I often run the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog's weekly themes past my husband and parents to get my creative juices flowing. This...

An artist study for Van Gogh, books for kids about Van Gogh, and painting artist trading cards in Van Gogh's style...

It's a fun pink balloon dog, but instead of the squeaky latex you get a fuzzy embroidered base. It's almost like a dog's fur... but on a balloon dog body... this is sorta trippy now that I think about it. Embroidered patch design Iron-on backing Fuzzy chenille pile body Custom, heat-cut edge Measurements: 4" x 3.5" The felt edge trim on this patch makes it easy to sew on for a super permanent hold. By Smarty Pants Paper Co.

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Learn all about the golden ratio, Fibonacci/golden spiral, and phi grid. Then put your new knowledge to work and make some great pics, smarty pants.

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A mini unit study for elementary school students about Pablo Picasso.

It has been a LONG 2 weeks...but my room is finally done! My fabulous sisters and my nieces came and did LOTS of help! I never would have finished if they hadn't helped. I must say, I think my room came out pretty good! And I must give credit where credit is due, as there are LOTS of things in my room that came from other bloggers...craft projects, wall displays, etc. You all are a great inspiration and have reminded me why I love teaching and how my kids deserve the best! You will see lots of links to other bloggers where ideas were inspired, begged, borrowed, stolen, and some tweaks! And now for the pictures.... The view from the door.... You can see The Pledge of Allegiance from Kristen, at Ladybug's Teacher Files Love her stuff! So cute and she makes AMAZING stuff...including this blog template! Here is the calendar math wall. These great cards were created by Lindsay and Kerri at teachersbitsandbobs. Then there is my SMARTboard!! Love that tool! This is my computer center. Student work will be posted on the wall behind it. Then there is this new addition this year...Bucket Filling...also inspired by Mel at Oh, the Places We'll Go. She had these fantastic signs to go on the wall! Love it! I have had so many questions and compliments about it...all thanks to her!!!! Underneath the board, is my writing station. The library.... you can see more here....back in the classroom. This is my comprehension tool board...the original file was purchased from Amanda at One Extra Degree. I added some boarder and tweaked it for my needs. Loved her posters! I painted clothespins orange and hot glued them to the board, so I could put the strategy posters up and take them down when I need to! I also hot glued some tools on the board. I have a toolbox with the toy tools and they have labels as to their strategy. Go give her some kuddos and purchase your own set of posters!!! This is my math manipulatives station. There is another cubbie shelf you can't see...I think I may have too many (and I gave away ALOT)! The picture on the right is another student work display on the cabinets which line the back of the room. This is the wall in the library...the chart is for recording AR quizzes...and Our Book List will be for recommendations. Our Book List came from Kristen at Ladybug's Teacher Files. FACE of a Reader board for comprehension strategies...header cards were purchased from Mrs. Balbaugh. She has a great packet for CAFE and Daily 5. The picture on the right is reading strategies from Jena at First Grade with Miss Snowden. I printed them smaller and added a border around them. They are too cute!! Here is my small group area and teacher stuff...I don't use a desk. Also, my summer project...binders FULL of all the great things teacher bloggers share!!!! On the top, you can see my pintrest inspired crayon box and pen cup. Whew!!! I think that is it!!! Kids on Monday and I am so excited to start fresh and renewed!! I kinda LOVE my classroom...I could almost live there...what do YOU think? Link up with TBA!

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I often run the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog's weekly themes past my husband and parents to get my creative juices flowing. This week's theme is the letter "I." When I asked my mom what came to mind for the letter I, the first three things she said (and I kid you not) were: isotope, ibis and incarceration. This is the problem with having a genius mother! I didn't even know what an ibis was (apparently some type of long-legged bird) and I certainly didn't have an isotope stamp handy. But bless her, my mom did inspire my "I" craft after all because I wanted to pay homage to her intelligence! So I made a little trio of trophies to celebrate the lovable smarty pants's in my life. I started out with Tim Holtz's trophies, which are a shiny silver. I Gesso'd the heck out of them, then painted them with Dina Wakley's acrylic paints and Tim Holtz Distress paint. While they were drying, I went looking for bases and decided to use some old ugly wooden stamps that I'd kept for just such a nonsensical purpose. I cut out squares of paper from Prima's Garden Fable collection and glued them onto the wood stamp blocks. I also stamped out the sentiments and glued them on as well. To fill my trophies, I used two girl images as well as one from Tim Holtz's Found Relatives cards (the girl with the turquoise crown). I glued a wooden spool into each trophy, then glued the girls to the tops of the spools and wrapped a "yarn nest" around each. I added some oomph to the trophies by gluing on some Washi tape (which wouldn't have stayed put without the glue) and adhered my trophies to their bases. Done! Sometimes we tease my mom about how smart she is, but it's more of an "in-awe" type of teasing. I grew up with a set of encyclopedias in the front room which, though now is at least 20 years out of date, still sits in my parents' house to this day. Whenever my mom doesn't know the answer to something, or wants to learn more, she'll drop whatever she's doing and look it up in the encyclopedias. She raised me to love learning and I owe her for keeping that love of learning alive in me. In addition to mom, my dad and my older brother saved me from a dark and dreary death in math while growing up, so I pretty much hit the jackpot with a super smart fam. I'm so grateful to all of them for teaching me that learning is cool and that it never has to stop. For my trophies, I used the following supplies from Simon Says Stamp: Tim Holtz Trophy Cups Prima White Heavy Gesso Dina Wakley Lime Acrylic Paint Dina Wakley LEMON Heavy Body Acrylic Paints Dina Wakley TURQUOISE Heavy Body Acrylic Paints Worn Lipstick Distress Paint Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry Distressed Paint Tim Holtz Squeezed Lemonade Distress Paint Tim Holtz Distress Paint In Spiced Marmalade Prima A4 Garden Fable Paper Hero Arts Basic Alphabet Stamps Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink Pad Black Sharpie Fine Point Pen Kaisercraft Blue Bay 6x6 Paper Idea-ology - Found Relatives Aleene′s Turbo Dry Glue Ranger Non Stick Craft Sheet I can't wait to see what inspires you and what interesting and inventive things you come up with for this week's "I" theme (see what I did there)? Be sure to upload your creations to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for the rest of us to see and to give yourself a shot at winning a $50 gift voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store.

How to make Puffy paint? It is a fantastic addition to any crafter's toolkit. Add food coloring and mix until you get the desired consistency

Christmas Around the World: learn how 19 different countries celebrate Christmas with recipes, crafts, activities, and traditions.

An art project for preschool age to explore the art of Eric Carle. Resource section Includes links to more art projects based on Eric Carle's books.

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The letter Z! We took a trip to the zoo first thing before it got hot! Before going, I printed off an alphabet chart and took zoo an...

This Salt Painting Science Experiment is a fun way to combine art and science. It is also a visual and hands-on way for children to learn about absorption.

We have done a lot of seasonal/holiday dot painting (you can find links to those at the end), but I wanted something that we could pull out and do whenever. These Shapes Dot Painting printables

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Students created these fabulous flamingos with construction paper, painted paper, oil pastels, feathers and tempera paint. What you will need One 9″ x 12″ piece of pink construction paper for the f…