Even if you’re not in the education world, you know who Eric Carle is. A beloved author who made his mark in children’s literature with his timeless stories and unique art. From timeless classics like The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Tiny Seed , his stories have inspired young readers. Hi
Its getting to be time to plant tulips. I love looking through the Sarah Raven catalogue and ordering a few special ones each year. Just cut this off the drawing board. I did it really quickly over lunchtime during the last surface decoration course I taught. I just used up all the scraps in the style of the great Eric Carle ( he of The Very Hungry Caterpillar).
Voici le premier album que nous allons étudier en GS pour le mois de septembre 2012. Comme tous les livres d'Eric Carle, les dessins sont splendides, les sujets variés et l'histoire plaît aux enfants . Avec cette ouvrage nous allons découvrir : - l'évolution...
Eric Carle’s art is distinctive and instantly recognizable. Why not introduce your kids to Eric Carle with these 10 free printable eric carle coloring pages
As part of a Kindergarten art lesson on value and texture, we did a few Eric Carle-inspired texture collage craft activities.
One of my absolute favorite units to teach throughout the year has got to be my Eric Carle author study. Usually my little nuggets have been exposed to Eric Carle's work before they come to me, but it's mostly superficial. They have heard the classics, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, The Grouchy Ladybug, etc. However, they haven't REALLY been exposed to the amazing person, author and illustrator that he is!! I pack my classroom library FULL of the classics and those lesser known little gems that they have never seen or heard of!! I begin my unit with a video that I purchased on amazon a few years ago called Eric Carle: Picture Writer I watched this video in one of my Early Childhood classes at Oklahoma State and I fell in love with this adorable little man right then and there!! He talks about his childhood, how he became an artist and author and he demonstrates his technique...which absolutely mesmerizes my little ones each and every year!!! Throughout the week we read as many stories as we can fit in and I have thematic centers during our play time that are based upon his stories. By the end of the week they are begging for more and are sad to see the books go back to the library. But the absolute best part of the WHOLE unit is when we visit the library for the rest of the year they are practically wrestling in front of the Eric Carle section to check out a book to take home and share with their families. It makes me smile to see them so excited about books!!! Here's a little glance at our week of Eric Carle in our classroom..... Eric Carle Thematic Centers Sensory table based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar...filled with green dyed rice, a plush toy that I found on Amazon and the items that the caterpillar ate throughout the book that the students can use to retell the story as they play. So simple, but so engaging!! My classroom library full of every Eric Carle book I could get my hand on using my personal books, our school library and our local library!!! I didn't want them to miss out on ANYTHING!!! ANNNNNDDDD here is my passion folks....my favorite center to plan of all centers in all of the entire universe!! DRAMATIC PLAY!!!! What on earth can you do for Eric Carle week in dramatic play, you ask?? Well, how about basing it on the story Pancakes, Pancakes !! I purchased a cutie patootie breakfast play set from my second favorite place...Amazon... and set up my kitchen for my little nuggets to cook away!! There's more to this center later...just wait, it's AMAZING!! You have GOT to have art during an Eric Carle unit, of course. So this week we mod podged tissue paper squares onto our initials to create and Eric Carle inspired project!! They turned out beautifully!! For some fine motor work instead of regular old play dough, which, don't get me wrong...they LOVE...but this week I changed it up a bit and made some cloud dough based on the book, Little Cloud. Such a simple recipe!!It's only 2 ingredients...flour and vegetable oil or baby oil. 1 cup oil to 8 cups of flour....can't get any easier than that!!! I found this awesome Eric Carle ABC floor puzzle on Amazon!! This kid LOVES puzzles so I make sure I have one every week!!! Block area is based on the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear where I have provided some bears and I borrowed these awesome natural blocks from a co worker for my little ones to build bear habitats. They love these blocks and the BEST part is they were FREE!!! My friend had a log that my handy hubby cut into pieces for her and VOILA you have natural building blocks!! Now, I need to find myself a log and have hubs make me some!!! ANNND the most exciting, engaging, messy, amazing, hands on activity yet!!!! We put our learning to work and we CREATE!!! Just like the master himself! My favorite part is how they use his technique and his vocabulary and they are talking about texture and color and mixing!!! It is absolutely and completely satisfying to listen to them create these beautiful papers that we will, as a class, turn into a mural that will hang in our hallway for all to see!!! The mural is still under construction, so I will add it when it is complete!! IT'S DONE! We incorporated our Eric Carle painted papers into our ocean unit and created and Under the Sea mural!! Isn't this mural beautiful? I had each child choose an under water animal or plant that they wanted to add to the mural. Then they chose the color they wanted for their choice. I either traced their choice (on the SmartBoard, just by pulling up an image and placing the paper on it and tracing with a marker) or I free handed what they chose. We then put them all together and hung it in the hallway to show off our amazing artwork!! Next to dramatic play planning, another one of my favorite things to do in the classroom is COOKING!!!! We cook a lot and I have a small kitchen in my room that I have built throughout the years. I have a microwave, crock pot, hot plate, griddle and all of the utensils and products to whip up something on a whim!! Sometimes, I make my kiddos fresh chocolate chip cookies just for fun and they get to enjoy them right out of the oven.....that is heaven!!! But, to end our unit we read Pancakes Pancakes I pull out the griddle and they get to turn their own pancake and put it on their plate and add their toppings. We do this first thing in the morning so they think it's so cool to have a "second breakfast"....like that's super sneaky!!! And there you have it folks!!! That is my Eric Carle Author Study in a nut shell!!! I hope you find it inspirational and as enjoyable as we do each year!!!!
Eric Carle’s art is distinctive and instantly recognizable. Why not introduce your kids to Eric Carle with these 10 free printable eric carle coloring pages
Discover fun and easy Eric Carle activities to do with your child! Here are a few ways to create art, games and activities inspired by the popular children's picture book author and illustrator Eric Carle.
Includes free printables for a color sort, writing activity, and alphabet activity. Great ideas to use with Eric Carle's book,The Mixed-Up Chameleon.
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Today we read Eric Carle's Hermit Crab. After discussing the book and talking about the letter C and sequencing, we made ourselves into a hermit crab. We took special care to decorate our shell just like the hermit crab in the story.
Children can paint a flower and learn with our FREE printable activity pack inspired by The Tiny Seed. This is a perfect activity for spring or summer.
I am sure I’m not alone in my love of Eric Carle. With The Very Hungry Caterpillar turning 40 this year there is a veritable boom of products sporting the distinctive collages from the book. …
Eric Carle's pictures are how many children the world over are introduced to art. Celebrate this incredible artist with these Eric Carle Crafts for Kids.
What a busy week! I can’t believe it is only Thursday! Well we’ve been up to our elbows in plants this week. Here’s a peek at what’s been “sproutin”” in our classroom! To kick off our seeds and plants unit, we’ve been using The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle (You can check out this special […]
Get creative and make some beautiful, colorful masterpieces - it's a fun and easy way to add some extra joy to your home. Crafts For A Good Story Time
Learning about cloud shapes? Try this fun ink blot cloud shapes activity to go along with Eric Carle's Little Cloud book.
We are learning about the phenomenal artist and author Eric Carle in second and first grade art class! We read some of his books, inclu...
Today's Eric Carle book was The Mixed-Up Chameleon . After teaching the kids about chameleons (like how they actually change color according...
Aren't Eric Carle pictures just amazing? This post will focus on an artist study and art lesson, so it can be used with children.
Eric Carle is another favourite author of mine! In fact, I love to do an author study with his books and then have students create their own art work in his style! However, many of the books are a bit challenging for my beginning French Immersion students so, for today’s installment of Read Aloud Wednesday […]
Le titre réel de cet album d' Eric Carle est " Papa, please get the moon for me " et en français " Décroche-moi la lune " Beaucoup se sont inspirés de cette image du livre où l'on voit le papa grimper sur une longue échelle pour tenter d'attraper la...
Ah the contour line drawing of your shoe. Can't get more classic art class than that. And it is a classic for a good reason. Working on contour line drawing is a huge stepping stone for student's to be able to realistic draw people and objects. Contour line drawing expands student's grasp of line, shape, proportion and form. In my mind Picasso was the King of awesome contour line drawings! Of course there is blind contour line drawing and pick up your pencil vs. one line contour line drawings. I think it is great to practice sighted, unsighted, pick up your pencil and "No picking up your pencil!" of whatever object you are drawing before you get to the final project. When doing a sighted contour line drawing I tell the kids to imagine their eyes and pencil are directly connected. Your eyes should be tracing the object SLOWLY....like a snail creeping along its contours. As slowly as your eyes are tracing you hand should also be moving. Perspective and proportion get off when either the eye or the hand get ahead of one another. heheh! from Inner City Snail....a awesome artist/ art movement But what do we do with that completed contour line drawing before putting it on display? I usually make the kids ink over their pencil lines with micro sharpie and then create a background. For this 6th grade wheel lesson...where we are short on time and trying to hit as many skills as possible, we took a pop art approach to the background. Students are asked to find two shapes, lines or patterns that occur in their shoes design (can be from any part of the shoe...even the tread...we don't have to see it in the line drawing). They need to take those designs, enlarge them and create a pop art style background with the knowledge that it will be painted. BLOGGER WHY WHY DO YOU DO THIS!!!! The backgrounds get painted while learning how to crate tints and shades. While some years I have allowed tinting and shading of a single color, I find a black, white and shades of gray background tends to produced the best end result. I require at least three shades and say white may be used but no straight black. That is because I want everyone outlined in sharpie when the painting is done. oh I give up with the photos and the rotating and such. When the background is painted and dry, we carefully cut out our shoe and glue it on for the finished work of art. Ta da! P.S. I provided a collection of shoes that students can choose to draw from so they don't have to take off their own shoe if it makes them uncomfortable. Stinky feet and such.
« Le coq qui voulait voyager » d'Eric Carle, est un support idéal pour apprendre à lire et calculer.
My daughter's dance recital is coming up next weekend, and although the costume is pretty (see pic below), it came with nonadjustable straps that were super tight on her. What a pain! Luckily there was extra length on the straps. But of course I had to undo the stitches and re-size them to make it
1-2-3 Come Do Some Activities For "Polar Bear What Do You Hear?" Bill Martin's ”Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?” is one of my Y5s all-time favorite stories. With that in mind, I just finished designing some quick, easy and fun activities children can transitio...
En la entrada anterior os puse el cuento "The very hungry caterpillar" hecho por mi hija de 4 años, ahora os voy a poner el hecho por mi hija de casi 7 años, que es más original. Para nosotros este libro es uno de los mejores que hay para niños. Está muy bien en castellano, pero si se quiere fomentar el inglés es uno de los mejores desde mi punto de vista. Y como nos gusta tanto, el libro, lógicamente nos hemos esmerado con la manualidad, y está para mi será de las mejores manualidades que hemos hecho, o al menos de las que más llaman la atención y más trabajo tienen. También utilizamos esta manualidad para para hablar del cuento en inglés, trabajando los números, los días de la semana, los estadios de oruga-mariposa... Esta vez en vez de un libro normal, lo que hemos hecho ha sido hacer el cuento en una oruga, donde cada anillo de la oruga es una hoja. ¿Vemos hoja por hoja el libro gusanito? ¿Qué os parece la idea? Nos costó un poco sacar el molde, la idea, las hojas... pero al final ha quedado genial. Por cierto, el libro tenía una hoja más para separar la hoja que se come al final, pero tuvimos un percance, y la tuvimos que eliminar. A Iranzu le encantó hacer esta manualidad. El libro lo conocía y le gustaba mucho así que le motivaba un montón el hacerse su propio libro de la oruga glotona. Dedicó mucho tiempo en varios días a pintar cada dibujo, recortarlo, pegarlo... fue un gran esfuerzo, pero el resultado mereció la pena. Aquí os pongo un poco el proceso de hacer el libro por si os interesa echarle un vistazo. Si quieres ver información sobre el libro, visita The very hungry caterpillar, de mi otro blog Lecturasconmishijas, allí está el cuento con imagenes en castellano, y también el cuento en youtube tanto en castellano como en inglés. Y si os ha gustado, también podéis comprarlo, aquí os dejo el enlace de compra del libro en amazon (a través de mi enlace de afiliada): Y por supuesto, no podían faltar los moldes (alguno difiere de la entrada anterior): Para que sea más fácil el imprimir, por si te interesa más, he puesto un PDF con las medidas exactas que hemos impreso las imágenes. Lógicamente son menos hojas, y las imágenes más pequeñas que en la manualidad de la entrada anterior. Imprimir The very hungry caterpillar - 7 años Espero que os haya gustado esta manualidad tanto como me gustó a mi. Me costó bastante organizar la oruga con sus hojas, el tamaño exacto para que entrase todo en un espacio tan pequeño... pero el resultado creo que ha merecido la pena. Para pinear en pinterest Si te ha gustado este libro, no te puedes perder la versión para niños de infantil, The very hungry caterpillar - 4 años: ACTUALIZACIÓN 2015: Mira que ya hace tiempo que hicimos esta manualidad, pero aún hoy tenemos nuestra oruga por casa y la seguimos utilizando. Ahora es Iranzu la que le cuenta el libro a David en inglés (en plan sencillito, pero en inglés). Si te gusta el libro, aquí tienes el libro de amazon para comprarlo: Besicos, ¿Te gustan nuestras manualidades infantiles? ¿Te has perdido alguna publicación? ¿No estás segura/o? Apúntate aquí para que no se te pase ninguna. ¡Ah! Y no te olvides de seguirme en facebook o por e-mail.
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Eric Carle is a name Moms everywhere are familiar with. On his birthday, we feature the top 10 Eric Carle books for toddlers to read and make!
If you live near Boston you won't believe how beautiful it is out !! The kids keep saying !! The kids keep saying It's Summer!! These are some poems my class is learning this week during Shared Reading Time. Each child will get a copy for their poetry books. During Daily 5 Time a must do read a new poem/song chart. The student's illustrate their small copy to practice during Read To Self Time! Happy Spring!! word chunk OOK ~sight words and, you The kids love this poem!!! Click Here For Spring Poems {Drop Box}
Ahhh, summer! Is there any better time of the year? Spring allergies have settled, mosquitos are aplenty, the nights are short, and the days are fragrant with meadows and wildflowers. Truly, the most wonderful time to spend all your time outdoors. Unless, that is, you live in Furnace Creek; then summer might be a curse word for you. However, we believe that the majority of people can soak in the sun without shriveling to a dehydrated lump of hide, and if you’re looking for some summer activity ideas to make the most of this gorgeous season, this is our list dedicated to exactly that.
