Archives for Arts & Crafts - Page 2
An Owl Craft for Outdoor Education
Outdoor education provides an excellent opportunity to help students connect with nature, discover new talents, and grow in their respect for classmates and teachers. These past two days my colleagues ...
Turn Your Kids’ Photos into Coloring Pages
I just love all the great ideas I can get from others by viewing their boards on Pinterest. If you haven't been there yet, you had better hurry! You are ...
Using Decorative Pizza Boxes to Collect Students’ Work
When students are making all kinds of great things during a unit of study, I hate to send their projects home one by one because they seem to get thrown ...
Stunning Egyptian Art Project Using Scratch Brite
If you've never used Scratch-Brite Paper, you will want to. This pre-inked gold color paper helps students create stunning pieces of artwork. I used some last week to help finish ...
Egyptian Chalk Portrait Art Lesson
My goal for last week's art lesson was to tie in our history unit on Ancient Egypt and introduce students to a new medium. The program Art Attacks that I ...
Making Egyptian Collars from Felt, Noodles and Beads
In her book, The Ancient Egyptians: Dress, Eat, Write and Play Just Like the Egyptians,Fiona MacDonald has a project for making an Egyptian collar that I just had to try. After ...
Uses for Leftover Crayons
For the past 10 years at the end of each school year I've collected crayons that my students no longer want. On my recent mission trip to India I took ...
A Twist on Grant Wood’s Famous Painting
After teaching students about Grant Wood and the meaning of his famous painting, American Gothic, I set them to work creating their own masterpieces.
Each student receives a coloring page of ...
Warm Up Winter with Felt Place Mats
During this time of year recess in Michigan can be cold and even freezing. To warm things up a bit I sometimes serve students hot chocolate or tea when they ...
Easy-to-Make Holiday Gift with Tic Tacs
Just before Thanksgiving I was sent to an Education Summit out of town. I'm always eager to visit local shops when I travel, especially ones that carry handmade crafts. On this trip ...