Welcome Back to the New Year!

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Now that we’ve rung in the New Year, we are excited to share our ideas with you over the next little while. Stay tuned for blog posts in a range of subjects, using tools that you already have in your classroom!

We hope that you’ve enjoyed a year of posts from Little Fingers Big Art. Here’s a recap of 10 of our favorite posts:

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Use jelly on the Light Cube for a great sensory activity!

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Make lucky four leaf clovers for St. Patrick’s Day, coming up in March!

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Combine letters in a Word Mobile to generate literacy creativity in students!

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Guest post from Rebecca Milling about the wonderful creations made with our Straws and Connectors at St. Jerome’s Children’s Home in Nakuru, Kenya.

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Check out this neat step-by-step tutorial on how to make 3D wall art!

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Use our Tube Crafts to make a birdfeeder… or critterfeeder!

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Make beautiful tissue paper birds–a great fine motor skills activity!

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Check out our awesome Action Shapes People! Customizable action figures that your students can use for stop-motion animation projects!

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Imagine what dinosaurs really looked like with our Collage-A-Saurus and Dinosaur Paper Sheets!

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Turn old doodle paper into wrapping paper for someone’s birthday or for Christmas time!

These are our top ten for the year! Share your favorite post online with your friends.

Leave us a comment to let us know what kinds of posts you would like to see more of!

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Craft Spotlight: Heart Mosaics

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Available in a multitude of colors, sizes and designs, these Heart Mosaics will give your students’ projects a ‘lovely’ pop of personality! Watch a video at the cut to see the leafy tree art project we made with the Heart Mosaics!

Since Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, we’ve got several projects using the R15367 Heart Mosaics coming right up! Stay tuned for some more great ideas.

The package of Heart Mosaics contains over 2000 pieces to use. Glue down the Heart Mosaics as you would with regular mosaics. The Heart Mosaics guide is chockful of project ideas that will entertain your students. Assemble various sizes of Heart Mosaics together to make animals such as a rooster, seal, lion, peacock, bumblebee, fish, bird, dolphin, crab and more!

View the PDF guide HERE for more project ideas!

The best way to use the mosaics is to first design a project. Illustrate your basic artwork on a sheet of paper. Use the Heart Mosaics to fill the image in with color. You can also incorporate the shapes of the hearts into your illustration.

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In the video below, you can make your own handprint tree using the Heart Mosaics as leaves!

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Craft Spotlight: Floppy Foam Brushes

Feature-Image-FloppyFoamBrushesTry something new with your painting projects using our versatile and easy-to-use Floppy Foam Brushes! Dip the brushes into paint and dab onto your paint paper for neat effects. Floppy Foam Brushes aren’t only good tools for paint use… See what our Art Campers used them for below in the post!

_DSC0164Our Art Campers filled small plastic containers with white school glue and dipped in their Floppy Foam Brushes. Each Art Camper had a paper heart that was cut from colorful construction paper. _DSC0165The Art Campers then used the glue-dipped Floppy Foam Brushes to sprinkle the glue at random throughout the paper heart. Next, they poured multicolored glitter onto the paper heart and let the glue dry. _DSC0173The next step was to remove the excess glitter, which this Art Camper did by bending the sides of the heart and tilting it over a sheet of paper towel. Using a paper towel helped to eliminate mess by keeping the glitter in one particular spot. We simply funneled the remaining glitter into our glitter containers by curving in the sides of the paper towel and tilting it over the opening to help the glitter slide inside. IMG_2076What beautiful hearts! We left them to sun-dry which really showed off the gleam of the glitter and helped the hearts to dry that much quicker. Line-18Thanks for viewing this post! If you would like to showcase your own painting techniques or have interest in any of the products showcased in this post, please email us at subscriber@roylco.ca for more details! We’d love to hear from you!