Education & Inspiration
Create beautiful holiday ornaments with stringing stars and glitter chenille stems! Age: 4+ Duration: 5-10 minutes (plus drying time) Learning Outcomes: Practice pattern following. Exercise fine motor skills. Create a beautiful, take-home holiday craft. You’ll Need: R16024 Stringing Shapes: Stars R54466 Junior Paint Spritzers Glitter Chenille Stems Liquid Watercolor Paint Pencil To begin this craft, each child will…
Immerse your students in the Japanese art of Kirigami! Kirigami is a variation on the Japanese art of origami. Unlike origami, however, the folding is not the end product for kirigami. Cuts are made in the paper, and then the sheet is unfolded to reveal the cut-paper artwork! Our kirigami sheets are printed with numbered…
Celebrating the season doesn’t mean just focusing on Christmas. You can create inclusive crafts that all of your students will love to make. Here are some suggestions for fun art projects that are open ended enough to relate to Christmas, Diwali, Kwanzaa, New Years or just the first snowfall! Practice patterning and sequencing while creating…
These spritzers are the perfect new tool for art classrooms! Create beautiful works of art with these adorable, elephant-headed paint sprayers! Fill the sprayer bottle with liquid watercolor paint, point the elephant’s head down and squeeze the elephant ear-pump to spritz out a fine mist of color onto craft paper. Make yourself a rainbow of…
Can YOU solve this math mystery? Today we are demonstrating a fun activity that uses our technique for folded mini booklets, and will help get kids excited about math! Challenge each student to write their own math mystery, then mix them up and challenge their peers to solve the mysteries. Age: 5+ Duration: 15 minutes Learning Outcomes: Explore…
This simple craft base is perfect for all kinds of classroom projects! Are students getting bored with writing? Has math lost it’s luster? Everything is more special when it is published! Reinvigorate students by teaching them how to create this little booklet and writing their own stories, favorite math facts, “All About Me” arts and…
Be an emotions super hero with this snuggly doll! This doll is an emotional super hero! Use it to encourage students to talk about their own moods and emotions. This cuddly doll comes with lots of different Velcro® facial features, allowing you to decide what the doll is feeling. Store other emotions on the doll’s…
Make literacy visual and tactile with these colorful, squishy letters! They are perfect for light table play! Appeal to the senses while learning the alphabet and spelling simple words! For students with fidgety fingers, these squishy letters make learning language tactile. The small disc inside each letter allows students to develop fine motor skills. Children…
These classroom friendly crafts integrate cultural crafts and mathematics to create a beautiful piece of art! Dream catchers originated with the Ojibwe people. Traditionally, dream catchers were hung over cradles to protect babies and young children from bad dreams. Dream catchers can be simple wooden hoops with leather, rawhide, or plant-based cords used to create…
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In…