Creative Teaching Press. 20+ Free Printable Calendars & Planners For 2011. If you don’t have a colour printer, or are looking for something as simple as it gets, take a look at these 10 suggestions on where you can get printable calendars online. 12 Page Calendars Noise To Signal Cartoonist Rob Cottingham is sharing a 2011 wall calendar that can be downloaded from SlideShare or his website.
Social media addicts will appreciate the humour taken from Rob’s cartoon strip, Noise to Signal. My Owl Barn My Owl Barn has released a gorgeous 12 page calendar filled with owl related images from various artists. Doodle Calendar Creative Mamma has put out a free printable Doodle Calendar for 2011. Big Huge Labs If you’d rather use your own images, Big Huge Labs make it easy to use your own pictures from Flickr, Facebook, or your computer.
Alice Cantrell Another beautifully artistic calendar can be downloaded from Alice Cantrell’s website. Blog Guide Book Blog Guide Book have an illustrated calendar available for download for free. Blue Ant Studio One Page Calendars Compact Calendar. For the Kids — Tip Junkie Printables. Non-Objective Art. This lesson is adapted from a lesson found on the Incredible Art Department website and the entire lesson may be found there. I will post my adapted version in this blog entry. I have done this lesson with second graders, but it is adaptable to all ages and skill levels. Materials Needed: * white paper- 12" X 16" (I cut the paper to this size so that it can be mounted on to colored paper with a 1" border) * tempera in various colors, including black * paint brushes * scraps of decorative paper (patterned, metallic, etc.) * spray bottles filled with liquid watercolor * paper cutter * glue Explain to students what Non-Objective Art is: "Artworks having no recognizable subject matter (not recognizable as such things as houses, trees, people, etc.)
The Decorative Process: Students paint various lines, shapes, and patterns on their white paper using various colors of tempera (no black at this point). Students glue various scraps of decorative paper at random spots on their painting. Draw! pilgrim. Kids learning crafts. Crafty Crafted Studio – Craft for Children and anything nice. Crafty Rocket Science. Craft Blogs. Best Blog Awards. Craft Projects | Home & Garden | Toys & Playthings | Cut Out. Disney Pirate Craft: The Captain's Compass | Crafts. By Cindy Littlefield Considered one of the most treasured items on the Seven Seas, Captain Jack Sparrow's Compass will do you no good when it comes to finding true north. Given to the infamous captain as a gift from Tia Dalma, it's designed, instead, to lead to what your heart wants most.
This palm-size replica is fitted with a spinnable compass needle that a young pirate can point toward the object of his own heart's desire. You'll need: 2 miniature square jewelry or craft boxes with covers (sold in large craft supply stores)* Craft knife Black acrylic paint Paintbrush Compass templatesScissors Pencil White cardstock or heavy weight paper Red marker Ruler Non-toxic gold leaf pen Glue stick Paper hole punch Brass paper fastener *The box shown here measures 3 inches diagonally from corner to corner Instructions: 2. 3. 5. 6. See All Pirates of the Caribbean Crafts & Recipes Click here to set sail on an epic voyage to the officialPirates of the Caribbean website. Skewer spinning top « Julie K in Taiwan. Jaylene has been delighting in rainbows these days and that was the theme of her spinning top. Take two different shaped cardboard circles, paint them up, glue them together and poke a skewer through them.
Then spin away. What would you paint on your spinning top to represent you right now? Like this: Be the first to like this. Kleas: simple wooden tops. We made these simple wooden tops at the preschool earlier this month. With wooden wheels, wooden dowels, a pencil sharpener, paint and sandpaper this sweet toy can be made in less than ten minutes. pre-cut the wooden dowels into about three-inch sticks (make sure the dowel fits snugly in the hole on the wheel!) Give the wheel an acrylic paint wash (water down the paint to just lightly stain the wood the color of choice)while the wheel is drying, use a pencil sharpener to sharpen one of the ends of the dowel into a point use sandpaper to smooth out any rough spotslightly hammer the dowel into the wheel-no glue necessarythen spin, spin, spin I loved all the little hands busy with the sandpaper.
Learning how to spin the top can be quite a challenge for some, but with practice they had the tops going well into the afternoon. CD Spinners. Got some spare CDs around? If so, you can easily make these fun CD spinners. To make the colored tops, we traced out a CD on a sheet of paper and colored them in. The lines don't have the be complete -- in fact, it is more fun watching them "connect" as they spin.
We hot glued the sheet onto the CD, along with a handle (packaging foam) on top, and a marble underneath. Zee had the idea of wrapping a string around the knob, then pulling it off, to get a super fast spin. We tried out different color patterns and designs to see how they would look when spun. I love making inexpensive toys from objects found around the house. 33 Jumping Cups. Saturday, 12 September 2009 by Irene Hoofs Jumping Cup Handmade Toy by Kristen Sutcliffe from New House Project Make a simple toy using cups and rubber bands. I made a flying rocket and a jumping frog, but there are lots of other possibilities with this project.
What you'll need:*2 disposable cups (paper or plastic will both work)*2 rubber bands*scissors*different colors of paper scraps*double-sided tape*clear tape Step one:Use different scraps of paper, and cut out the shapes that you will need to decorate your cup as a flying rocket (or jumping frog, rabbit, kangaroo, etc.)Step two:Cut both rubber bands so that they are no longer circles. Step four:Use double-sided tape to decorate your rubber band cup and turn it into a rocket ship. ..New House Project.. Creativity Prompt: A Blog Designed to Boost Your Creativity. Archives. My Paper Crane. The Crafty Crow: 6 - 12 years old.