Education & Inspiration
These adorable fish are perfect as classroom decorations or as display pieces for reports and presentations! Age: 4+ Duration: 5 Minutes Learning Outcomes: Practice folding accordion-style. Exercise scissor skills. You’ll Need: R15312 Sealife Design paper Scissors Pencil Tape Start by folding your sheet of paper in half, hamburger style. Draw an outline of a fish. Remember, you have…
Read MoreThis good enough to eat craft is a great way to practice shapes! Age: 4+ Duration: 10 minutes (plus drying time) Learning Outcomes: Exercise fine motor skills. Practice scissor skills. You’ll Need: R2183 Fancy Stringing Rings Paper Plate Washable Marker Crayons White glue Scissors Start this craft by cutting a hole in the center of your paper plate. Use…
Read MoreThese adorable puppets will brighten up a winter classroom! Age: 4+ Duration: 10 minutes (plus drying time) Learning Outcomes: Exercise fine motor skills. Talk about different animals and plants. Create beautiful puppets for imaginative play and to use as props for reports. You’ll Need: R22052 Double Color Sheets R5615 Nature Stencils Glitter Glue Self-adhesive Gems (available at crafts…
Read MoreThis adorable origami project is perfect for desks or as a holiday gift container! This origami project looks professional and beautiful when it is complete, but it’s simple enough for little fingers to easily fold! Age: 4+ Duration: 5-8 minutes Learning Outcomes: Introduce students to origami. Exercise fine motor skills. Practice precise folding techniques. Use in the classroom…
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Put all four seasons on one very special tree! This is an adorable piece of take-home art that explores seasonal changes. Winter, spring, summer, fall! Each season brings changes to the world around us, and one of the best ways to see these changes is to look at the trees and plants outside. Using tempera…
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Integrate early geometry and holiday spirit with this adorable craft! Sponge painting is a tactile and fun activity! By combining our R55009 Shape Sponges with tempera paint and some old-fashioned Christmas Spirit, we have come up with a great way to integrate early geometry and holiday art! Age: 3+ Duration: 15-20 minutes (plus drying time)…
Read MoreCreate 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…
Read MoreImmerse 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…
Read MoreCelebrating 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…
Read MoreThese 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…
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