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Create a Craft Circle Giraffe!
This adorable critter is simple and fun to make! Age: 5+ Duration: 10 Minutes Learning Outcomes: Exercise fine motor skills. Practice composing figures out of geometric shapes. Create adorable animal crafts. You’ll Need: R15701 Craft Circles R22052 Double Color Card Sheets Yarn Glue Stick Tape Scissors Pencil Washable Marker Decide what kind of animal you want to…
Read MoreNatural Materials Cuff Bracelet
This wearable art is a terrific fashion statement! Age: 5+ Duration: 10 minutes (excluding drying time) Learning Outcomes: Learn about the textures and properties of natural materials through manipulation of paper and card board. Exercise fine motor skills. You’ll Need: R15415 Indigenous Crafts Paper R39100 Wild Animal Craft Sticks Water White Glue R5725 Goo Spreaders…
Read MoreMake Miniature Moccasins
Create adorable moccasins that make a great take-home craft! This craft helps immerse students in Native American and First Nations cultural garb. We have included two templates: a larger one for take-home crafts and a smaller one that creates moccasins to fit on dolls! Age: 5+ Duration: 10 minutes Learning Outcomes: Explore Native American and First Nations cultural…
Read MoreSpotlight On: Curlicue Rods!
Weave, build and make shapes with these squishy, brightly colored sculpting rods! The strands come in five vibrant colors that are perfect for color-coordinating activities. Use indoors to make giant grids for rainy day math and sorting activities. Take them outside and make mazes, grids and play environments. Use inside to create play spaces! Each…
Read MoreSpotlight On: Fraction Friends Mosaics
These bright, beautiful circles are printed with fraction lines to create precise, proportional and pretty works of art! Fraction Friends Mosaics are multi-purpose classroom tools! Designed with both art and math lessons in mind, these circles make a set of unique math manipulatives for early numeracy and a student’s introduction to fractions. Sort and count…
Read MoreReally Big Tangrams
We scaled up these tans to scale up the fun of solving tangrams! Get ready to have fun with our Really Big Tangrams! You’ll have to make a lot of room on the floor for this huge version of the classic Chinese dissection puzzle. Learn to use mathematical principles by arranging the 7 pieces, called…
Read MoreMarble Paper Art Tiles
Bring color and beauty to the classroom with these simple but beautiful tiles! The middle of winter can feel long and dreary, so lighten up the atmosphere by creating art tiles! These tiles can be used to create a beautiful bulletin board, classroom door or hallway display. Alternatively, they make a simple but beautiful piece…
Read MoreSpotlight On: Counting Fingers Hand Book
Need a few extra fingers to count with? These hand-sized books make perfect math manipulatives! Each page is printed in fleshtone colors with foldable fingers to use as a math manipulative. Use the pages to practice numbering, writing out equations or for math journaling. Each book has a card stock front and back cover along…
Read MoreSpotlight On: Number Dolls
Make math cuddly and explore early numeracy with these brightly colored, size-scaled dolls! Even the most reluctant learner will want to engage with these plush, smiling dolls. Ranging in size from a 3 1/2″ doll in the shape of a 1 to a 6 1/4″ doll shaped like a 9, the numeric value of each…
Read MoreOrigami Dinosaurs
These adorable dinosaurs are the perfect addition to a diorama or as a Father’s day gift to a dino-rrific dad! Age: 4+ Duration: 10 minutes Learning Outcomes: Integrate art and science! Exercise fine motor skills. Create adorable take-home art. You’ll Need: R15311 Dinosaur Print Papers We loved dinosaurs as children and since the real things are sadly extinct,…
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