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Danielle's Place of Crafts and Activities - Christian Crafts and Learning Activities for Children and Kids of all Ages. First-School Preschool Activities and Crafts. Busy Bee Kids Crafts: Fun and Easy Crafts for Kids. Make an origami cat bookmark. On You Tube I found video instructions for making a cat bookmark designed by Jo Nakashima.

Make an origami cat bookmark

So I tried it out. A couple of the steps were tricky, but I managed to prevail! I think this kitty is funny. He looks like he tried to cross the road at the wrong moment. Origami club. 1st Grade Art with Mrs. Brown. We start by reading "Little Blue and Little Yellow".

1st Grade Art with Mrs. Brown

I give each student 1 ball of red, 1 yellow, and 1 blue. Then I have them break each ball into 4 evenly sized balls. So now they have 4 reds, 4 yellows and 4 blues. All together we mix 1 blue and 1 yellow. Then 1 blue and 1 red. Page corner bookmarks. This project comes to you at the request of Twitterer @GCcapitalM.

page corner bookmarks

I used to believe that a person could never have too many books, or too many bookmarks. Then I moved into an apartment slightly larger than some people’s closets (and much smaller than many people’s garages) and all these beliefs got turned on their naïeve little heads. But what a person can always look for more of is really cool unique bookmarks. Placeholders special enough for the books that are special enough to remain in your culled-out-of-spacial-necessity collection. Page corner bookmarks are cute, practical and deeply under-represented in the world.* They’re easy to make, easy to customize, and will set you apart from all those same-same flat rectangular bookmarks. If you like this tutorial, here are a couple others that might be up your alley. For the monster-loving adults in the room, try some googly-eyed paper monster wine charms.

The Basics. Therapeutic Crafts. I’m excited to share this "Tactile Board" that my students and I made during our therapy sessions.

Therapeutic Crafts

Making it turned out to be tons of fun and an amazing multi-sensory experience! Here are the instructions for making a “tactile board”. What you will need: 1 foam board, poster board or large painting canvas Hot glue gun Finger paints, water colors or acrylic (if you use a canvas) Scraps of various types of fabric (make sure that they have a variety of textures) Lava Letters: Sizing/Line Orientation Game for Handwriting. Art Projects for Kids. Art for Children and Adults with Disabilities - Lessons Art: KinderArt ® SPECIAL ARTISTS Note: Grade levels are given as a guideline only.

Art for Children and Adults with Disabilities - Lessons Art: KinderArt ®

Lessons are always adaptable. KinderArt® features many activities and lesson plans which have proven successful with children and adults with disabilities. Mad in crafts: Dollar Store Plastic Animal Bookends. First of all, thank you so much to all of you who voted on the first round of So You Think You’re Crafty.

mad in crafts: Dollar Store Plastic Animal Bookends

Weren’t the projects fantastic? I have my work cut out for me in this competition! My animal bookends didn’t quite take first place, but I was ecstatic to see how many people liked my project the best. Milk Jug Decorative Window Crafts. Jun30 by Lindsey Boardman We’re always looking for cheap or– better yet– free materials to craft with here, so we’ve played around with crafting all sorts of things out of those big plastic gallon milk jugs over the last couple of years.

Milk Jug Decorative Window Crafts

The type of plastic they are made from is pretty versatile as far as crafting goes. The Recycling Occupational Therapist. FamilyFun Crafts, Activities, Recipes & Other Ideas for Kids & Parents and More Family Fun. Cool Drawing Apps for Primary School. So many classroom activities are only fully realised when your students add their sketches to embellish their work, or to annotate a concept.

Cool Drawing Apps for Primary School

Sometimes they just need to describe an object. Here are a series of apps that allow the creative little Picasso or Frida in your class to express themselves. Most of these are so intuitive that your students will be drawing before you know it. Drawing Pad: $1.99 AU Drawing Pad offers an incredible amount of fun and creativity as a stand alone App but we've worked extra hard to allow parents the ability to extend the fun by offering in app coloring books). Drawing Pad is an "Apple Staff Favorite" and was featured in the "Spotlight" of the App Store - Don't have an iPad yet? Doodlecast for Kids: $1.99 AU Doodlecast is a unique drawing app that records your voice as you draw.

Kid Art for iPad: $0.99 AU Kid Art is now on the iPad! ArtRage: $7.49 AU. Art Class Ideas. Artsonia. Art Teachers, You Have to See This! Art Project powered by Google is a site that I learned about from Larry Ferlazzo.

Art Teachers, You Have to See This!

If you're an art teacher, you have to go check it out! The Art Project powered by Google features interior tours of seventeen world famous art museums. Select a museum from the list on the homepage and you can virtually tour it using the same interface style you experience in Google Maps Streetview. Inside the museum just double click to zoom to a location. You can also open a floor plan overview and click on a room to navigate to that part of the museum. The best part of the Art Project powered by Google is the option to create your own artwork collection while visiting each museum. Watch the video below to learn more about the Art Project powered by Google. Fun Art 4 Kids. Instructables - Make, How To, and DIY. Announcing... K-Cup Crafts! - Entirely Smitten. I love coffee.

Announcing... K-Cup Crafts! - Entirely Smitten

More than the average person, I think. It all started about a year ago when Hubs came home with a Keurig. Since then I've been known to describe my day by how many cups; e.g. "Oh god, it's definitely gonna be a three-cupper. " Make a Cupid's Arrow Tossing Game. According to Roman mythology, Cupid, the god of love and beauty, could use his arrows to create love. Your child can take on Cupid's role by orchestrating an arrow tossing game among some friends.