Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Celebrate Mardi Gras with Gorgeous Color Diffusing Masks
Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday”, reflecting the practice of the last night of eating rich, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season. It always falls the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. It is a time of great celebration where people throw parades and parties. Today we are going to teach you how to use…
Read MoreElementary Animals: Fold a Pig!
Welcome to our fourth origami animal project! Today we’ll be focusing on a project ideal for third graders: folding a pig! Age: 7+ Duration: 10 Minutes Learning Outcomes: Practice following step-by-step directions while exercising fine motor and spatial skills. You’ll Need: R15219 Elementary Origami Animals Pig Folding Instructions (POST INSTRUCTIONS) Glue Stick Googly Eyes If you structure…
Read MoreElementary Origami Animals for 1st Grade
Welcome to the second installment of our elementary origami series! Today, we’ll be focusing on two 1st grade projects: The fish and the fox! Age: 4+ Duration: 5 minutes Learning Outcomes: Practice following step-by-step directions. Exercise fine motor skills. You’ll Need: R15219 Elementary Origami Animals Washable Markers Googly Eyes Glue Stick We’ll start with the fish today. Under…
Read MoreMake Chinese Lanterns for Chinese New Year
The Chinese Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar. It marks the final day of the traditional Chinese New Year celebrations, and it falls on March 2nd for 2018.During the Lantern Festival, children carry paper lanterns and go out at night. People also go to temples to solve riddles…
Read MoreGreen Screen Tips, Tricks and Technology
Today we will explore some tips, tricks and troubleshooting strategies for making amazing green screen videos in your classroom! Using a green screen is much less frustrating that creating stop-motion animation, but there can be a learning curve with any new style of film making! This post is designed to walk you through the…
Read MoreSpotlight On: Green Screen Live Action Kit
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…Green Screen filming! Roylco would like to introduce you to our new R72020 Green Screen Live Action kit! Our kit includes six 18 x 24” (46 x 61 cm) plastic green screen sheets and twenty-four 1 x 18” (2.5 x 46 cm) green sticks. Go to our website, https://roylco.com,…
Read MoreSpotlight On: Super Simple Kirigami
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…
Read MoreJunior Paint Spritzers
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…
Read MoreRemembrance Day
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…
Read MoreFrog Mask
This adorable mask is a perfect addition to your costume closet! Wear it Trick-or-Treating too! Age: 4+ Duration: 15 minutes (plus drying time) Learning Outcomes: Augment student presentations with this adorable costume piece. Exercise fine motor skills. Create wearable art. You’ll Need: R52083 Wild Animal Fold-Up Masks R15653 Circle Popz Washable Markers Scissors White Glue Tape Today we…
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