Western Craft Ideas to use for a Western Party or event! Kid friendly ideas! Easy to do and fun to make! Cost friendly, too!

Add a little fun to your kid's summer olympics fun with this I spy summer olympics kids I spy activity page free printable.

Totem Pole From Recyclables: This is a great Family project for Spring or Summer. Make this fun Totem Pole from discarded plastic containers and some paint. It's a really colorful Garden project for the whole family. Start saving all your empty plastic milk co…

Yee-haw! Throw a rootin' tootin' cowboy birthday party with these amazing cowboy themed desserts!

Make this cute and easy paper plate horse craft with the kid! It's a simple craft idea that comes with a free printable template. It's great for doing with preshcool, kindergarten and elementary aged children.

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Save Let’s make some music….. what a fun and inexpensive craft to make with your kids. They will love it and will want to rock out all day long. Here a

Print This CraftMake a Blackfoot Paper Teepee to add to your Thanksgiving decorations. Native Americans were an important part of ... Read More

There were so many special days we enjoyed together in our classroom in October. To begin, for Columbus Day we learned about our friend, Chr...

We already showcased on Recyclart some craft ideas made from upcycled clothespins. Today we will show you more than 50 DIY clothespin crafts ideas!

Here is a Texas style rhyme for your kiddos to have fun with. For more cute Texas style rhymes go to the Virtual Vine , here . I always have...

Our church has a great child care program and they often inspire me with their craft ideas. In my youngest daughter's class, they made these clever homemade harmonicas. When my daughters twin sisters saw her harmonica,

Before I show you today's art project, I have some news to share. This is my last week with my Pre-K class. Yes, I am leaving. I have a good reason, though. I currently work 20 miles from home and the commute has gotten to be too much. Especially in the winter. So when a pre-k position opened up at a center 5 minutes from my house, I took it. I will still be doing the same things and hope to continue my blog, but two things will be different. I won't have a co-teacher, which means I'll have a new theme for you every week instead of every other. And the themes are center-wide and chosen by the administrator. She is open to new ideas, so I'm hoping I'll still be able to do the themes I love. I am excited for this change, but sad to be leaving my class. It's at a good time, though. Most of them will be leaving for kindergarten in a couple weeks. But back to the blog. Today we started our Desert theme. I taught the kids about the Saguaro cactus and then we headed to the art table to make our own. I drew a cactus on a piece of paper and put out some crayons. I knew I wanted a bumpy texture for the sand and cactus, but I didn't have any sand paper. Then I noticed our walls are textured! So I let the kids color on the walls! Ooh, they loved doing that! They could also color other things in the background. Then I put forks in green paint and they pressed the forks onto the cactus. I also printed out an actual picture of a flower that grows on Saguaro cacti and each child glued one onto their picture. We had colorful cacti, as well. Fun Fact: It takes 60-75 years for the Saguaro cactus to grow its first arm. A cactus that has 5 arms is about 150 years old! Oh, and those white flowers? They bloom at night and last less than 24 hours.

Horse craft idea for preschoolers After a fun day of spring party& horse theme crafts, this afternoon I set up one final craft for the paper and paper plates to explore. Not only was it great to h

Kids will love playing with this soft. sand-like 2-ingredient "desert dough."

I am sure you have been wondering where we have been. We had such high goals on our blog when we started it at the end of last year. But wo...

Y'all have probably seen this floating around the bloggy world and wondering, "What the heck?" Well guess what, I have something to tell you - this Common Core State Standards: First Grade Workbook has been released! According to the website, here's the description: "This First Grade Common Core Workbook is the largest collection of resources for teaching the Common Core State Standards. This workbook includes over 550 pages of Worksheets, Activity Centers, and Posters that teach all the First Grade English Language Arts Common Core Standards and all the First Grade Mathematics Common Core Standards!" Boy, are they NOT kidding! This book is filled, and I mean FILLED, with worksheets, activities, centers, posters, and so forth that help teach BOTH English Language Arts standards and the Mathematics standards in first grade. If you are running out of ideas, this book is there to help. If you need extra work for those students that breeze through everything else, this book is there! First Grade Common Core standards have made their way into the classroom, so make sure YOU are prepared! Have a good day, y'all :)

This Christmas, get your little cowboys in the holiday spirit with this fun gingerbread cowboy craft. Download the FREE printable template and make it with the kids this December! With just a few simple materials, you'll have an adorable decoration to put on your fridge.

A cowboy costume is, without a doubt popular among'st kids. So what better way than to use his love for coloring with 10 free printable cowboy coloring pages

Last week at the History Center, the Toads got to pretend to make butter. Here's the post about that. They had such a fun time, I promised them we'd try the real thing soon. We don't have a butter churn at home but we were still successful. Here's what we did: We put one cup of heavy cream into a pint Mason jar. We let it come up to room temperature. We added 3 clean marbles. We put on the lid and shook. I seem to have a memory of butter taking forever to set up, hence why we added the marbles. I had a premonition of each kid shaking for 30 seconds and then I'd be stuck having to do the rest until I passed out. It only took 5 minutes and they did all of it! They've eaten their butter on pancakes and crackers and they're proud it's something they made. We saved the whey and that was the liquid in their latest batch of pancakes. Cooking up U.S History says virtually the same things as I did but they didn't suggest marbles. It's a great book that many homeschooling moms have recommended to me. It's getting hard to get, but perhaps your local library has it. I've shared this post: 733 Crafty Moms Share Imagination Tree Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons Ladybird Ln Lil Luna Milk and Cuddles

One of our favorite times of year in the 4 year old class is Rodeo Days! The kids love coming to school all dressed as little cowboys and cowgirls. Ms. Julie co

Get acquainted with some of Hawaii's most famous foods with this fun food map! Color in pineapples, poi and more.

Halloween is almost here and I see candy in your future! Look into my DIY Halloween Crystal Ball Shaker Tag and you'll see a future full of Halloween candy.

* Handmade in Australia * Cowboy Cowgirl boots banner in chocolate brown. 16 pieces. My original design, I make them from quality textured cardstock, and they feature a star shape on each. These boot shapes are approx: W: 11cm x H: 13cm Threaded onto a length of narrow white ribbon. You receive: - 16 boot cardstock shapes - on a length of white ribbon Made in Melbourne, Australia & packed with care. Sent via parcel post within Australia with tracking. Thank you.