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Letters of The Alphabet Coloring Pages

Letters of The Alphabet Coloring Pages

These Letters of the Alphabet Coloring Pages combine letters and pictures to help early readers & writers identify letters and letter sounds through coloring.

Each uppercase and lowercase letter incorporates a beginning sound picture to help students associate letters with sounds.

These coloring pages help reinforce uppercase and lowercase letter recognition and give students practice using fine…

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Piñata Craft ~ A Cinco de Mayo Craft for Kids

Piñata Craft ~ A Cinco de Mayo Craft for Kids

Last week, in celebration of Cinco de Mayo, we made this colorful piñata craft!  The kids worked so hard on them and I think they turned out really nice!

Materials Needed

Tissue Paper

White copy paper

Construction paper

Piñata Outline

Glue

Scissors

Directions

  Print the piñata outline on copy paper & cut out one for each student.

2. Cut small squares of tissue paper of various colors and set…

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Star of David ~ Stained-Glass Ornaments Kids Can Make!

Star of David ~ Stained-Glass Ornaments Kids Can Make!

Last week to go along with our Winter Holidays theme, we made this Star of David craft to celebrate Hanukkah.   These colorful ornaments are made out of popsicle sticks and tissue paper. Keep reading for instructions on how to make your own Star of David “stained-glass” ornaments!

  My four and five year olds seemed to really enjoy creating their stars.  The process of painting on the tissue…

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Genuis Tips for Arts and Crafts Time with Kids

Genuis Tips for Arts and Crafts Time with Kids

These genius tips from WhatupMoms will save you tons of time and headache during arts and crafts time with your kids!  Get creative with these 12 brilliant ideas, and you can sit back and relax, as common problems are solved with mess-free solutions. The video shows how to do mess free painting with toddlers, and a smart way to teach kids how to hold scissors correctly.  I also lovethe solution…

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Set Up A Classroom Technology Center with Customized Desktop Icons

Set Up A Classroom Technology Center with Customized Desktop Icons

If you have student laptops or a Smart Board in your classroom, all it takes is some basic knowledge of technology and you can create an amazing classroom technology center for your students!

Source: Google Images

Utilize the technology that is in your classroom!

To get started, find a few activities online that students can explore from the computer. I have a nice long list of educational…

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This is the world’s largest crystal ruby. Mark Mothersbaugh had the gem carved in the shape of an ice cream cone.

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“A few years ago I became friends with a gemologist, and I saw all these gems that he had lying around, one of which was this big ugly stone that I picked up. “That’s the world’s largest ruby you’re holding.” He didn’t know what to do with it, so next time I saw him I asked if I could carve it. It’s right over there. [Points across the room to a glass case.]

I was thinking: Who do you sell the world’s largest ruby to? Somebody who’s uber-rich. And people don’t get uber-rich unless there’s something dark attached to it. It’s always communists in China, or drug dealers in South America, or oil people in Russia. It’s those kinds of people who are going to want the world’s largest ruby. And I wanted to fuck with them in some way. So I said: I’m going to carve it into a turd. But it will look like a custard. I’m going set it on top of a cone, and it will look like a sweet-treat, but really it’s a turd. They’ll buy it because it’s the world’s largest ruby, but only I’ll know that it’s a turd.“ - Mark Mothersbaugh

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Creative Feminine Portraits Composed Of Flowers And Stems 

Chicago based online boutique Sister Golden is headed by a mother and daughter, Vicki and Brooke Rawlins duo who create art and decor items for the home. In the latest series, they have featured portraits composed entirely of natural elements, such as flowers, petals, leaves and stems. 

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‘Pit Bull Flower Power’ Already Found Homes For 140+ Pits (New Pics)

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I dub them ‘Pretty Pitties’

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Humpty Dumpty

I’ve compiled some of my favorite Humpty Dumpty activities here on this page.  All resources listed are free for personal use in the classroom or at home!

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Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty

Sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty

Had a great fall

All the king’s horses

And all the king’s men

Couldn’t put Humpty

Together again

Printable Poem

I created this printable poem with the…

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Snail Craft

Snail Craft

We made snails today to go along with our creepy crawlies theme.

I pre-cut the paper for the snails and drew an outline of a leaf for kids to cut out and decorate.

The idea for this activity came from here: Snail Project by ArtforYoungChildren.blogspot.com

I think they turned out very cute!  What do you think?

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Saint Patrick's Day Activities

Saint Patrick’s Day Activities

I’ve been having so much fun looking for Saint Patrick’s Day Activities to do next week.  I’ve found some really cool projects on the web.  Here are some of my favorite activities for St. Patricks Day.  You can click on any image to go to the original source.

We will start with a few saint patrick’s rainbow activities:

Then, we will make some Saint Patrick’s Day slime!

You could sing this…

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President's Day Activities

President’s Day Activities

It’s almost President’s Day which means it’s time to talk a little bit about the history of the United States.  Here are my lesson plans for the week of President’s Day.  They are aligned to the Colorado Academic Standards for ages 3-5.

  President’s and President’s Day

Monday: George Washington, ​Our First President

Objectives: ​LKS 1.1, 1.3, 1.5

Materials: ​Book: George Washington

Procedure:

1.…

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Ice Exploration Activity for PreK and Kindergarten

Ice Exploration Activity

Now that there is snow on the ground, ice is everywhere.  With icicles, ice rinks, and snow a bound,  what better time to have a little fun with some ice exploration?

The morning before I teach this lesson, I add ice to the sensory table.  This give the kids a chance to explore the ice first without the food coloring or salt. Later on, during the lesson, students explore how salt makes the ice…

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Snowmen Activities

Here are some snowmen-themed activities for Pre-K and Kindergarten.

Circle Time Activity:  How Do You Build a Snowman?

Materials:  Book: All You Need For A Snowman Snowman Pieces made out of paper with magnetic tape on the back,  Hat, Scarf, Buttons, Carrot Nose, pieces of large white chart paper.

Objectives:  Students will begin to identify and use special concepts (first/last, over/under,…

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All About Animal Tracks

All About Animal Tracks

My kids has sooo much fun making the aminal tracks in the play-doh.  And I even learned something from the book about animal tracks.  Did you know that cat tracks look like those of an animal that walks on two feet?  It is because they step with their front paws in exactaly the same place as with their back paws!  Here are my lesson plans for this activity.

Objectives: Students will identify…

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Making Patterns With Veggies

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In this lesson, students use cut vegetables to create patterns  Students not only practice making patterns, but learn about the vegetables and how they grow.

Objectives: Students will create patterns through the repetition of a unit (Colorado Standard, Math Knowledge And Skills 4.3)

Materials: Book: The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons, Real vegetables cut into stamps,…

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