Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Personalized Portfolios
Get kids excited for an artful school year with this useful back-to-school craft! Every child needs a portfolio to keep their exceptional art and school work in. Get to know your students by having them personalize their portfolio! Age: 4+ Duration: 5-10 Minutes Learning Outcomes: Practice names, exercise fine motor skills, and encourage adding art to everyday…
Read MoreArt-A-Roni Emotions
Create colorful faces and use them to talk about emotions with young students! Age: 3+ Duration: 10 minutes (not including drying time) Learning Outcomes: Create beautiful take-home art. Talk about different emotions and the different ways people show emotions on their faces. Encourage empathy and emotional literacy. Exercise fine motor skills. You’ll Need: R51449 Face Pad R2111 Art-A-Roni®…
Read MorePaper Plate Pouch
This versatile craft has infinite applications in the classroom! Use as a fun and practical first week craft. Do students need something to keep personal items in at their tables? These pouches are perfect for manipulatives, writing utensils, small book and notebooks and bookmarks! Hang them onver the back of chairs, tape to the edge…
Read MoreMake Your Own Marbled Paper
A couple of years ago, we introduced our Foam Paint Bottles. Now, I’d like to walk you through a sensory-rich and beautiful activity: Marbled paper! The best part about this activity is that it can be both an end product and a craft component for other projects. First, I’ll take you through the marbling process.…
Read MoreJunior Heart Paint Pipettes
Use our Junior Heart Paint Pipettes and love your art! The pipettes have heart-shaped bulbs at the top that will encourage children to practice flexing and squeezing their fingers. Mix a few drops of concentrated watercolor paint or food coloring with about 2 cups of … Continue reading 
R15203 Decorative Hues Paper
This huge variety of paper patterns includes everything from subtle tints and complex patterns to super saturated solid colors! Excite your students’ imaginations with 192 sheets in a pack! Energize students’ visual development with patterns and color while introducing color … Continue reading
Accordion Critters
Bounce around with R10300 Accordion Critters! Use the full color animal projects to teach children how to fold paper accordion style—an essential exercise for developing fine motor skills. Paste the finished accordion-folded legs onto the cute animal characters and string them up … Continue reading
Super Slick Craft Paper Wands
Design beautiful shape wands out of Super Slick Craft Paper for fun events in your classroom! Kids can take the wands home or use them in the classroom to answer questions, as props in drama class or for general fun … Continue reading
Tessellations Mosaics
Inspired by Pattern Blocks, we’ve created 6 shapes that can be used to make wonderful tessellation patterns. Shapes are: equilateral triangle, rhombus, trapezoid, hexagon, square and small rhombus. Each shape is carefully crafted to match the sides and angles of the other shapes allowing … Continue reading
Welcome Back to the New Year!
Check out our top ten posts from 2015 as we celebrate a New Year! Continue reading