had to do the ‘ol marshmallow and toothpick 3D shape activity! The children had a blast with this – especially when they found out they could EAT the marshmallows when they were done! One of our MOST favorite activities have been these AMAZING Geometric Shapes Building Set from Learning Resources. The children are OBSESSED. It’s always a bit of a race to see who can grab these first during play time! I love seeing the learning of math transfer over to play time – and the math talk they’re using….AWESOME! They can be a little bit tricky to snap together (at least for me!), but the children really didn’t seem to have a problem connecting them all! Look at the creations they are making! Since we have been focusing on 3D shapes the children have really enjoyed building 3D shapes, but many children are also using them to build 2D shapes. I am excited to be able to use them to introduce 2D shapes at the beginning of the year. So Learning Resources would like to give away one of these awesome sets (valued at $39.99!!) to one lucky Growing Kinders reader! Simply enter in the Rafflecopter below! a Rafflecopter giveaway NOTE: If you have won a Learning Resources giveaway on any BLOG during the past 6 months, you are ineligible to win this giveaway! Once 6 months have passed, you can enter again. Thanks! You can connect with Learning Reources on Facebook, Twitter, and on Instagram! Oh, there is still a few more hours to catch the Teacher Appreciate Sale on TpT as well! Click on the image below to head over!
Recycled cardboard is one of my favourite materials for children’s art activities. I like it because it is readily available and free! Read more...
